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Helen Elizabeth Oliver

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Helen Elizabeth Oliver (c. 1896 - January 14, 1934) was a singer. She was born in about 1896 in Washington, Pennsylvania, to James H. and Mary E. Oliver. She was also known as “Mazie”. She married Marvelle Cooper "Monte" Brice, a song-writer, in 1914, and divorced him in 1918, marrying Hugo Cunliffe-Owen six weeks later, at Conant Memorial Church in Dudley, Massachusetts. Cunliffe-Owen settled $4,000,000 on her when they wed. She appeared in the movie Marriage for Convenience.[1][2]

She died on January 14, 1934, after an operation. She had two sons and two daughters with Cunliffe-Owen.[2]

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  1. ^ "Cunliffe-Owen Romance is Bared in Suit". New-York Tribune. 16 April 1920. p. 6. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Death Takes Wife of Cunliffe-Owen". The New York Times. 15 January 1934. p. 15. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 21 September 2020.