Helen Ware

Helen Ware

Born: October 15, 1877
Died: January 25, 1939
in San Francisco, California, USA

Movies for Helen Ware...

Romance in Manhattan
Title: Romance in Manhattan
Character: Miss Anthrop
Released: January 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides Karel from the immigration authorities and ultimately falls in love with him. In addition to Karel's illegal-alien status, the plot is complicated by a crooked lawyer and a group of well-meaning welfare workers who endeavor to place Sylvia's kid brother Frank in a foster home.
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Secret of the Chateau
Title: Secret of the Chateau
Character: Madame Rombiere
Released: December 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.
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Sadie McKee
Title: Sadie McKee
Character: Mrs. McKee
Released: May 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
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Morning Glory
Title: Morning Glory
Character: Nellie Navarre
Released: August 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory after its brief blooming?
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She Had to Say Yes
Title: She Had to Say Yes
Character: Mrs. Haines
Released: July 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have been using professional female entertainers to keep their clients very happy, but the clients are getting bored of them. Tommy convinces management to replace the professionals with "volunteers" from the pool of stenographers. Inevitably some clients expectations are greater than their "dates", boyfriends become unhappy, and the "voluntary" duty becomes less so over time. At first, Tommy prevents Florence from being a volunteer, but eventually the prospect of a bonus becomes too great and he encourages her to volunteer. Afterwards, Tommy considers Florence a loose woman.
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The Warrior's Husband
Title: The Warrior's Husband
Character: Pomposia
Released: April 28, 1933
Type: Movie
The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's husband Sapiens (Ernest Truex) is truly a sissy of the first order, and is not unlike most of Pontus' male inhabitants.
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The Keyhole
Title: The Keyhole
Character: Portia DeWitt Brooks
Released: March 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
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Girl Missing
Title: Girl Missing
Character: Mrs. Bradford
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.
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Ladies They Talk About
Title: Ladies They Talk About
Character: Head Matron Mrs. Johnson (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
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Flaming Gold
Title: Flaming Gold
Character: Tampico Tess Terrell
Released: September 28, 1932
Type: Movie
Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.
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The Night of June 13
Title: The Night of June 13
Character: Mrs. Morrow
Released: September 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John, and vows revenge on Trudie. John explains to Trudie Elna's condition and plan. Trudie, being good-hearted tells John that she'll move. One evening, John returns late from work to discover Elna dead. John burns Elna's suicide note to protect Trudie. This results in John being charged for murder and put on trial.
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The Reckless Hour
Title: The Reckless Hour
Character: Harriett Nichols
Released: August 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a warm-hearted artist-type who shows her that life -- and men -- ain't so bad in this early talkie drama.
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I Take This Woman
Title: I Take This Woman
Character: Aunt Bessie
Released: June 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy New York socialite falls for and marries a cowboy while out West. Her father disinherits her, and after trying to make a go of it as a cowboy's wife, they agree to divorce and she returns back east to her family. However, she soon changes her mind and determines to get her husband back.
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Party Husband
Title: Party Husband
Character: Mrs. Duell
Released: June 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its premature end. Fellow Ziegfield alum Mary Doran plays the coquette whose intended conquest of the free-thinking hubby (James Rennie) starts to throw the couple’s “understanding” awry.
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Command Performance
Title: Command Performance
Character: Queen Elinor
Released: January 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance to the prince. The King and Queen hatch a plan to force the prince to do his duty.
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Tol'able David
Title: Tol'able David
Character: Mrs. Kinemon
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Tol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of a famous 1921 silent film Tol'able David starring Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mailman for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.
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Abraham Lincoln
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Character: Mrs. Edwards
Released: November 8, 1930
Type: Movie
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
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One Night at Susie's
Title: One Night at Susie's
Character: Susie
Released: October 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.
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She's My Weakness
Title: She's My Weakness
Character: Mrs. Elise Thurber
Released: August 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Tommy Mills and Marie Thurber, sweethearts, plan to marry when Tommy sells some land he has inherited. Marie's parents favor the match, as they prefer Tommy over Bernard Norton, another suitor. Her father, Warren Thurber, however, is in financial straits and plans to sell land to a civic improvement association headed by David Tuttle. When he discovers that Tommy has agreed to sell his land to Mrs. Oberlander, he berates him; but Tommy agrees to boost the price so that Thurber will win out. Tuttle, who favors Bernard as Marie's husband, persuades Tommy that he must endure the displeasure of the Thurbers, and as a result a misunderstanding arises over the sale of the land. But Tuttle's scheme backfires, and Tommy wins the girl after all.
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Slightly Scarlet
Title: Slightly Scarlet
Character: Corbett's Wife
Released: February 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera. Aware that Lucy is a phony, jewel-thief Malatroff blackmails Lucy into helping him steal the valuable necklace owned by the young wife of phlegmatic American businessman Sylvester Corbett.
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Half Way to Heaven
Title: Half Way to Heaven
Character: Madame Elsie
Released: December 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Odd little circus film about trapeze artists and obsessive love.
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Character: Mrs. 'Ma' Taylor
Released: November 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.
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Speakeasy
Title: Speakeasy
Character: Min
Released: March 8, 1929
Type: Movie
Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the championship. However, he does not know that his manager is preparing to double-cross him.
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New Year's Eve
Title: New Year's Eve
Character: Landlady
Released: February 24, 1929
Type: Movie
Taking place over 24 hours, "New Year's Eve" is the story of Marjorie Ware, broke and unemployed, who despairs as her ailing younger brother languishes at home. She runs into rich gambler Larry Harmon and rejects his overtures. She later finds a wallet with 10 $100 bills belonging to Edward Warren.
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Napoleon's Barber
Title: Napoleon's Barber
Character: The Barber's Wife
Released: November 24, 1928
Type: Movie
Arthur Caesar's classic about the barber who held the fate of France in his hands, has been produced on lavish feature-film scale by John Ford, the man who made The Iron Horse and Four Sons.
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Soul-Fire
Title: Soul-Fire
Character: San Francisco Sal
Released: May 30, 1925
Type: Movie
Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job back home in the United States. After his studies in Italy, he moves to Paris, where he is forced to write popular songs for money when he stops receiving support from his father. He tires of selling out and, after an encounter with the mob, starts to travel. He begins a madcap journey from Paris to Port Said, Egypt, and to the South Seas, where he believes he has found love with Teita (Bessie Love).
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The Deep Purple
Title: The Deep Purple
Character: Kate Fallon
Released: May 2, 1920
Type: Movie
Doris Moore is a country girl who is conned by two crooks, Harry Leland and Pop Clark. They convince the naive girl to come with them to New York City and play the badger game on William Lake. But the intervention of Kate Fallon, who runs the gang's New York home, saves the innocent and traps the guilty. Instead of tricking Lake, Doris marries him.
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Thieves' Gold
Title: Thieves' Gold
Character: Mrs Savage
Released: March 18, 1918
Type: Movie
Cheyenne Harry tries to help his outlaw friend Padden evade arrest after Padden has drunkenly shot another man. In the end, the two mismatched friends fight it out, leaving Padden dead. In a romantic subplot, Harry's fiancée Alice leaves him, but finally returns.
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The Haunted Pajamas
Title: The Haunted Pajamas
Character: Elizabeth Billings
Released: June 11, 1917
Type: Movie
When Richard Hudson receives a pair of silk pajamas from a friend in China, he is unaware that they are bewitched and that whoever wears them will be transformed into someone else.
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The Garden of Allah
Title: The Garden of Allah
Character: Domini Enfilden
Released: December 25, 1916
Type: Movie
When her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden attempts to forget her pain in Beni Mora, an oasis in the Sahara. At the desert hotel, she meets and falls in love with Boris Androvsky, a tormented man of mystery. Abruptly announcing his departure one day, Boris bids farewell to Domini in the Garden of Allah
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Secret Love
Title: Secret Love
Character: Joan Lowrie
Released: January 31, 1916
Type: Movie
In an English mining town during the 1870's, Joan Lowrie falls in love with Fergus Derrick, the new chief engineer who vows to improve working conditions. Joan's father Don, however, runs the mine and likes conditions just as they are. As a result, he quickly learns to detest the crusading Fergus, even to the point of trying to murder him.
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The Price
Title: The Price
Released: October 4, 1915
Type: Movie