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Born: 11 August 1891 Died: 25 September 1959
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AFI's Female Legends Nominations
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Published 11 years, 4 months ago 
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My Favorite Movie Stars
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Published 11 years, 1 month ago
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Helen Broderick 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 I
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2. Swing Time
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3. Stage Door Canteen (1943)
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