Helen Mack

Helen Mack

Рождение : 1913-11-13, Rock Island, Illinois, United States

Смерть : 1986-08-13

История

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Helen Mack (November 12, 1913 – August 13, 1986) was an American actress. Mack started her career as a child actress in silent films, moving on to Broadway plays, and touring the vaudeville circuit. Her greater success as an actress was as a leading lady in the 1930s. Eventually Mack transitioned into performing on radio, and then into writing, directing, and producing some of the best known radio shows during the Golden Age of Radio. Later in life, Mack billed herself as a professional writer, writing for Broadway, stage, and television. Her career spanned the infancy of the motion picture industry, the beginnings of Broadway, the final days of Vaudeville, the transition to "talking pictures", the Golden Age of Radio, and the rise of television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Mack, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.   

Профиль

Helen Mack
Helen Mack

Фильмы

Divorce
Martha Phillips
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
Strange Holiday
Miss Sims, Secretary
An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.
Сейчас и завтра
Angeletta Gallo
Богатая наследница Эмили Блэйр страдает потерей слуха после того, как много лет назад переболела менингитом. Из-за недуга она даже была вынуждена отказаться от свадьбы с Джеффом Стоддардом, потому что не хотела быть ему обузой. После длительного путешествия в поисках лекарства от глухоты она возвращается в родной город Блэйртаун. Эмили не знает, что за время её отсутствия её жених Джефф и её младшая сестра Дженис полюбили друг друга. Джефф не хочет рассказывать Эмили о своих новых отношениях, испытывая жалость к ней. По приглашению лечащего врача Эмили в Блэйртаун приезжает доктор Мерек Вэнс, который вырос в этом городе в бедном районе...
Power Dive
Betty Coles
The story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary all-plastic airplane. Ace flyboy Brad Farrell (Richard Arlen) is determined to prove the practicality of the new aircraft, designed by Professor Blake (Thomas Ross), father of Brad's sweetheart Carol (Jean Parker). Back on solid ground, Brad must vie for Carol's attentions with his own brother, engineer Doug Farrell (Don Castle).
Girls of the Road
Mickey
A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.
Его девушка Пятница
Mollie Malloy
Уолтер Берне — главный редактор газеты, Хильди Джонсон — его бывшая жена и лучший репортер. Она приходит сообщить Уолтеру, что выходит замуж и покидает газету. Прожженный циник, тот все еще любит Хильди, да и лучшего сотрудника терять не хочет, поэтому он дает ей последнее задание — взять интервью у приговоренного к смерти Мерфи. Это будет ее лучший репортаж, вершина карьеры.
Calling All Marines
Judy Fox
Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome home Judy's brother, Marine Sergeant Marvin Fox.
Mystery of the White Room
Carole Dale
A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
Gambling Ship
Mollie Riley
A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage.
Secrets of a Nurse
Nurse Katherine 'Mack' MacDonald
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
I Stand Accused
Alison Cooper
Fred, a young lawyer fresh out of school, climbs quickly to success as the mouthpiece for a gangland mob. His friend Paul, however, reaches equally quick success - in the district attorney's office. Inevitably, they meet on opposite sides of the courtroom.
King of the Newsboys
Mary Ellen Stephens
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.
The Wrong Road
Ruth Holden
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
Fit for a King
Jane Hamilton / Princess Helen
Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince.
Последний поезд из Мадрида
Lola
История семи человек: их жизни и любовных отношений в Мадриде во время гражданской войны.
You Can't Buy Luck
Betty McKay
When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
I Promise to Pay
Mary Lang
A man goes to a loan shark to finance his family's vacation.
The Milky Way
Mae Sullivan
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.
The Return Of Peter Grimm
Catherine
The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong.
Она
Tanya Dugmore
Умирающий отец Лео Винсея просит сына отправиться на поиски нового химического элемента, который, считается, способен даровать бессмертие. Пятьсот лет назад предок Лео по имени Джон нашёл его в заброшенном городе на Крайнем Севере. Лео снаряжает экспедицию. После многочисленных приключений путешественники находят затерянный город, расположенный подо льдом. Там они встречают жестокую и властную королеву Аишу. Она утверждает, что Лео — реинкарнация Джона, в которого когда-то была сильно влюблена. Все эти годы она ждала, что он вернётся к ней, и теперь не намерена отпускать Лео из своего города…
Four Hours to Kill!
Helen
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
Captain Hurricane
Susan 'Matey' Ann
Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain Hurricane." Brewster is smitten with neighbor Abbie Howland, but she doesn't like his temperament. After a period of retirement, a bad investment puts Brewster back at work on the sea. And when fire overtakes his ship, Hurricane proves heroic, selflessly rescuing his crew from a grisly and deadly fate.
College Rhythm
June Cort
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After graduation they carry their their feud and collegiate ideas over into the department store business.
The Lemon Drop Kid
Alice Deering
The Lemon Drop Kid is a fast-talking racetrack bum who swindles $100 from an old, ailing man. He takes it on the lam with his sidekick, The Professor.
You Belong to Me
Florette Faxon
When vaudeville performer Florette Faxon is left penniless with her six-year-old son Jimmy, she relies on the friendship of fellow performer Bud Hannigan to help her get a job. Bud is reluctant to become her partner, as he has proven to himself to be unreliable in relationships, but he tells her to call him whenever she needs help. While working in a beer garden, Florette meets Hap Stanley, an avaricious performer who marries her to get the rights to perform her show routine. Hap dislikes Jimmy and eventually convinces Florette to send him away to school. Both Jimmy and Florette are broken-up over being apart, but Jimmy pretends it is what he wants so Florette can be happy with Hap.
Kiss and Make-Up
Anne
Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the effects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, and wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher... after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.
All of Me
Eve Haron
A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.
Сын Кинг Конга
Hilda Peterson
История начинается спустя приблизительно месяц после драматического финала предыдущего фильма и повествует о дальнейших приключениями режиссера Карла Денхема, который вовлечен в многочисленные судебные процессы после разрушений, вызванных Конгом. Денхем с Капитаном Энглхорном, который уверен, что это — только вопрос времени прежде, чем они разбогатеют, оставляют Нью-Йорк. Они занимаются не очень успешным бизнесом — перевозят груз на восток. В голландском порту Da Kang, они сталкиваются с прежним шкипером, который продал Денхаму карту Острова Черепа, который говорит им, что на острове есть сокровище. Ослепленные мыслью о богатстве, они верят ему. Фактически, он им лжет, для того чтобы они взяли его с собой, потомучто он только что убил человека и ему нужно смыться.
Fargo Express
Helen Clark
When Mort loses his and Ken's money at poker, Goss gets him to rob the stage. He is captured, identified by his palomino horse. Ken tries to clear him by robbing a stage while riding a palomino, but he also gets caught.
Christopher Bean
Susan Haggett
When the painter Christopher Bean dies, some unscrupulous art dealers try to get several of his paintings cheaply from a family who have no idea of their value.
Blind Adventure
Rose Thorne
Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they try to unravel the mystery, enlisting the aid of a cat burglar named Holmes, who they bump into along the way.
Melody Cruise
Laurie Marlowe
A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.
Sweepings
Mamie Donahue
Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude.
The California Trail
Dolores Ramirez
Santa Fe Stuart, leading a relief train bringing food to the peasants, gets caught up in the Commandante and his brother the Mayor's effort to starve out the peasants. Thrown in jail and about to be hung, he escapes and joins the peasants in their fight against the brothers and their troops...
While Paris Sleeps
Manon Costaud
To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.
The Silent Witness
Sylvia Pierce
A London nobleman (Lionel Atwill) takes the blame and stands trial after his son strangles a lover (Greta Nissen).
The Struggle
A Catty Girl
A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.
Under the Red Robe
(uncredited)
Under the Red Robe is a 1923 silent historical drama directed by Alan Crosland based upon the Stanley Weyman novel Under the Red Robe. The film marks the last motion picture appearance by stage actor Robert B. Mantell who plays Cardinal Richelieu and the only silent screen performance of opera singer John Charles Thomas.
Zaza
Lucille Dufresne
Zaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her. But during one performance, while Zaza is singing on a swing, her rival cuts the rope and she falls. Zaza is badly injured and she makes Dufresne's acquaintance. A romance quickly springs up and he installs her in a villa. Their happiness is marred, however, when his wife appears.
Success
Ruth (as Helen Macks)
The often-told film story of a drunken actor hitting the skids, making a comeback, and helping his grown daughter in the bargain.