Helen Broderick

Personal Info

Birthday

August 11, 1891

Day of Death

1959-09-25

(68 years old)

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Helen Broderick

Biography

Helen Broderick (August 11, 1891 - September 25, 1959) was a wonderfully funny character comedienne with vaudeville and stage experience, a close friend of Jeanne Eagels. The story goes, that at the age of 14 she ran away from home, because her mother, who appeared in operatic comedy, was totally obsessed by the theatre.

Paradoxically, all the people she met turned out to be performers, and Helen (who needed to make a living, after all) ended up where she hadn't wanted to end up - on the stage. She started out as a chorus girl in the first Ziegfeld Follies in 1907. Her talent for comedy was discovered quite by accident.

Known For

Top Hat

Swing Time

No, No, Nanette

Nice Girl?

Stage Door Canteen

Naughty But Nice

Honeymoon in Bali

The Captain Is a Lady

Filmography

1946
Because of Him
as Nora
1945
Love, Honor and Goodbye
as Mary Riley
1944
3 Is a Family
as Irma
Her Primitive Man
as Mrs. Winthrop
Chip Off the Old Block
as Glory Marlow Sr.
1943
Stage Door Canteen
as Helen Broderick
1941
Father Takes a Wife
as Aunt Julie
Nice Girl?
as Cora Foster
Virginia
as Theo Clairmont
1940
No, No, Nanette
as Mrs. Susan Smith
The Captain Is a Lady
as Nancy Crocker
1939
Honeymoon in Bali
as Lorna "Smitty" Smith
Naughty But Nice
as Aunt Martha Hogan
Stand Up and Fight
as Amanda Griffith
1938
Service de Luxe
as Pearl
The Road to Reno
as Aunt Minerva
The Rage of Paris
as Gloria Patterson
Radio City Revels
as Gertie
1937
She's Got Everything
as Aunt Jane
The Life of the Party
as Pauline
Meet the Missus
as Emma Foster
We're on the Jury
as Agnes Dean
1936
Smartest Girl in Town
as Gwen
Swing Time
as Mabel Anderson
The Bride Walks Out
as Mattie Dodson
Murder on a Bridle Path
as Hildegarde Withers
Love on a Bet
as Aunt Charlotte
1935
To Beat the Band
as Mrs. Freeda McCrary
Top Hat
as Madge Hardwick
1931
50 Million Frenchmen
as Violet