Helen Twelvetrees
American stage and screen performer, considered a top female star in the early days of sound films.
Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound...
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Millie
as Millie Blake MaitlandAfter a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and...
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King for a Night
as Lillian WilliamsA prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
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The Painted Desert
as Mary Ellen CameronWestern pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and...
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Is My Face Red?
as Peggy BannonWilliam Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and...
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Panama Flo
as Flo BennettAn engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle...
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Unashamed
as Joan OgdenA debutante's (Helen Twelvetrees) brother (Robert Young) stands trial for killing her no-good lover.
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Boo
as Annabelle West (edited from "The Cat Creeps")A wisecracking narrator mocks footage featuring Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula.
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A Woman of Experience
as Elsa ElsbergenIt is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute,...
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A Bedtime Story
as SallyParisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
as uncreditedShort film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations...
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Now I'll Tell
as Virginia GoldenA two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his...
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Bad Company
as Helen King CarlyleA psychotic and sadistic mob boss is infatuated with the young wife of his newlywed attorney,...
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Thoroughbred
as JoanJoan (Helen Twelvetrees) is a Canadian, adopted by Ma Dawson (Nellie Ferguson), a struggling...
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My Woman
as Connie RollinsA devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
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Swing High
as MaryanTo avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a...
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Her Man
as FrankieA prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.
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Disgraced!
as Gay HollowayA lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To...
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Frisco Waterfront
as AliceAs California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the...
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Times Square Lady
as Margo HeathA young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's...
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The Spanish Cape Mystery
as Stella GodfreyEllery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
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State's Attorney
as June PerryCorrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the...
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Blue Skies
as Dorothy May (episode 2)Better known for her work in talkie "weepers," Helen Twelvetrees made a few preliminary...
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Hollywood Round-Up
as Carol StevensWhile filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie...
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The Ghost Talks
as Miriam HoltMiriam Holt hopes to solve the disappearance of a million dollars in bonds allegedly stolen by...
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She Gets Her Man
as FrancineEsmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town...
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Words and Music
as Dorothy BlakePhil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college...
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Unmarried
as Pat RogersPals Pat Rogers and Slag Bailey try to collect a debt from Slag's recently deceased boxing...
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All Men Are Enemies
as uncreditedA British aristocrat falls in love with an Austrian woman before they are separated with the...
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One Hour Late
as Betty DunnA secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to...
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Persons in Hiding
as Helen GriswoldDuring a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
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She Was a Lady
as Sheila VaneBefore his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded...
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Young Bride
as Allie Smith RiggsA newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
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The Cat Creeps
as Annabelle WestDisappearances and strange goings-on in a spooky old mansion.
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The Grand Parade
as MollyNo one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen...
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