Helen Mack

Helen Mack

Born: November 13, 1913
Died: August 13, 1986
in Rock Island, Illinois, United States
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Helen Mack (November 12, 1913 – August 13, 1986) was an American actress. Mack started her career as a child actress in silent films, moving on to Broadway plays, and touring the vaudeville circuit. Her greater success as an actress was as a leading lady in the 1930s. Eventually Mack transitioned into performing on radio, and then into writing, directing, and producing some of the best known radio shows during the Golden Age of Radio. Later in life, Mack billed herself as a professional writer, writing for Broadway, stage, and television. Her career spanned the infancy of the motion picture industry, the beginnings of Broadway, the final days of Vaudeville, the transition to "talking pictures", the Golden Age of Radio, and the rise of television.

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Strange Holiday
Title: Strange Holiday
Character: Miss Sims, Secretary
Released: October 19, 1945
Type: Movie
An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.
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Divorce
Title: Divorce
Character: Martha Phillips
Released: August 18, 1945
Type: Movie
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
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And Now Tomorrow
Title: And Now Tomorrow
Character: Angeletta Gallo
Released: November 22, 1944
Type: Movie
Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't work. Her sister is carrying on an affair with her fiance Jeff. Vance tries a new serum which causes Emily to faint... Will it work this time?
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Power Dive
Title: Power Dive
Character: Betty Coles
Released: June 4, 1941
Type: Movie
The story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary all-plastic airplane. Ace flyboy Brad Farrell (Richard Arlen) is determined to prove the practicality of the new aircraft, designed by Professor Blake (Thomas Ross), father of Brad's sweetheart Carol (Jean Parker). Back on solid ground, Brad must vie for Carol's attentions with his own brother, engineer Doug Farrell (Don Castle).
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Girls of the Road
Title: Girls of the Road
Character: Mickey
Released: July 24, 1940
Type: Movie
A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.
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His Girl Friday
Title: His Girl Friday
Character: Mollie Malloy
Released: January 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
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Calling All Marines
Title: Calling All Marines
Character: Judy Fox
Released: September 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome home Judy's brother, Marine Sergeant Marvin Fox.
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Mystery of the White Room
Title: Mystery of the White Room
Character: Carole Dale
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
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Gambling Ship
Title: Gambling Ship
Character: Mollie Riley
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage.
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Secrets of a Nurse
Title: Secrets of a Nurse
Character: Nurse Katherine 'Mack' MacDonald
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
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I Stand Accused
Title: I Stand Accused
Character: Alison Cooper
Released: October 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Fred, a young lawyer fresh out of school, climbs quickly to success as the mouthpiece for a gangland mob. His friend Paul, however, reaches equally quick success - in the district attorney's office. Inevitably, they meet on opposite sides of the courtroom.
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King of the Newsboys
Title: King of the Newsboys
Character: Mary Ellen Stephens
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.
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The Wrong Road
Title: The Wrong Road
Character: Ruth Holden
Released: October 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
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Fit for a King
Title: Fit for a King
Character: Jane Hamilton / Princess Helen
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince.
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The Last Train from Madrid
Title: The Last Train from Madrid
Character: Lola
Released: June 11, 1937
Type: Movie
The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.
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You Can't Buy Luck
Title: You Can't Buy Luck
Character: Betty McKay
Released: April 30, 1937
Type: Movie
When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
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I Promise to Pay
Title: I Promise to Pay
Character: Mary Lang
Released: April 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A man goes to a loan shark to finance his family's vacation.
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The Milky Way
Title: The Milky Way
Character: Mae Sullivan
Released: February 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.
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The Return Of Peter Grimm
Title: The Return Of Peter Grimm
Character: Catherine
Released: September 13, 1935
Type: Movie
The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong.
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She
Title: She
Character: Tanya Dugmore
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Leo Vincey, told by his dying uncle of a lost land visited 500 years ago by his ancestor, heads out with family friend Horace Holly to try to discover the land and its secret of immortality, said to be contained within a mystic fire. Picking up Tanya, a guide's daughter, in the frozen Russian arctic, they stumble upon Kor, revealed to be a hidden civilization ruled over by an immortal queen, called She, who believes Vincey is her long-lost lover John Vincey, Leo's ancestor.
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Four Hours to Kill!
Title: Four Hours to Kill!
Character: Helen
Released: April 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
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Captain Hurricane
Title: Captain Hurricane
Character: Susan 'Matey' Ann
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain Hurricane." Brewster is smitten with neighbor Abbie Howland, but she doesn't like his temperament. After a period of retirement, a bad investment puts Brewster back at work on the sea. And when fire overtakes his ship, Hurricane proves heroic, selflessly rescuing his crew from a grisly and deadly fate.
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College Rhythm
Title: College Rhythm
Character: June Cort
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After graduation they carry their their feud and collegiate ideas over into the department store business.
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The Lemon Drop Kid
Title: The Lemon Drop Kid
Character: Alice Deering
Released: September 27, 1934
Type: Movie
The Lemon Drop Kid is a fast-talking racetrack bum who swindles $100 from an old, ailing man. He takes it on the lam with his sidekick, The Professor.
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You Belong to Me
Title: You Belong to Me
Character: Florette Faxon
Released: September 8, 1934
Type: Movie
When vaudeville performer Florette Faxon is left penniless with her six-year-old son Jimmy, she relies on the friendship of fellow performer Bud Hannigan to help her get a job. Bud is reluctant to become her partner, as he has proven to himself to be unreliable in relationships, but he tells her to call him whenever she needs help. While working in a beer garden, Florette meets Hap Stanley, an avaricious performer who marries her to get the rights to perform her show routine. Hap dislikes Jimmy and eventually convinces Florette to send him away to school. Both Jimmy and Florette are broken-up over being apart, but Jimmy pretends it is what he wants so Florette can be happy with Hap.
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Kiss and Make-Up
Title: Kiss and Make-Up
Character: Anne
Released: July 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the effects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, and wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher... after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.
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All of Me
Title: All of Me
Character: Eve Haron
Released: February 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.
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The Son of Kong
Title: The Son of Kong
Character: Hilda Peterson
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.
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Fargo Express
Title: Fargo Express
Character: Helen Clark
Released: November 20, 1933
Type: Movie
When Mort loses his and Ken's money at poker, Goss gets him to rob the stage. He is captured, identified by his palomino horse. Ken tries to clear him by robbing a stage while riding a palomino, but he also gets caught.
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Christopher Bean
Title: Christopher Bean
Character: Susan Haggett
Released: November 17, 1933
Type: Movie
When the painter Christopher Bean dies, some unscrupulous art dealers try to get several of his paintings cheaply from a family who have no idea of their value.
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Blind Adventure
Title: Blind Adventure
Character: Rose Thorne
Released: August 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they try to unravel the mystery, enlisting the aid of a cat burglar named Holmes, who they bump into along the way.
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Melody Cruise
Title: Melody Cruise
Character: Laurie Marlowe
Released: June 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.
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Sweepings
Title: Sweepings
Character: Mamie Donahue
Released: April 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude.
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The California Trail
Title: The California Trail
Character: Dolores Ramirez
Released: March 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Santa Fe Stuart, leading a relief train bringing food to the peasants, gets caught up in the Commandante and his brother the Mayor's effort to starve out the peasants. Thrown in jail and about to be hung, he escapes and joins the peasants in their fight against the brothers and their troops...
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While Paris Sleeps
Title: While Paris Sleeps
Character: Manon Costaud
Released: May 8, 1932
Type: Movie
To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.
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The Silent Witness
Title: The Silent Witness
Character: Sylvia Pierce
Released: February 7, 1932
Type: Movie
A London nobleman (Lionel Atwill) takes the blame and stands trial after his son strangles a lover (Greta Nissen).
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The Struggle
Title: The Struggle
Character: A Catty Girl
Released: December 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.
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Under the Red Robe
Title: Under the Red Robe
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1923
Type: Movie
A young man is tasked by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu to capture one of the cardinal's enemies but falls in love with his target's sister. The film marks the last motion picture appearance by stage actor Robert B. Mantell who plays Cardinal Richelieu and the only silent screen performance of opera singer John Charles Thomas.
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Zaza
Title: Zaza
Character: Lucille Dufresne
Released: October 21, 1923
Type: Movie
Zaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her. But during one performance, while Zaza is singing on a swing, her rival cuts the rope and she falls. Zaza is badly injured and she makes Dufresne's acquaintance. A romance quickly springs up and he installs her in a villa. Their happiness is marred, however, when his wife appears.
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Success
Title: Success
Character: Ruth (as Helen Macks)
Released: February 25, 1923
Type: Movie
The often-told film story of a drunken actor hitting the skids, making a comeback, and helping his grown daughter in the bargain.