Helene Millard

Helene Millard

Born: September 30, 1905
Died: September 20, 1974
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Helene Millard (September 30, 1905 – September 20, 1974) was an American supporting actress of the 1930s and 1940s. She started her film career in a featured role in 1929's The Thirteenth Chair. During the 1930s, she appeared in 18 films, mostly in supporting or featured roles, but her roles diminished near the end of the decade. She made six films at the beginning of the 1940s, all in supporting roles, after which she left the film industry in 1942. She returned to films briefly in 1952-53, when she made four more films, before leaving the film industry for good. Her final film appearance was in a small role in Remains to Be Seen (1953), starring June Allyson and Van Johnson. During the early 1950s, she appeared in several television shows, as well, before retiring for good in 1954 after an appearance on Topper.

She died on September 20, 1974, in Laguna Hills, California.

Movies for Helene Millard...

Remains to Be Seen
Title: Remains to Be Seen
Character: Mrs. Bennett
Released: May 15, 1953
Type: Movie
A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.
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Young Man with Ideas
Title: Young Man with Ideas
Character: Mrs. Creely (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1952
Type: Movie
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
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Nothing But the Truth
Title: Nothing But the Truth
Character: Miss Hilda Turner
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Gwen Saunders teams up with her uncle's employee, Steve Bennett, in an attempt to double her $10,000 investment in the family firm. If she can reach the $20,000 mark, her uncle, T.T. Ralston, will match the figure. Steve bets that if he can spend an entire day without telling a lie, Ralston and his business partners must double Gwen's money. Bennett then earns the enmity of everyone involved in his attempt to win the bet.
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Lady with Red Hair
Title: Lady with Red Hair
Character: Mrs. Eloise Ballard (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
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Men Against the Sky
Title: Men Against the Sky
Character: Mrs. Leslie McLean
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.
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The Biscuit Eater
Title: The Biscuit Eater
Character: Mrs. McNeil
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs. The favorite is Georgia Boy bred and trained by the boys' fathers. And if Georgia Boy doesn't win, the fathers may both lose their jobs.
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The Night of Nights
Title: The Night of Nights
Character: Perfume Saleslady (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
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The Women
Title: The Women
Character: Cosmetic Saleswoman (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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Marie Antoinette
Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Lady in Waiting to Du Barry (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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History Is Made at Night
Title: History Is Made at Night
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
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My American Wife
Title: My American Wife
Character: Mrs. Vincent Cantillon
Released: August 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian fighter Lafe Cantillon (Fred Stone). Lafe's social-climbing sister-in-law (Billie Burke) insists that her daughter Mary wed a titled European, Count Ferdinand (Francis Lederer). Much to Lafe's delight, Mary isn't assimilated into Continental high society; instead, she instructs Count Ferdinand in the virtues of good, old-fashioned American democracy. And, of, course, the Count and Lafe become great chums when the "furriner" proves that he can ride a bucking bronco with the best of 'em.
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Break of Hearts
Title: Break of Hearts
Character: Sylvia DeWitt
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.
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Broadway Bill
Title: Broadway Bill
Character: Mrs. Arthur Winslow (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
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Desirable
Title: Desirable
Character: Helen's Party Guest
Released: September 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
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False Faces
Title: False Faces
Character: June Deering
Released: October 12, 1932
Type: Movie
The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicago as a "prestigious" plastic surgeon to the stars. However, Brenton's silver tongue can't cover up his dubious methods, and an investigation into his practice is launched by the examining board of plastic surgeons. A delirious film à clef based on the loathsome career of Henry J. Schireson, the self-styled “King of Quacks”.
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By Whose Hand?
Title: By Whose Hand?
Character: Mrs. Leonard - Widow (uncredited)
Released: July 6, 1932
Type: Movie
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.
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Lady with a Past
Title: Lady with a Past
Character: Mrs. Guy Bryson (Uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
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Ladies of the Jury
Title: Ladies of the Jury
Character: Evelyn Elaine Snow
Released: February 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.
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Doctors' Wives
Title: Doctors' Wives
Character: Vivian Crosby
Released: March 14, 1931
Type: Movie
The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin when the doctor makes a housecall to a seductive woman with designs upon him. His suspicious wife follows him and spies on him. She thinks they are getting romantic when he is actually trying to extricate himself from his predatory patient. She decides to get revenge with his best friend, but nothing happens.
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Don't Bet on Women
Title: Don't Bet on Women
Character: Doris Brent
Released: February 15, 1931
Type: Movie
At a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Herbert Drake. Herbert who is happily married, bets Fallon that the next woman who walks into the room, whoever she is, won't let Fallon kiss her for 48 hours. Fallon takes the bet. Suddenly, a very beautiful and sexy woman walks in. It's Herbert's wife, Jeanne Drake...
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The Pay-Off
Title: The Pay-Off
Character: Dot
Released: October 14, 1930
Type: Movie
A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing. The thug, resentful of the couple, plans to organize a mutiny against the gang's boss, but when he is killed in a botched robbery, the police focus their attention on the young couple.
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Lawful Larceny
Title: Lawful Larceny
Character: Mrs. French
Released: August 17, 1930
Type: Movie
When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she dedicates herself to recovering the money.
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The Divorcee
Title: The Divorcee
Character: Mary
Released: April 19, 1930
Type: Movie
When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, she decides to pay him back in kind.
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Their Own Desire
Title: Their Own Desire
Character: Beth Cheever
Released: December 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Lally is a rich girl whose father writes books and plays polo. After 23 years of marriage her father decides to divorce Lally's mother and remarry to soon-to-be-divorced Beth Cheever. This sours Lally on all men. While on vacation with her mother she meets Jack, who succeeds in stealing her heart. Then Lally discovers that Jack is the son of Beth Cheever, the woman who is to marry her father.
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The Thirteenth Chair
Title: The Thirteenth Chair
Character: Mary Eastwood
Released: October 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.