Helen Mack started her career as a child actress in silent films, moving to Broadway plays and touring one of the vaudeville circuits.
14 Facts About Helen Mack
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Helen Mack made the transition to performing on radio and then into writing, directing, and producing shows during the Golden Age of Radio.
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Helen Mack's career spanned the infancy of the motion picture industry, the beginnings of Broadway, the final days of vaudeville, the transition to sound movies, the Golden Age of Radio, and the rise of television.
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Helen Mack attended the Professional Children's School of New York City.
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Helen Mack appeared on Broadway and in vaudeville and debuted in films at age 10 in 1924.
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Helen Mack performed with Roland Young in Pomeroy's Past, and toured America with William Hodge in Straight Through The Door.
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Helen Mack made her debut as a leading lady opposite Victor McLaglen in While Paris Sleeps and was cast with John Boles in his initial Fox Film venture Scotch Valley.
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Helen Mack played in several westerns in the early 1930s, including Fargo Express with Ken Maynard and The California Trail with Buck Jones.
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Helen Mack may be best remembered for the 1933 movie sequel The Son of Kong, as Harold Lloyd's sister in The Milky Way, and as suicidal Molly Malloy in the screwball crime comedy His Girl Friday with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell.
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Helen Mack played an important role as Tanya in Merian C Cooper's production of H Rider Haggard's Helen Mack.
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Helen Mack was chosen from more than 200 applicants for the role.
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Helen Mack co-wrote A Date with Judy with Aleen Leslie, and was its producer-director, one of the few women to fill that role in network radio.
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Helen Mack married lawyer Charles Irwin in San Francisco in February 1935,.
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Helen Mack died from cancer at the home of her friend Aleen Leslie in Beverly Hills on August 13,1986.