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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: 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 ...
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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 ...
Nov 7, 2021 · Humphrey’s third wife, actress Mayo Methot, was known for being quite the brawler. His affectionate nickname for Mayo was “ Sluggy ”.) After Three Wise Fools, Helen played the lead, Cassie, a “good girl” drifting into depravity while traveling abroad in a melodrama called, funnily enough, Drifting. The play also had 21-year-old ...
Dec 24, 2015 · In 1926, the beautiful and earthy Menken, who had just married a struggling young actor named Humphrey Bogart, was poised to become the greatest and best-known actress of her generation.
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.
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 ...
