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She married Humphrey Bogart on May 20, 1926. At the height of her career in 1926, she appeared with John Barrymore in The Captive, where Menken portrayed a woman who abandons her husband to take up with a female lover.
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 1926, at the height of her career, she engaged in a controversial and daring role, the lesbian Irene De Montcel in The Captive. The New York police raided a performance, arrested Menken, and closed down the production.
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.
Dec 24, 2015 · Menken's rise to fame, which included a pivotal appearance in Portland on Christmas Eve 95 years ago today, fascinated her public almost as much as her performances on stage. She was born in...
Bogart had been married to actresses Helen Menken and Mary Philips before marrying Methot, and blamed his previous divorces on his wives' careers and their long separations.
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Helen Menken, the actress, collapsed and died last night at The Lambs, 128 West 44th Street. She was 64 years old.
