Helen Leslie
Helen Leslie | |
|---|---|
| Born | Helen Gracia Riesing May 20, 1894 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA |
| Died | ?? ?? |
| Other names | Gracia Jaccard |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse | Jacques Jaccard (div.) |
Helen Leslie (born Helen Riesing and sometimes known as Gracia Jaccard) was an American actress who was active in Hollywood during the silent era. She was briefly married to writer/director Jacques Jaccard.[1]
Biography
Helen was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to William Riesling and Frederika Childs.[2] She was still a teenager and beginning a career as an actress at Universal when she married writer/director Jacques Jaccard, who was about 10 years her senior.[3][4][5] The marriage was tumultuous and did not last, and it ended Helen's career as an actress. After the couple divorced, she seems to have dropped out of public life; it is unknown what became of her after 1930, when she was running the La Granada Apartments (729 S. Normandie Ave.) in Los Angeles's Koreatown neighborhood.[6]
Selected filmography
- Stepping Out (1917)
- Society's Hypocrites (1916)
- The Gold Band (1916)
- Ashes of Remembrance (1916)
- If My Country Should Call (1916)
- From the Rogue's Gallery (1916)
- The Code of the Mounted (1916)
- A Thousand Dollars a Week (1916)
- The Sody Clerk (1916)
- Timothy Dobbs, That's Me (1916)
- Son o' the Stars (1916)
- A Life at Stake (1915)
- A Kentucky Idyll (1915)
- The Shriek in the Night (1915)
- The Weird Nemesis (1915)
- From the Shadows (1915)
- Fate's Alibi (1915)
- The Toll of Youth (1915)
- The Little Girl of the Attic (1915)
- The Prophet of the Hills (1915)
- Nature's Triumph (1915)
- When the Spider Tore Loose (1915)
- His Last Trick (1915)
- The Bay of Seven Isles (1915)
- To Redeem an Oath (1915)
- Martin Lowe, Financier (1915)
- The Temptation of Edwin Swayne (1915)
- Pawns of Fate (1915)
- The Big Sister's Christmas (1914)
- The Widow's Last (1914)
- The Link That Binds (1914)
References
- ^ Cooper, Mark Garrett (October 1, 2010). Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-09087-5.
- ^ Photoplay: The Aristocrat of Motion Picture Magazines. Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company. 1915.
- ^ "At the Stage Door". The Los Angeles Times. October 27, 1914. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "At the Universal". The Los Angeles Times. October 18, 1914. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Poor Little Helen". The Los Angeles Times. July 29, 1915. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Blames Crime on Loneliness". The Los Angeles Times. January 9, 1922. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
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