Helen Vinson

Helen Vinson

  • Birthday: 1907-09-17
  • Deathday: 1999-10-07
  • Place of birth: Beaumont, Texas, USA
  • Also know as: Helen Rulfs

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Helen Vinson (September 17, 1907 – October 7, 1999) was an American film actress, who appeared in 40 films between 1932 and 1945. Vinson's screen career often featured her in roles in which she played the part of the other woman or (pre-Code) loose women with active romantic lives. Her first film role was Jewel Robbery (1932), which starred William Powell and Kay Francis. She appeared as Doris Delafield in The Kennel Murder Case, which starred Powell as Philo Vance. One of her memorable roles was in The Wedding Night (1935), when she played the wife of Gary Cooper's character and the rival of Anna Sten's, in a story about the Connecticut tobacco fields. Another performance was in the RKO film In Name Only (1939), in which she was cast as the treacherous friend of Carole Lombard, Kay Francis and Cary Grant's characters. Another standout role for Vinson was as an undercover federal agent posing as a femme fatale opposite Richard Cromwell in Universal Pictures's anti-Nazi action drama entitled, Enemy Agent (1940). She followed that role with that of Helen Draque in The Thin Man Goes Home. Vinson's film career ended in 1945. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Vinson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1560 Vine Street. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Vinson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Are These Our Parents?

1944

As Myra Salisbury

Love in Exile

1936

As Countess Xandra St. Aurion

King of the Damned

1935

As Anna Fernandez

Enemy Agent

1940

As Irene Hunter

As Husbands Go

1934

As Lucille Lingard

The Little Giant

1933

As Polly Cass

Jewel Robbery

1932

As Marianne Horn

Vogues of 1938

1937

As Mary Curson

Two Against the World

1932

As Corinne Walton

Midnight Club

1933

As Iris Whitney

Age of Indiscretion

1935

As Eve Lenhart

The Life of Vergie Winters

1934

As Laura Shadwell

Let's Try Again

1934

As Nan Blake

The Wedding Night

1935

As Dora Barrett

The Tunnel

1935

As Varlia Lloyd

Broadway Bill

1934

As Margaret

The Power and the Glory

1933

As Eve Borden

Private Worlds

1935

As Claire Monet

Lawyer Man

1932

As Barbara "Babs" Bentley

Curtain Call

1940

As Charlotte Morley

Married and in Love

1940

As Doris Wilding

Live, Love and Learn

1937

As Lily Chalmers

Bowery Boy

1940

As Peggy Winters

Chip Off the Old Block

1944

As Glory Marlow Jr.

Torrid Zone

1940

As Mrs. Gloria Anderson

Nothing But the Truth

1941

As Linda Graham

The Captain Hates the Sea

1934

As Janet Grayson

Grand Slam

1933

As Lola Starr

They Call It Sin

1932

As Enid Hollister

In Name Only

1939

As Suzanne

Beyond Tomorrow

1940

As Arlene Terry

The Thin Man Goes Home

1944

As Helena Draque

The Lady and the Monster

1944

As Chloe Donovan

Reunion

1936

As Gloria Sheridan

The Kennel Murder Case

1933

As Doris Delafield

Gift of Gab

1934

As Nurse

The Crash

1932

As Esther Parrish

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