Helen Broderick

Helen Broderick
File:Helen Broderick.jpg Helen Broderick.
Born	(1891-08-11)11 August 1891 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died	25 September 1959(1959-09-25) (aged 68) Beverly Hills, California, US
Occupation(s)	Stage, film actress
Years active	1924–1946
Spouse	Lester Crawford (1910–1959) (her death)
Children	Broderick Crawford

Helen Broderick (August 11, 1891 – September 25, 1959) was an American film and stage actress known for her comic roles, especially as a wisecracking sidekick.

Career

She began on Broadway as a chorus girl in the Follies of 1907, the first of Florenz Ziegfeld's annual revues. By the late 1920s, she was playing leads and featured roles, most notably in Fifty Million Frenchmen. In the early 1930s, she starred in the revues The Band Wagon and As Thousands Cheer. Her film roles included her stage success made into a film: Fifty Million Frenchmen, the Astaire-Rogers movies Top Hat and Swing Time. She did leading roles in a few B movies, such as Murder on a Bridle Path.

The wife of actor Lester Crawford (they appear together in the 1931 7-minute comedy short The Spirits of 76th Street), she was the mother of Academy Award-winning actor Broderick Crawford.

Complete filmography

• High Speed (1924)
• The Mystery Club (1926)
• Nile Green (1930 short)
• For Art's Sake (1930 short)
• Court Plastered (1931 short)
• 50 Million Frenchmen (1931)
• The Spirits of 76th Street (1931 short)
• Cold Turkey (1931 short)
• Top Hat (1935)
• To Beat the Band (1935)
• Love on a Bet (1936)
• Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)
• The Bride Walks Out (1936)
• Swing Time (1936)
• Smartest Girl in Town (1936)
• We're on the Jury (1937)
• Meet the Missus (1937)
• The Life of the Party (1937)
• She's Got Everything (1937)
• Radio City Revels (1938)
• The Rage of Paris (1938)
• The Road to Reno (1938)
• Service de Luxe (1938)
• Stand Up and Fight (1939)
• Naughty but Nice (1939)
• Honeymoon in Bali (1939)
• The Captain Is a Lady (1940)
• No, No, Nanette (1940)
• Virginia (1941)
• Nice Girl? (1941)
• Father Takes a Wife (1941)
• Picture People No. 3: Hobbies of the Stars (1941 short)
• Stage Door Canteen (1943)
• Chip Off the Old Block (1944)
• Her Primitive Man (1944)
• Three Is a Family (1944)
• Love, Honor and Goodbye (1945)
• Because of Him (1946)

External links

• Helen Broderick at IMDb
• Helen Broderick at the Internet Broadway Database
• Helen Broderick at Find a Grave