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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 ...
Actress Helen Menken was arrested with Mae West, married Humphrey Bogart, and produced the Stage Door Canteen in World War II. Death of Helen Menken, notorious and accomplished actress | Jewish Women's Archive
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Dec 24, 2015 · Published: Dec. 24, 2015, 9:08 a.m. By. Douglas Perry | The Oregonian/OregonLive. Everyone loved Helen Menken. Everyone except Menken herself. In the early 1920s, people gasped in awe when they...
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...
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.
- December 12, 1901
- March 27, 1966
In Brief. Actress and producer Helen Menken made her Broadway debut in 1917. She took on a variety of roles throughout the 1920s and 1930s and became known for playing a lesbian in The Captive, for which she was arrested during a performance, and her role as Elizabeth I in Mary of Scotland. In 1933 she began producing plays.
Nov 7, 2021 · Helen Menken: So Much More Than Humphrey Bogart’s Wife | Dametown. When you think of Humphrey Bogart’s wife, you think of Lauren Bacall, right? Well, she’s plenty dame-y, but Bogie’s first wife (Lauren was his fourth) is just as dame-tastic herself. Maybe more so.
