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    A dispute when the troupe was in Dallas led to her walking out and joining a Shakespearean company that was also in Dallas. [5] Billed as Helen Meinken, Menken acted in 1915 in Brooklyn [6] and in 1916 with the Orpheum Players in Reading, Pennsylvania. [7] She made her Broadway theatre debut as a teenage actress in Parlor, Bedroom and Bath ...

  2. Dec 24, 2015 · Helen started going to auditions when she was 5 years old. The next year, she appeared in Portland for the first time, playing a faerie in a touring production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

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  4. March 28, 1966. Helen Menken with Basil Rathbone in the notorious production of "The Captive" in 1926. Helen Menken was born to be a star. Her rapid rise through the ranks of prominent actresses began at an early age: within two years of her debut in Humpty Dumpty at the age of three, she was playing Peaseblossom in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer ...

  5. Nov 7, 2021 · In the Roaring Twenties, Helen Menken was the queen of Broadway; “people gasped in awe when they spotted her on the streets of New York.”. Though considered one of the greatest and most charismatic actresses of her time, in 1926 she married a struggling nobody, an actor named Humphrey Bogart. While “Bogie” would one day become one of ...

  6. Helen Menken. Actress: Stage Door Canteen. Helen Menken was born in New York to deaf parents. Her original name was Meinken, her New York-born father Frederick being of French/German extraction. Her mother, Mary Madden, was Irish-born. She married Humphrey Bogart at the Gramercy Park Hotel on May 20, 1926, four years after taking out a marriage license in New York City. It was the first ...

    • December 12, 1901
    • March 27, 1966
  7. Helen Menken. Date of Death: March 27, 1966. Birth Place: New York, NY, USA. Latest News on Helen Menken: Mae West Drag Show Puts Queer Legacy On Trial in Experimental Theater Debut in A JURY OF ...

  8. Helen Menken, the actress, collapsed and died last night at The Lambs, 128 West 44th Street. She was 64 years old. Miss Menken, who had been in ill health and in semi-retirement for several years ...

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