Helen Westley

Actor

About

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Also Known As

Henrietta Meserole Manney

Birth Place

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Born

March 28, 1875

Died

December 12, 1942

Filmography

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My Favorite Spy (1942)

The Smiling Ghost (1941)

Grandmother Bentley

Million Dollar Baby (1941)

Bedtime Story (1941)

Lady from Louisiana (1941)

Photos & Videos

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Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers

Show Boat (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

My Favorite Spy (1942)

The Smiling Ghost (1941)

Grandmother Bentley

Million Dollar Baby (1941)

Bedtime Story (1941)

Lady from Louisiana (1941)

Adam Had Four Sons (1941)

Cousin Philippa

Lillian Russell (1940)

Grandma Leonard

The Captain Is a Lady (1940)

All This, and Heaven Too (1940)

Madame Le Maire

Lady with Red Hair (1940)

Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)

Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)

Aunt Miranda Wilkins

The Baroness and the Butler (1938)

Countess Sandor

Keep Smiling (1938)

Mrs. Willoughby

Café Metropole (1937)

Margaret Ridgeway

I'll Take Romance (1937)

She Married an Artist (1937)

Martha Moriarity

Sing and Be Happy (1937)

Show Boat (1936)

Banjo on My Knee (1936)

Stowaway (1936)

Mrs. Caroline Drew

Half Angel (1936)

Mrs. [Martha] Hargraves

Roberta [also known as Minnie]

The Melody Lingers On (1935)

[Franceska] Manzoni

Captain Hurricane (1935)

Chasing Yesterday (1935)

Splendor (1935)

Mrs. Emmeline Lorrimore

The House of Rothschild (1934)

Gudula Rothschild

Death Takes a Holiday (1934)

Anne of Green Gables (1934)

Marilla [Cuthbert]

Moulin Rouge (1934)

The Age of Innocence (1934)

Granny [Manson] Mingott

Life Events

1915

Co-founded Greenwich Square Players

1918

Founded Theatre Guild

1934

Moved to Hollywood

Videos

Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers The big closing number, Shirley Temple with her frequent partner Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, an adaptation of the German standard by Leon Jessel, with a new lyric by Ballard MacDonald, cheered on by Paul Harvey, Jack Haley, Phyllis Brooks, Helen Westley, Slim Summerville, Gloria Stuart and Randolph Scott, in Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm, 1938.

Show Boat (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man Hard to pick the best part as Helen Morgan ("Julie"), brings first Irene Dunne ("Magnolia") then Hattie McDaniel ("Queenie") and Paul Robeson ("Joe") into her performance of "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, in Show Boat, 1936.

Baroness And The Butler, The (1938) -- (Movie Clip) The Results From Budapest As Hungary's Prime Minister (Henry Stephenson) dines with his wife (Helen Westley), son-in-law (Joseph Schildkraut) and daughter (Annabella), butler Johann (William Powell) has a secret revealed, in The Baroness And The Butler, 1938.

Age Of Innocence, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Straight Up And Down-ness The Wellands (Laura Hope Crews, Herbert Yost, Julie Haydon as "May"), and fiance` Newland (John Boles) with Grandmother (Helen Westley), worry about cousin Countess Olenska (Irene Dunne), who arrives with Beaufort (Lionel Atwill), in RKO's 1934 version of Edith Wharton's The Age Of Innocence.

Age Of Innocence, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Rude Little Wretch An 1870's New York society ball, scandalized American-born Polish Countess Olenska (Irene Dunne) is introduced, with grandmother Mingott (Helen Westley), uncouth Beaufort (Lionel Atwill) and ex-playmate Newland Archer (John Boles), in the 1934 version of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence.

Adam Had Four Sons -- (Movie Clip) You'll Have To Go Ruined in the panic of 1907, widower Adam (Warner Baxter), counseled by benevolent cousin Philippa (Helen Westley), breaks bad news to beloved governess Emilie (Ingrid Bergman), in Adam Had Four Sons, 1941.

Show Boat (1936) -- (Movie Clips) Our Heavy Man... With the show derailed by the "Hillbilly Patron," (Stanley Fields) Cap'n Andy (Charles Winninger) recaptures the audience with some inspired vamping in James Whale's Show Boat, 1936, from the Edna Ferber novel.

Roberta (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Le Marquis De Indiana Auditioning with the stranded band in Paris, Huck (Fred Astaire) is sure he sees old girlfriend Lizzie (Ginger Rogers), runs to buddy John (Randolph Scott), who explains she's a Polish countess, song by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach, early in Roberta, 1935.

Bedtime Story (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Thumbing Your Nose Actress Jane (Loretta Young) at her retirement party, making excuses for playwright husband Luke (Fredric March), who's not on the same page, agent Eddie (Robert Benchley) between, in Bedtime Story, 1942.

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