Helene Whitney
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Helene Whitney also known as Helene Reynolds (July 4, 1914 – March 28, 1990) was an American
actress who appeared in films in the late 1930s and 1940s.
, who invented the telephone.
Through her father Granville Roland Fortescue
(1875–1952), she was cousin once removed of US President Theodore Roosevelt
.
She grew up in Washington DC where she attended the National Cathedral School for Girls
. She married Julian Louis Reynolds (born 1910), son of Richard S. Reynolds, Sr.
and heir to the Reynolds
aluminum and tobacco fortunes, on July 15, 1936 in Washington, becoming Helene Fortescue Reynolds. After three years of marriage, they divorced in May 1939. She became an actress, using the stage names of Joyce Gardner, Helene Whitney and Helene Reynolds, appeared in films in the late 1930s and 1940s and later in stage productions. After her acting career ended, she became a Manhattan art gallery proprietor and artist in the 1960s. She died of pneumonia at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Atlantis, Florida
on March 28, 1990.
As Helene Reynolds
Performer: Helene Whitney [English Townsperson, Dockworker, Tourist, Parisian];
Understudy: Helene Whitney [Mae] Feb 4, 1958 - Jul 19, 1958
Performer: Helene Whitney [Singer];
Understudy: Helene Whitney [Mrs. B.];
Understudy: Helene Whitney [Mrs. D.];
Understudy: Helene Whitney [Mrs. L.];
Performer: Helene Whitney [Margaret] - Replacement Dec 6, 1956 - Nov 30, 1957
Performer: Helene Whitney [Singer] Oct 12, 1950 - May 3, 1952
Performer: Helene Whitney [An Actress];
Performer: Helene Whitney [Singer];
Performer: Helene Whitney [The Lover's Girlfriend] Jul 15, 1949 - Apr 8, 1950
Performer: Helene Whitney [Singer] Oct 9, 1947 - Jul 2, 1949
Performer: Helene Whitney [Lucille];
Performer: Helene Whitney [Singing Ensemble] Sep 5, 1946 - Oct 5, 1946
United States
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actress who appeared in films in the late 1930s and 1940s.
Biography
Whitney was born Kenyon Fortescue in 1914, but was known as Helene. Through her mother Grace Fortescue (1883–1979), she was a grandniece (and cousin twice removed) of Alexander Graham BellAlexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone....
, who invented the telephone.
Through her father Granville Roland Fortescue
Granville Roland Fortescue
Granville Roland Fortescue was an American soldier, a Rough Rider serving with his cousin, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in Cuba, a presidential aide in the first Roosevelt administration and later, a journalist and war correspondent for the London Standard during the Rif War in 1920 Spanish Morocco...
(1875–1952), she was cousin once removed of US President Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...
.
She grew up in Washington DC where she attended the National Cathedral School for Girls
National Cathedral School
National Cathedral School is an independent Episcopal private day school for girls located on the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C...
. She married Julian Louis Reynolds (born 1910), son of Richard S. Reynolds, Sr.
Richard S. Reynolds, Sr.
Richard Samuel Reynolds, Sr. was the founder of the U.S. Foil Company.Reynolds was born on August 15, 1881 in Madison County, NC. He was the nephew of leading tobacco producer R.J. Reynolds and the son of Major Abraham David Reynolds . He married Julia Louise Parham on December 21, 1904. Reynolds...
and heir to the Reynolds
Reynolds Metals
Reynolds Group Holdings is an American packaging company with its roots in the Reynolds Metals Company, was the second largest aluminum company in the United States, and the third largest in the world...
aluminum and tobacco fortunes, on July 15, 1936 in Washington, becoming Helene Fortescue Reynolds. After three years of marriage, they divorced in May 1939. She became an actress, using the stage names of Joyce Gardner, Helene Whitney and Helene Reynolds, appeared in films in the late 1930s and 1940s and later in stage productions. After her acting career ended, she became a Manhattan art gallery proprietor and artist in the 1960s. She died of pneumonia at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Atlantis, Florida
Atlantis, Florida
Atlantis is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The population was 2,005 at the 2000 census. According to the U.S Census estimates of 2005, the city had a population of 2,142.-Geography:Atlantis is located at ....
on March 28, 1990.
Filmography
As Helene Whitney/Helen Whitney| Year | Title | Role | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 1939 in film The year 1939 in motion pictures can be justified as being called the most outstanding one ever, when it comes to the high quality and high attendance at the large set of the best films that premiered in the year .- Events :Motion picture historians and film often rate... |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939 film) The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1939 American monochrome film starring Charles Laughton as Quasimodo and Maureen O'Hara as Esmeralda. It was directed by William Dieterle and produced by Pandro S. Berman... |
Fleur de Lys | NYT | |
| 1940 1940 in film The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney classics Pinocchio and Fantasia.-Events:*February 7 - Walt Disney's animated film Pinocchio is released.... |
The Saint's Double Trouble The Saint's Double Trouble The Saint's Double Trouble is a 1940 action-adventure film produced by RKO Pictures. The film stars George Sanders as Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint", a master criminal turned crime-fighter, and features horror film legend Bela Lugosi as "The Partner"... |
Anne Bitts | IMdb | |
| 1940 1940 in film The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney classics Pinocchio and Fantasia.-Events:*February 7 - Walt Disney's animated film Pinocchio is released.... |
Millionaire Playboy | aka Glamour Glamour (presentation) Glamour originally was a magical-occult spell cast on somebody to make them believe that something or somebody was attractive. In the late 19th century terminology a non magical item used to help create a more attractive appearance gradually became 'a glamour'... Boy Boy A boy is a young male human , as contrasted to its female counterpart, girl, or an adult male, a man.The term "boy" is primarily used to indicate biological sex distinctions, cultural gender role distinctions or both... (UK) |
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| 1940 1940 in film The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney classics Pinocchio and Fantasia.-Events:*February 7 - Walt Disney's animated film Pinocchio is released.... |
The Philadelphia Story | Main Line Society Society A society, or a human society, is a group of people related to each other through persistent relations, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or virtual territory, subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations... Woman Woman A woman , pl: women is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent... |
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| 1941 1941 in film The year 1941 in film involved some significant events.-Events:Citizen Kane, consistently rated as one of the greatest films of all time, was released in 1941.-Top grossing films :-Academy Awards:... |
City of Missing Girls City of Missing Girls - Cast :*H.B. Warner as Police Capt. "Mac" McVeigh*Astrid Allwyn as Nora Page*John Archer as Assistant D.A. James J. Horton*Sarah Padden as Mrs. Randolph*Philip Van Zandt as King Peterson*George Rosener as Police Officer 'Copper' Dugan... |
Katherine Crawford | IMdb | |
As Helene Reynolds
| Year | Title | Role | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 1941 in film The year 1941 in film involved some significant events.-Events:Citizen Kane, consistently rated as one of the greatest films of all time, was released in 1941.-Top grossing films :-Academy Awards:... |
Confirm or Deny Confirm or Deny Confirm or Deny is a 1941 film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Archie Mayo, and starring by Don Ameche and Joan Bennett. The screenplay was written by Jo Swerling, based on a story by Samuel Fuller and Henry Wales.-Main cast:... |
Dorothy | IMdb | |
| 1941 1941 in film The year 1941 in film involved some significant events.-Events:Citizen Kane, consistently rated as one of the greatest films of all time, was released in 1941.-Top grossing films :-Academy Awards:... |
Blue, White, and Perfect | Helen Shaw | NYT | |
| 1942 1942 in film The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, Casablanca.-Events:... |
Girl Trouble Girl Trouble (1942 film) Girl Trouble is a 1942 comedy film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Harold D. Schuster, and starring Don Ameche and Joan Bennett.-Plot:... |
Helen Martin | IMdb | |
| 1942 1942 in film The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, Casablanca.-Events:... |
Roxie Hart Roxie Hart (film) Roxie Hart is a 1942 film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Nigel Bruce, Phil Silvers, William Frawley, and Spring Byington.... |
Velma Wall | IMdb | |
| 1942 1942 in film The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, Casablanca.-Events:... |
Tales of Manhattan Tales of Manhattan Tales of Manhattan is a 1942 American anthology film directed by Julien Duvivier. Thirteen writers, including Ben Hecht, Alan Campbell, Ferenc Molnár, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Donald Ogden Stewart worked on the six stories in this film.-Cast:... |
Actress | IMdb | |
| 1942 1942 in film The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, Casablanca.-Events:... |
Moontide Moontide Moontide is a 1942 drama film about a man who fears he has committed a murder when he was drunk. It stars Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, and Thomas Mitchell. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Willard Robertson.Charles G... |
Woman in boat | IMdb | |
| 1942 1942 in film The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, Casablanca.-Events:... |
The Man Who Wouldn't Die The Man Who Wouldn't Die The Man Who Wouldn't Die is the title of a 1995 action mystery film by director Bill Condon. The film, which aired as a movie of the week during the May Sweeps in 1995, stars Roger Moore, Nancy Allen and Malcolm McDowell... |
Anna Wolff | NYT | |
| 1943 1943 in film The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 3 - 1st missing persons telecast * February 20 - American film studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor films.... |
Dixie Dugan | Jean Patterson | IMdb | |
| 1943 1943 in film The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 3 - 1st missing persons telecast * February 20 - American film studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor films.... |
Heaven Can Wait Heaven Can Wait (1943 film) Heaven Can Wait is a 1943 American comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The screenplay was by Samson Raphaelson based on the play Birthday by Leslie Bush-Fekete. The music score was by Alfred Newman and the cinematography by Edward Cronjager.The film tells the story of a man who has... |
Peggy Nash | IMdb | |
| 1943 1943 in film The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 3 - 1st missing persons telecast * February 20 - American film studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor films.... |
Wintertime Wintertime Wintertime is a 1943 Twentieth Century-Fox musical film starring Sonja Henie and Cesar Romero, and featuring Woody Herman and His Orchestra.-Cast:*Sonja Henie ... Nora Ostgaard*Jack Oakie ... Skip Hutton*Cesar Romero ... Brad Barton... |
Marian Daly (uncredited) | NYT | |
| 1943 1943 in film The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 3 - 1st missing persons telecast * February 20 - American film studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor films.... |
The Meanest Man in the World | Wife (Park Ave. Neighbor) | IMdb | |
| 1944 1944 in film The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, award-winning Going My Way plus popular murder mysteries such as Double Indemnity, Gaslight and Laura.-Events:*July 20 - Since You Went Away is released.... |
Bermuda Mystery | Angela | IMdb | |
Television
As Helene Reynolds| Year | Title | Role | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 1945 in television The year 1945 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1945.-Events:*The final months of World War II continued to disrupt television operations in Europe until July.*October 1 – The U.S... |
The Front Page | Mollie Malloy | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309615/ | |
| 1948 1948 in film The year 1948 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Laurence Olivier's Hamlet becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :... |
Mirage in Manhattan (The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre) | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0540022/ | ||
Stage
- Oh, Captain!Oh, Captain!Oh, Captain! is a musical comedy based on the film The Captain's Paradise, which had been written by Alec Coppel and Nicholas Phipps. The film starred Alec Guinness as a philandering ship's captain, with a wife in one port and a mistress in another. The musical starred Tony Randall, and updated the...
[Original, Musical, Comedy]
Performer: Helene Whitney [English Townsperson, Dockworker, Tourist, Parisian];
Understudy: Helene Whitney [Mae] Feb 4, 1958 - Jul 19, 1958
- Happy HuntingHappy HuntingHappy Hunting is a 1956 musical with a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, lyrics by Matt Dubey, and music by Harold Karr. The plot focuses on wealthy Philadelphia Main Line widow Liz Livingstone and her efforts to find a royal husband for her daughter Beth.-Plot:Liz Livingston and her...
[Original, Musical, Comedy]
Performer: Helene Whitney [Singer];
Understudy: Helene Whitney [Mrs. B.];
Understudy: Helene Whitney [Mrs. D.];
Understudy: Helene Whitney [Mrs. L.];
Performer: Helene Whitney [Margaret] - Replacement Dec 6, 1956 - Nov 30, 1957
- Call Me MadamCall Me MadamCall Me Madam is a musical with a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin.A satire on politics and foreign affairs that spoofs America's penchant for lending billions of dollars to needy countries, it centers on Sally Adams, a well-meaning but ill-informed...
[Original, Musical, Comedy]
Performer: Helene Whitney [Singer] Oct 12, 1950 - May 3, 1952
- Miss LibertyMiss LibertyMiss Liberty is a musical with a book by Robert E. Sherwood and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. It is based on the sculpting of the Statue of Liberty in 1886...
[Original, Musical, Comedy]
Performer: Helene Whitney [An Actress];
Performer: Helene Whitney [Singer];
Performer: Helene Whitney [The Lover's Girlfriend] Jul 15, 1949 - Apr 8, 1950
- High Button ShoesHigh Button ShoesHigh Button Shoes is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn and book by George Abbott and Stephen Longstreet. It was based on the semi-autobiographical 1946 novel The Sisters Liked Them Handsome by Longstreet...
[Original, Musical, Comedy]
Performer: Helene Whitney [Singer] Oct 9, 1947 - Jul 2, 1949
- Yours Is My Heart [Original, Musical, Operetta]
Performer: Helene Whitney [Lucille];
Performer: Helene Whitney [Singing Ensemble] Sep 5, 1946 - Oct 5, 1946