Biography

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.
- IMDb mini biography by: WilliamHart

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.

Cousin of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as Franklin's wife Eleanor Roosevelt. All four are descendants of the same Roosevelt family that immigrated from Holland to NYC.

Sister of Thalia Massie.

Daughter of Grace Hubbard Fortescue.