Personal Info
Helen Broderick
Acting
Biography
Helen Broderick (August 11, 1891 - September 25, 1959) was a wonderfully funny character comedienne with vaudeville and stage experience, a close friend of Jeanne Eagels. The story goes, that at the age of 14 she ran away from home, because her mother, who appeared in operatic comedy, was totally obsessed by the theatre. Paradoxically, all the people she met turned out to be performers, and Helen (who needed to make a living, after all) ended up where she hadn't wanted to end up - on the stage.
She started out as a chorus girl in the first Ziegfeld Follies in 1907. Her talent for comed…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Because of Him
as Nora
Love, Honor and Goodbye
as Mary Riley
Chip Off the Old Block
as Glory Marlow Sr.
3 Is a Family
as Irma
Her Primitive Man
as Mrs. Winthrop
Stage Door Canteen
as Helen Broderick
Virginia
as Theo Clairmont
Father Takes a Wife
as Aunt Julie
Nice Girl?
as Cora Foster
No, No, Nanette
as Mrs. Susan Smith