Helene Chadwick
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Helene Chadwick (November 25, 1897 – September 4, 1940) was an American actress in Silent and early sound films. Chadwick was born in the small town of Chadwicks, New York, which was named for her grandfather. Her mother was a singer who performed on the stage and her father was a businessman. She began making films for Pathe Pictures in Manhattan, New York. A director was impressed by Chadwick's talent as an equestrian, thus she began acting as a western star, but this did not continue with the exodus of film production from the east to the west coast. Signed by Samuel Goldwyn, Chadwick went to California in 1913 and entered silent movies in 1916. She was a star from 1920 through 1925. At the pinnacle of her acting career, she earned a salary estimated to have been $2,000 per week. From 1929 until 1935, she found success as a character actress when sound was being introduced to films. In the final five years of her life she was reduced to taking roles as an extra, playing "atmospheric parts". She was always optimistic that her fortunes would turn for the better. Helene made movies with Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, and other studios. Her most noteworthy performances came in The Long Arm of Mannister (1919), The Cup of Fury (1920), Heartsease (1919), The Sin Flood (1922), Dangerous Curve Ahead (1921), From The Ground Up (1921), The Glorious Fool (1922), Yellow Men and Gold (1922), Dust Flower (1922), Godless Men (1920), and Quicksands (1923). In January 1919, Chadwick became engaged to Lieutenant William A. Wellman, an American pilot with the Lafayette Flying Corps. He had just returned from France and was cited for bravery for his valour in World War I. The couple had met at a party at the house of a friend. Wellman was signed to play a prominent role in an upcoming movie with Douglas Fairbanks Sr. The couple wed in July 1921, but in the summer of 1923 Chadwick sued Wellman for divorce on grounds of desertion and non-support. At the time of their separation William was directing movies for Fox Film. Wellman directed Wings, the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, as well as many other notable films. Helene Chadwick died at St. Vincent's Hospital, Los Angeles, California, aged 42, in 1940. Her death was indirectly the result of an accident she suffered in June 1939.
Known for
Credits
Morning Glory (1933)
as Secretary (uncredited)
The Bad Sister (1931)
as Amy, Sam's Wife (uncredited)
Frisco Kid (1935)
as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
So Big! (1932)
as Townsperson (uncredited)
Mississippi (1935)
as Atendee at Opening (uncredited)
Night World (1932)
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Merrily Yours (1933)
as Mrs. Rogers
A Very Good Young Man (1919)
as Ruth Douglas
Employees' Entrance (1933)
as Attendee at Meeting of Department Heads (uncredited)
Good Dame (1934)
as Mrs. Crosby
A Wicked Woman (1934)
as Mother (uncredited)
School for Girls (1934)
as Larson
Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
as Prison Matron (uncredited)
The Perfect Set-Up (1936)
as Mary (uncredited)
Pleasures of the Rich (1926)
as Mary Wilson
Dangerous Curve Ahead (1921)
as Phoebe (Mabee) Jones
Reno (1923)
as Mrs. Emily Dysart Tappan
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent (1925)
as Betty Joe
Hell Bound (1931)
as Sanford's Sister
Men Are Like That (1930)
as Clara Hyland
Made in Heaven (1921)
as Claudia Royce
The Golden Cocoon (1925)
as Molly Shannon
Hard Boiled (1926)
as Marjorie Gregg
The Solitary Sin (1919)
as Mary
Trouping with Ellen (1924)
as Ellen Llewellyn
Quicksands (1923)
as The Girl
Managed Money (1934)
as Mrs. George Myers
The Naulahka (1918)
as Kate Sheriff
The House of Hate (1918)
as Queenie Kate
The Sin Flood (1922)
as Poppy
Say It with Sables (1928)
as Helen Caswell
Modern Mothers (1928)
as Adele Dayton
Blind Man's Luck (1917)
as Helen
Yellow Men and Gold (1922)
as Bessie
The Still Alarm (1926)
as Lucy Fay
The Glorious Fool (1922)
as Jane Brown
The Cup of Fury (1920)
as Marie Louise - 'Mamise'
The Old Nest (1921)
as Emily at 22
Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes (1926)
as Helene
The Angel Factory (1917)
as Florence Lamont
The Bachelor's Baby (1927)
as Eleanor Carter
The Border Legion (1924)
as Joan Randle
Girls (1919)
as Kate West
Gimme (1923)
as Fanny Daniels
Vengeance Is Mine (1917)
as Marion De Long
The Challenge (1916)
as Alberta Bradley
Cupid the Cowpuncher (1920)
as Macie Sewell
Godless Men (1920)
as Ruth Lytton
The Long Arm of Mannister (1919)
as Sylvia De La Mere
Stolen Pleasures (1927)
as Doris Manning
The Yellow Ticket (1918)
as Miss Seaton
Father and Son (1929)
as Miss White
Why Men Leave Home (1924)
as Irene Emerson
The Dark Swan (1924)
as Cornelia Quinn
Go-Get-Em Garringer (1919)
as Wilma Wharton
Love of Women (1924)
as Cynthia Redfield
The Dust Flower (1922)
as Letty Gravely
Women Who Dare (1928)
as Stella Mowbray
An Adventure in Hearts (1919)
as Countess Lucia Bonavia D'Orano
The Honest Thief (1918)
as Edith Marbury
The Woman Hater (1925)
Actor
Her Own Free Will (1924)
as Nan Everard
Dancing Days (1926)
as Alice Hedman
The Masked Dancer (1924)
as Betty Powell
The Mystery of the Double Cross (1917)
Actor
The Last of the Carnabys (1917)
as The Kept Woman