Helen Broderick
Nacimiento : 1891-08-11, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Muerte : 1959-09-25
Historia
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 comedy was discovered quite by accident. In 1911, she was understudy to the actress Ina Claire in the Broadway play 'Jumping Jupiter'. One night, Claire was unable to perform and Helen Broderick stood in as the romantic lead. She soon had the audience in stitches, trampling about the stage like an elephant, rolling her big saucer eyes and attempting to croon 'Cuddle Near Me All Day Long' in her rather unique voice. The romance was no more and instead turned into a popular farce with Helen now permanently installed in the lead role. For a while, Helen partnered her husband, Lester Crawford, in vaudeville. In the 1920's, she enjoyed success on Broadway, most notably in 'Fifty Million Frenchmen' ( a role she took to Hollywood in 1931). Her best parts in the movies were as the perennial friend or chaperone of the heroine (an earlier Eve Arden), delivering acidic wisecracks in her inimitable dead-pan manner. She was particularly amusing in Top Hat (1935) and Swing Time (1936) with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; and in The Rage of Paris (1938) with Danielle Darrieux.
Nora
Tras una brillante temporada en Broadway, el famoso actor John Sheridan se dispone a estrenar una nueva obra del escritor Paul Taylor. Kim Walker, una aspirante a actriz que trabaja como camarera, consigue que el actor le firme un autógrado, aunque lo que realmente ha firmado es una carta de recomendación dirigida al productor. Pero Taylor no está de acuerdo y se resiste a confiar el papel de la protagonista a una desconocida. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mary Riley
A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him.
Irma
Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his wife, Fay Bainter, to enter the workplace. The couple's daughter, Marjorie Reynolds, shows up with her twin babies in tow. Son Arthur Lake arrives with his pregnant wife (Jeff Donnell). And overbearing maiden aunt Helen Broderick also decides to move in. Because his wife is away at work, poor old Charlie Ruggles is not only housekeeper, but nursemaid and servant as well.
Mrs. Winthrop
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
Glory Marlow Sr.
El hijo de un estricto oficial de la Marina se enamora de la hija de una estrella del musical.
Helen Broderick
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Dakota (Terry), un soldado que está de permiso en Nueva York, visita la famosa Stage Door Canteen (título original del film), un local de Broadway donde célebres artistas entretenían a los soldados que volvían del frente. Dakota y sus amigos, Tex (Sunset Carson) y California (Lon McAllister), caen rendidos ante los encantos de Eileen (Cheryl Walker), Jean (Marjorie Riordan) y Ella Sue (Margaret Early). Artistas del calibre de Katharine Hepburn, Merle Oberon, George Raft, Johnny Weismuller, Ralph Bellamy o Harpo Marx llenan el local, en el que actúan las bandas de Xavier Cugat, Count Basie y Benny Goodman.
Aunt Julie
Una actriz famosa tiene que ganarse a una familia ya hecha cuando se casa con un magnate naviero.
Cora Foster
Con la ayuda de su ama de llaves, el viudo profesor Oliver Wendell se ocupa de la educación de sus tres hijas. Dana, una de ellas, tiene la impresión de que su novio se interesa más por su coche que por ella, por lo que pone sus ojos en un compañero de negocios de su padre, el atractivo Richard Calvert, comprendiendo que ha llegado el momento de dar el paso de niña a mujer y tomar una decisión definitiva...
Theo Clairmont
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray.
Mrs. Susan Smith
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?
Nancy Crocker
Because of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody finds lodging at a retirement home, but as only single women are allowed, the Captain has to make other arrangements. However, after witnessing their tearful goodbye, the home's residents vote to allow the couple to move in together. The Captain is a reluctant lodger, uncomfortable at being surrounded by so much femininity, and bristles when his pals start referring to him as "Old Lady". The time has come for Captain Peabody to reassert his manhood!
Lorna "Smitty" Smith
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
Aunt Martha Hogan
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
Amanda Griffith
En 1840, un rico empresario del ferrocarril contrata a un hombre para investigar una ruta por la que cree se están transportando esclavos.
Pearl
Glamorous and efficient Helen Murphy runs a service that will provide any type of assistance to wealthy customers, but what she's really looking for is a man who can take care of himself.
Aunt Minerva
An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
Gloria Patterson
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
Gertie
A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly under his own name. Comedy.
Aunt Jane
The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but Carol insists on getting a job.
Pauline
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
Emma Foster
A small town Ohio barber accompanies his ditzy wife to Atlantic City, where she competes in the Happy Noodle Company's Mrs. America Contest.
Agnes Dean
A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.
Gwen
A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.
Mabel Anderson
John "Lucky" Garnett (Fred Astaire) es un destacado bailarín que llega tarde a su boda con Margaret Watson (Betty Furness). El padre de esta le reta a que vuelva a pedir la mano de su hija cuando haya ganado la astronómica cantidad de 25.000 dólares. Para ello John se traslada a Nueva York, en compaía de su amigo Everett "Pop" Cardetti (Victor Moore), donde conoce a Penélope "Penny" Carroll (Ginger Rogers). La relación entre ambos se irá estrechando hasta el nivel de que acabarán enamorándose.
Mattie Dodson
Una pareja decide casarse y tratar de mantener sus respectivos trabajos. El equilibrio es precario, y un millonario anda enredando en su felicidad. Simpática comedia con la pizpireta Barba Stanwyck.
Hildegarde Withers
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.
Aunt Charlotte
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.
Mrs. Freeda McCrary
An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.
Madge Hardwick
Jerry Travers, un astro de la comedia musical americana, llega a Londres y se instala en la habitación del productor de su obra, Horace Hardwick. El azar le hace conocer a la bella modelo Dale Tremont, que se aloja en la habitación de abajo. Ella le toma, erróneamente, por Hardwick y, al enterarse que está casado (en realidad, y aunque no lo sabe, con una amiga suya, Madge), le rechaza y viaja con su jefe, el modisto Alberto Beddini, a Venecia, donde, por despecho, se casará con él.
Violet
In this comedy, two men make an extravagant $50,000 dollar bet that one of them will be able to successfully court a lovely woman with out spending any money. To foil his scheme, the other bettor hires two henchman to stop him.
