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Helene Reynolds(1914-1990)

  • Actress
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Helene Reynolds
Helene Whitney was born in 1914 as Kenyon Fortescue and was the grandniece of Alexander Graham Bell and cousin once removed of President Theodore Roosevelt. She married Julian Louis Reynolds, heir to the R.J. Reynolds tobacco fortune in 1936. But they divorced in 1939 and she started her acting work using stage names of Joyce Gardner, Helene Whitney and Helene Reynolds. After her theatrical work ended she became the proprietor of a Manhattan Art Gallery. She passed away on March 28, 1990 at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center of pneumonia.
BornJuly 8, 1914
DiedMarch 28, 1990(75)
BornJuly 8, 1914
DiedMarch 28, 1990(75)
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Known for

Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Spring Byington, Charles Coburn, Louis Calhern, Laird Cregar, and Marjorie Main in Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Heaven Can Wait
7.3
  • Peggy Nash
  • 1943
Maureen O'Hara and Charles Laughton in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
7.8
  • Fleur de Lys(as Helene Whitney)
  • 1939
Ginger Rogers and George Montgomery in Roxie Hart (1942)
Roxie Hart
6.9
  • Velma Wall
  • 1942
Lloyd Nolan and Marjorie Weaver in The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942)
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
6.6
  • Anna Wolff
  • 1942

Credits

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Actress

  • The Plainclothesman
    5.5
    TV Series
    • 1951–1952
  • The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1948)
    The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre
    7.2
    TV Series
    • 1948
  • The Front Page
    7.8
    TV Movie
    • Mollie Malloy
    • 1945
  • Preston Foster and Ann Rutherford in Bermuda Mystery (1944)
    Bermuda Mystery
    5.8
    • Angela
    • 1944
  • Cesar Romero, Sonja Henie, Woody Herman, Carole Landis, and Jack Oakie in Wintertime (1943)
    Wintertime
    6.2
    • Marian Daly (uncredited)
    • 1943
  • Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Spring Byington, Charles Coburn, Louis Calhern, Laird Cregar, and Marjorie Main in Heaven Can Wait (1943)
    Heaven Can Wait
    7.3
    • Peggy Nash
    • 1943
  • Lois Andrews, James Ellison, Charlotte Greenwood, Helene Reynolds, Charles Ruggles, and Raymond Walburn in Dixie Dugan (1943)
    Dixie Dugan
    7.2
    • Jean Patterson
    • 1943
  • Jack Benny and Priscilla Lane in The Meanest Man in the World (1943)
    The Meanest Man in the World
    6.4
    • Wife
    • 1943
  • Don Ameche and Joan Bennett in Girl Trouble (1942)
    Girl Trouble
    6.7
    • Helen Martin
    • 1942
  • Tales of Manhattan (1942)
    Tales of Manhattan
    7.3
    • Actress (Boyer sequence)
    • 1942
  • Jean Gabin and Ida Lupino in Moontide (1942)
    Moontide
    6.8
    • Woman on Boat
    • 1942
  • Lloyd Nolan and Marjorie Weaver in The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942)
    The Man Who Wouldn't Die
    6.6
    • Anna Wolff
    • 1942
  • Ginger Rogers and George Montgomery in Roxie Hart (1942)
    Roxie Hart
    6.9
    • Velma Wall
    • 1942
  • George Reeves, Mary Beth Hughes, Lloyd Nolan, and Helene Reynolds in Blue, White and Perfect (1942)
    Blue, White and Perfect
    6.6
    • Helen Shaw
    • 1942
  • Don Ameche and Joan Bennett in Confirm or Deny (1941)
    Confirm or Deny
    6.4
    • Dorothy
    • 1941

Personal details

  • Alternative name
    • Helene Whitney
  • Born
    • July 8, 1914
    • Brussels, Belgium
  • Died
    • March 28, 1990
    • Lake Worth, Florida, USA(cancer)
  • Spouse
    • Julian Reynolds1936 - 1938
  • Publicity listings
    • 2 Articles

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  • Trivia
    Blonde, convent-educated starlet of the 1940s, a real-life blue-blood, and usually cast in movies as well-bred, polished society girls. Left movies for the stage in 1945. Married to Julian Louis Reynolds, heir to a tobacco and steel fortune.

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