1. Helen Twelvetrees starred in Hollywood films in the sound film era from 1929 to 1939.
21 Facts About Helen Twelvetrees
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Helen Twelvetrees has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6263 Hollywood Blvd.
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Helen Twelvetrees's family moved to Flatbush, where her younger brother was born.
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Helen Twelvetrees attended Brooklyn Heights Seminary and then the Art Students League of New York, where she studied for a year before enrolling at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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Helen Twelvetrees adopted her husband's surname and used it as her professional name.
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However, she was signed by Pathe shortly thereafter, and along with Constance Bennett and Ann Harding, Helen Twelvetrees starred in several lachrymose dramas, not all of which were critically acclaimed.
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In 1936, Helen Twelvetrees traveled to Australia to star in the Cinesound Studios production Thoroughbred, about the rise of a Melbourne Cup winning racehorse.
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Helen Twelvetrees made her final two films, Persons in Hiding and Unmarried, in 1939.
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Helen Twelvetrees left film in favor of summer stock and made her Broadway debut in Jacques Deval's Boudoir in 1941.
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Helen Twelvetrees continued to act occasionally, such as in the role of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire in summer stock in Sea Cliff, New York in August 1951.
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Helen Twelvetrees married her first husband, actor Clark Twelvetrees, in February 1927.
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Helen Twelvetrees struck two awnings before landing on a parked taxi and was hospitalized for several months.
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Clark Helen Twelvetrees died in August 1938 of a skull fracture after striking his head on a curb when a man, who witnessed Clark hit a woman to the ground with whom he was arguing, physically intervened.
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Helen Twelvetrees married again in April 1931, this time to WWI Marine Corps veteran Frank "Jack" Bryan Woody.
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Helen Twelvetrees divorced Woody in 1936, citing that he was essentially unemployed and living off her earnings.
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Helen Twelvetrees married for a third and final time to farmer and Air Force Captain Conrad Payne in 1947.
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Helen Twelvetrees spent her remaining years traveling the world with her husband, who was stationed in the US and Europe.
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On February 13,1958, Helen Twelvetrees was found unconscious on the floor of her living room at her home in Middletown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Helen Twelvetrees was taken to Olmstead Air Force Base Hospital in Middletown, where she died.
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Helen Twelvetrees's ashes were interred in a grave in Middletown Cemetery.
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The play I'm Looking for Helen Twelvetrees explores Twelvetrees' life through the eyes of another actor who saw her perform on Long Island.