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Helen Menken (née Meinken; December 12, 1901 – March 27, 1966) was an American stage actress.
She was posthumously awarded with the Wing’s most prestigious honor: a Tony, the highest accolade one can earn in New York theatre. Actress Helen Menken was arrested with Mae West, married Humphrey Bogart, and produced the Stage Door Canteen in World War II.
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...
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.
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 (December 12, 1901 – March 27, 1966) was an American actress. She did some movies but was known mostly for stage plays. She began acting on Broadway around 1917. She was very active from the 1920s to the early 1940s.
Helen Menken. (1901—1966) Quick Reference. (1901–66), actress. Only five years old when she made her debut as a fairy in a 1906 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the attractive New Yorker continued her career ... From: Menken, Helen in The Oxford Companion to American Theatre » Subjects: Performing arts — Theatre.
Some sources credit Menken as the creator/producer of Stage Door Canteen on CBS-Radio (1942-1945). It is known that she helped found the Stage Door Canteen in Hollywood during WWII. She also was chairman and president of The American Theatre Wing.
Menken, Helen (1901–1966) American stage and radio actress. Born Dec 12, 1901, in New York, NY; died Mar 27, 1966, in New York, NY; m. Humphrey Bogart (actor, div.); m. Dr. Henry T. Smith (div.); m. George N. Richard.
Helen Menken first appeared at Elitch during the summer of 1922. Following the season, she was cast in the Broadway long-running play, Seventh Heaven. John Mulvihill had contacted her prior to the 1924 season and had invited her back to perform in some of the plays.
