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Helen Freeman is a Actor American born on 2 august 1886

Helen Freeman

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Nationality USA
Birth 2 august 1886
Death 25 december 1960 (at 74 years)

Helen Freeman est une actrice américaine, née le 3 août 1886 à Saint-Louis (Missouri), morte le 25 décembre 1960 à Los Angeles (Californie).

Biography

Helen Freeman entame au théâtre sa carrière d'actrice et joue notamment à Broadway (New York) dans vingt-quatre pièces, la première en 1908 (Jack Straw de William Somerset Maugham, avec Mary Boland), la dernière en 1934.

Entretemps, citons Sherlock Holmes de William Gillette (1915, avec l'auteur dans le rôle-titre), La Sonate des spectres d'August Strindberg (1923, avec Walter Abel), Amour pour amour de William Congreve (1925, avec Walter Abel et Edgar Stehli), Becky Sharp (adaptation de La Foire aux vanités de William Makepeace Thackeray, 1929, avec Ernest Cossart et Basil Sydney), ou encore Le Roman de Marguerite Gautier (adaptation de La Dame aux camélias d'Alexandre Dumas fils, 1932, avec Lillian Gish dans le rôle-titre).

Toujours à Broadway, elle apparaît aussi dans l'opérette Patience d'Arthur Sullivan et William S. Gilbert (1924-1925, avec Edgar Stehli).

Au cinéma, Helen Freeman débute dans deux films muets sortis en 1915, dont The Morals of Marcus d'Edwin S. Porter et Hugh Ford (avec Marie Doro).

Elle ne revient à l'écran qu'après le passage au parlant, interprétant d'abord Nancy Hanks Lincoln dans Abraham Lincoln de D. W. Griffith (1930, avec Walter Huston dans le rôle-titre). Suivent trente-cinq autres films américains, le dernier étant Les Amours de Carmen de Charles Vidor (1948, avec Rita Hayworth et Glenn Ford).

Dans l'intervalle, mentionnons Le Cantique des cantiques de Rouben Mamoulian (1933, avec Marlène Dietrich et Brian Aherne), Nana de Dorothy Arzner et George Fitzmaurice (1934, avec Anna Sten et Lionel Atwill), Impétueuse jeunesse de Clarence Brown (1935, avec Lionel Barrymore et Eric Linden), Mademoiselle Fifi de Robert Wise (1944, avec Simone Simon et Kurt Kreuger), ainsi que L'Intrigante de Saratoga de Sam Wood (1945, avec Ingrid Bergman et Gary Cooper).

Usually with

Sam Wood
Sam Wood
(4 films)
Max Steiner
Max Steiner
(5 films)
Reginald Owen
Reginald Owen
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Helen Freeman (33 films)

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Actress

The Loves of Carmen, 1h39
Directed by Charles Vidor, Earl Bellamy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Bullfighting films
Actors Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Victor Jory, Luther Adler, Margaret Wycherly, Ron Randell
Roles Une marchande
Rating61% 3.052983.052983.052983.052983.05298
Following the plot of the classic opera, "Carmen," this story follows the wild gypsy's adventures as a siren and bandit. Carmen (Rita Hayworth) lures an innocent soldier (Glenn Ford) to his ruin, getting him expelled from the army. He then turns to banditry, killing Carmen's husband (Victor Jory) and others. The drama culminates in an ending with the innocent soldier repenting of his sins and dying.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, 1h44
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best, Natalie Wood, Isobel Elsom
Roles Author Displaced by Lucy (uncredited)
Rating77% 3.897263.897263.897263.897263.89726
In the early 1900s, young widow Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) moves to the seaside English village of Whitecliff despite the fierce disapproval of her mother-in-law and sister-in-law. Despite its reputation of being haunted, she falls in love with and rents Gull Cottage, where she takes up residence with her young daughter Anna (Natalie Wood) and her maid Martha (Edna Best). On the first night, she is visited by the ghostly apparition of the former owner, a roguish but harmless sea captain named Daniel Gregg (Rex Harrison), who reluctantly agrees to allow her to live in Gull Cottage and promises to make himself known only to her (Anna is too young for ghosts). Despite a few differences and disagreements with Captain Gregg, Mrs. Muir and her household settle comfortably into Gull Cottage. However, it is not long before Mrs. Muir's in-laws arrive with the news that Lucy's investment income has dried up, and they insist that Lucy move back to London with them. After his ghostly eviction of the in-laws, Captain Gregg comes up with an idea to save the house: he will dictate his memoirs to her and she will have them published, with the royalties going to her. During the course of writing the book, they find themselves falling in love, but as both realize it is a hopeless situation, Daniel tells her she should find a real (live) man.
The Late George Apley, 1h36
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ronald Colman, Peggy Cummins, Vanessa Brown, Richard Haydn, Richard Neill, Charles Russell
Roles Lydia
Rating68% 3.442763.442763.442763.442763.44276
George Apley (Ronald Colman) is a stuffy, self-satisfied member of Boston's upper class, supremely confident of the superiority of his hometown. However, his comfortable, predictable world is overturned when he learns, to his horror, that both his son and his daughter have fallen in love with non-Bostonians. However, he is eventually brought around to see reason.
Monsieur Beaucaire, 1h33
Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield, Patric Knowles, Marjorie Reynolds, Cecil Kellaway, Joseph Schildkraut
Roles Reine d'Espagne
Rating66% 3.3416153.3416153.3416153.3416153.341615
King Louis XV of France is invited by his rival King Philip V of Spain to choose a suitable husband for Philip's daughter, Princess Maria, as a gesture of unity between their two nations. Louis's choice is Duc le Chandre, but the duke fancies Madame Pompadour, as does the king.
The Unknown, 1h10
Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Karen Morley, Jim Bannon, Jeff Donnell, Mark Roberts, Robert Wilcox, Barton Yarborough
Roles Phoebe Martin
Rating60% 3.047773.047773.047773.047773.04777
Relatives arrive for the reading of a will at a creepy mansion. Is someone is trying to murder amnesiac Nina Arnold (Jeff Donnell) to claim a share of her grandmother's legacy? Could that someone be her emotionally unstable mother Rachel Martin (Karen Morley)? Investigators Jack Packard (Jim Bannon) and Doc Long (Barton Yarborough) are put on the case.
So Dark the Night, 1h11
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Steven Geray, Eugene Borden, Micheline Cheirel, Egon Brecher, Nanette Bordeaux, Helen Freeman
Roles Widow Bridelle
Rating62% 3.1464353.1464353.1464353.1464353.146435
So Dark the Night is the story of a detective, Henri Cassin (Steven Geray) from Paris, who falls in love with an innkeeper's daughter Nanette (Micheline Cheirel) while on a long overdue vacation. She is a country girl with a jealous boyfriend. Nonetheless, the detective becomes engaged to her. Then the girl vanishes the night of her engagement party and later shows up dead. Cassin believes that the obvious suspect is Leon (Paul Marion), the old boyfriend, but soon he is also found killed. Soon after Mama (Ann Codee) receives a warning that she will be the next to die, she is found strangled.
Saratoga Trunk, 2h15
Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance, Western
Actors Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Flora Robson, Florence Bates, Curt Bois, John Warburton
Roles Mrs. Nicholas Dulaine (uncredited)
Rating63% 3.1962353.1962353.1962353.1962353.196235
In 1875, Clio Dulaine (Ingrid Bergman), the illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic New Orleans Creole father and a light-skinned Creole woman of color who was his placée, returns from Paris to her birthplace in Rampart Street to avenge her mother's mistreatment at the hands of her father's family, the Dulaines. Years ago, Clio's mother accidentally killed Dulaine when he tried to prevent her from committing suicide, and the scandalized Dulaines then exiled Clio and her mother to Paris. Clio is accompanied by her Haitian maid, Angelique (Flora Robson), and her dwarf manservant, Cupidon (Jerry Austin).
Mrs. Parkington, 2h4
Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Dan Duryea, Tom Drake, Agnes Moorehead
Roles Helen Parkington Stilham
Rating69% 3.4934753.4934753.4934753.4934753.493475
Susie Parkington (Greer Garson), an elderly society matron, is surrounded by her many relatives at her stately home at Christmastime in 1938, with the exception of her beloved great-granddaughter Jane (Frances Rafferty). When Jane does appear she informs her great-grandmother that she plans to elope with Ned Talbot (Tom Drake), her father's employee, who wishes to take her away from her family and their way of life. Susie arranges a meeting with Ned, where he reveals that Jane's father Amory (Edward Arnold) is being questioned for fraud and he planned to take Jane away in order to hide her from the truth. Susie sends Ned away, telling Jane to forget about him, and after hearing her grandson-in-law's side of the story makes the decision to ask her heirs to pay off Amory's debts with a loan ($31 million), much to her family's disgust, as it will mean that they may lose their inheritance.
The Heavenly Body, 1h35
Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Arthur Hornblow Jr., Alexander Hall, Harry Kurnitz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, James Craig, Fay Bainter, Henry O'Neill, Spring Byington
Roles Stella
Rating60% 3.0487753.0487753.0487753.0487753.048775
A neglected wife turns to an astrologer, who tells her she will meet and fall in love with a handsome stranger, much to the dismay of her astronomer husband.
Mademoiselle Fifi, 1h9
Directed by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Simone Simon, John Emery, Kurt Kreuger, Alan Napier, Helen Freeman, Jason Robards Sr.
Roles The Countess de Breville
Rating62% 3.14683.14683.14683.14683.1468
In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, a beautiful young laundress, Elizabeth Rousset (Simone Simon), shares a stage coach ride from Rouen with a group of condescending nobles and businessmen and their wives, a political firebrand named Jean Cornudet (John Emery) and a young priest on his way to his new assignment (Edmund Glover). When they stop for the night at a village controlled by Prussian Lieutenant von Eyrick, known to his fellow officers as "Mademoiselle Fifi" (Kurt Kreuger), their coach is held up until the laundress agrees to "dine" with the lieutenant. Unlike her social betters, who have all fraternized with the enemy, and had them as guests in their homes, Elizabeth is a simple patriot, and will not eat or consort with the invaders of her country, so the coach cannot go on. The group finally convinces her that it would be best for France for them to get on with their business, and she concedes. While she is closeted with the arrogant Prussian, whose aim is to humiliate and degrade her, the rest of the travellers celebrate their deliverance by getting drunk on champagne, and following the progress of the evening's encounter through the sounds coming from inside.
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, 1h21
Directed by Lewis Allen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Gail Russell, Diana Lynn, Charles Ruggles, Dorothy Gish, Beulah Bondi, James Brown
Roles Mrs. Smithers (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.330913.330913.330913.330913.33091
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back, 1h4
Directed by Louis King
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors John Barrymore, John Howard, Reginald Denny, E. E. Clive, J. Carrol Naish, Helen Freeman
Roles Irena Soldanis
Rating59% 2.952652.952652.952652.952652.95265
Phyllis Clavering (Louise Campbell), the girlfriend of Captain Drummond (John Howard) is kidnapped by an enemy of Drummond, wanted for murder Mikhail Valdin (J. Carroll Naish) and his sister, Erena Soldanis (Helen Freeman), who are seeking revenge, but Drummond and his friend Colonel Nielsen (John Barrymore) are hot on his trail.