Helen Lowell

Helen Lowell

Born: June 1, 1866
Died: June 28, 1937
in New York City, New York, USA
Helen Lowell (born Helen Lowell Robb) was an American stage and film actress.

Movies for Helen Lowell...

She Had to Eat
Title: She Had to Eat
Character: Melinda Franklin (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
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The Go-Getter
Title: The Go-Getter
Character: Mrs. Luce
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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Michael O'Halloran
Title: Michael O'Halloran
Character: Hettie
Released: May 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A wealthy woman's wild lifestyle finally drives her husband to take their two children, move out of the house and file for divorce. Positive she'll lose her children unless she shows the judge that she's changed her wild ways, she takes in two poor street kids, a brother and sister.
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Racketeers in Exile
Title: Racketeers in Exile
Character: Mrs.Abigail Thornton
Released: March 30, 1937
Type: Movie
In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival that inspires the man to begin billing himself as a "born-again" evangelist so he can cash in on the guilty consciences of local businessmen.
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Wild Brian Kent
Title: Wild Brian Kent
Character: Aunt Sue Prentice
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Polo player Brian stops in a Kansas town and find a girl and her aunt needing money to keep their ranch. He also finds his new real estate partner is the crook trying to do the women out of their ranch.
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Title: Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Character: Mrs. Wadsworth
Released: October 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
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I'd Give My Life
Title: I'd Give My Life
Character: Mrs. Bancroft, Sr.
Released: August 13, 1936
Type: Movie
The movie, like the play "The Noose" on which it is based, is the story of a young man wrongfully convicted of and sentenced to be hanged for a murder which he never committed.
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Snowed Under
Title: Snowed Under
Character: Mrs. Canterbury
Released: March 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second wife, shows up wanting her alimony. Stranded with two wives, a girlfriend, and a jug of applejack, Alan still has to finish his play!
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Strike Me Pink
Title: Strike Me Pink
Character: Hattie 'Ma' Carson
Released: January 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
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Dr. Socrates
Title: Dr. Socrates
Character: Ma Ganson
Released: October 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
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The Goose and the Gander
Title: The Goose and the Gander
Character: Aunt Julia Hamilton
Released: September 21, 1935
Type: Movie
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
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Page Miss Glory
Title: Page Miss Glory
Character: Actress
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
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Party Wire
Title: Party Wire
Character: Nettie Putnam
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
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Transient Lady
Title: Transient Lady
Character: Matilda Branham
Released: March 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.
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Living on Velvet
Title: Living on Velvet
Character: Aunt Martha
Released: March 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of money enters their life, their differences come to light.
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Devil Dogs of the Air
Title: Devil Dogs of the Air
Character: Ma Roberts
Released: February 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.
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Maybe It's Love
Title: Maybe It's Love
Character: Mrs. Halevy
Released: January 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
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Madame du Barry
Title: Madame du Barry
Character: Countess de Berne
Released: October 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Madame du Barry charms her way into the heart of gouty King Louis XV.
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Big Hearted Herbert
Title: Big Hearted Herbert
Character: Martha
Released: October 6, 1934
Type: Movie
After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
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The Case of the Howling Dog
Title: The Case of the Howling Dog
Character: Elizabeth Walker
Released: September 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
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The Dragon Murder Case
Title: The Dragon Murder Case
Character: Mother Stamm
Released: August 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.
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Side Streets
Title: Side Streets
Character: Tillie
Released: August 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.
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Midnight Alibi
Title: Midnight Alibi
Character: 'The Old Doll'
Released: July 12, 1934
Type: Movie
An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.
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The Merry Frinks
Title: The Merry Frinks
Character: Amelia 'Grandma' Frink
Released: May 26, 1934
Type: Movie
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
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Isn't Life Wonderful
Title: Isn't Life Wonderful
Character: The Grandmother
Released: December 5, 1924
Type: Movie
A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and struggle to survive the conditions there, during the Great Inflation. Inga is a Polish war orphan who has only accumulated a small amount of money from the rubble and hopes to marry Paul. Weakened by poison gas, Paul begins to invest in Inga's future and he serves as their symbol of optimism.
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The Virtuous Model
Title: The Virtuous Model
Character: Mrs. Fleury
Released: September 14, 1919
Type: Movie
Denise Fleury supports her invalid mother in the Montmartre slums by making artificial flowers in a factory. When she loses her job, Denise is convinced by her friend Suzanne to join her working in a cabaret.