Helen Broderick Trailers
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Helen Broderick (August 11, 1891 - September 25, 1959) was a wonderfully funny character comedienne with vaudeville and stage experience, a close friend of Jeanne Eagels. The story goes, that at the age of 14 she ran away from home, because her mother, who appeared in operatic comedy, was totally obsessed by the theatre. Paradoxically, all the people she met turned out to be performers, and Helen (who needed to make a living, after all) ended up where she hadn't wanted to end up - on the stage.
She started out as a chorus girl in the first Ziegfeld Follies in 1907. Her talent for comedy was discovered quite by accident. In 1911, she was understudy to the actress Ina Claire in the Broadway play 'Jumping Jupiter'. One night, Claire was unable to perform and Helen Broderick stood in as the romantic lead. She soon had the audience in stitches, trampling about the stage like an elephant, rolling her big saucer eyes and attempting to croon 'Cuddle Near Me All Day Long' in her rather unique voice. The romance was no more and instead turned into a popular farce with Helen now permanently installed in the lead role. For a while, Helen partnered her husband, Lester Crawford, in vaudeville. In the 1920's, she enjoyed success on Broadway, most notably in 'Fifty Million Frenchmen' ( a role she took to Hollywood in 1931). Her best parts in the movies were as the perennial friend or chaperone of the heroine (an earlier Eve Arden), delivering acidic wisecracks in her inimitable dead-pan manner. She was particularly amusing in Top Hat (1935) and Swing Time (1936) with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; and in The Rage of Paris (1938) with Danielle Darrieux.
Most Popular Helen Broderick Trailers
Total trailers found: 31
23 November 1944
Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his wife, Fay Bainter, to enter the workplace.
23 November 1935
An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.
01 February 1944
The son of a strict Navy officer falls for the daughter of a musical-comedy star.
21 February 1941
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane.
01 August 1938
An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
18 January 1946
A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star.
11 February 1938
A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly under his own name.
29 May 1944
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
06 March 1936
An aspiring theater producer convinces his wealthy uncle to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play’s far-fetched plot: making a cross-country trip with no money.
15 September 1945
A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him.
29 August 1935
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below.
17 April 1936
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper presumes her death was accidental, until his friend, amateur detective Hildegarde Withers, locates Violet’s horse and discovers it is streaked with blood.
23 June 1939
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset.
12 February 1937
A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.
28 August 1936
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her.
24 June 1943
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of theatre and film appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war.
03 October 1941
A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate.
31 December 1937
The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away.
19 December 1940
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations.
04 June 1937
A small town Ohio barber accompanies his ditzy wife to Atlantic City, where she competes in the Happy Noodle Company's Mrs.
09 June 1938
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband.
29 September 1939
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent.
10 July 1936
Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But part of the marriage arrangement requires that Carolyn quit her $50-per-week modeling job to be a full-time housewife; the couple will instead live on Michael’s $35-per-week job.
12 October 1938
Glamorous and efficient Helen Murphy runs a service that will provide any type of assistance to wealthy customers, but what she's really looking for is a man who can take care of himself.
21 June 1940
Because of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody finds lodging at a retirement home, but as only single women are allowed, the Captain has to make other arrangements.
06 January 1939
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
14 February 1931
Wealthy Jack bets friend Michael he can woo Lu Lu without money within 2 weeks. Michael hires inept detectives to stop Jack, leading to comedic misadventures as Jack pursues Lu Lu while hiding his penniless state.
27 November 1936
A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.
28 January 1941
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray.
03 September 1937
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
30 August 1926
The Mystery Club, an organization of millionaires, draws up an agreement at the instigation of Cranahan, wagering that crimes can be committed without detection by the police; Inspector Burke serves as arbiter.
