Helen Twelvetrees

Biography

Helen Twelvetrees was an American actress who appeared in Hollywood sound films during the 1930s. Raised in Brooklyn, she gained stage experience before heading west as the talkies displaced silent performers. Fox Film Corporation gave her a first screen job in The Ghost Talks (1929), but after three pictures the studio let her go. She then joined Pathé, where she starred in weepy dramas alongside Constance Bennett and Ann Harding. Her career took shape with Her Man (1930), and she often played women suffering for the wrong man. Later credits included Now I'll Tell with Spencer Tracy and A Bedtime Story with Maurice Chevalier. She also made Thoroughbred in Australia in 1936. Her last films were Persons in Hiding and Unmarried in 1939. She moved into summer stock and reached Broadway in Boudoir in 1941. She died in 1958.

49years old at death

Born December 25, 1908Brooklyn
Died February 13, 1958Middletown
Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
Also credited as Helen Marie Twelvetrees, Helen Marie Jurgens and Helen Jurgens

Movie Career

Films: 4
Career span: 2 years1930 to 1932

Every film, newest first

1932Is My Face Red?IMDb rating 6.0
1931MillieIMDb rating 6.2
1931The Painted DesertIMDb rating 5.2
1930Her ManIMDb rating 6.5

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First role
Twelvetrees had some stage experience, so she traveled to Hollywood alongside other actors. Their purpose was to take the place of silent stars who were unable or unwilling to move into talkies.
Beyond film
Twelvetrees kept acting now and then. One such part was Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, staged in summer stock in Sea Cliff, New York, in August 1951.