Helen Dunbar
Acting
Biography
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Born: October 9, 1863
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Fine Manners
The film depicts what happens when a rich boy accidentally meets a crude girl on New Year's Eve.
Beyond the Rocks
A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her unhappy honeymoon.
The Squaw Man
Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming with a young Native-American. This is the 1918 remake of the 1913 original, the first feature length Hollywood film. It is considered to be a lost film with only one reel still extant.
Billy McGrath on Broadway
John Steppling is Billy McGrath in this popular series directed by Archer McMackin, of which this is the only existing example. Billy wants to be a Broadway producer but finds is isn't so easy.
Dawn and Twilight
A blind violinist's sight is restored by an operation paid for by a young woman who loves him, but the fickleness of fate strikes them further tragic blows.
The Second in Command
Lt. Col. Anstruther vies for the attention of Muriel Mannering with Major Bingham. The latter tricks Anstruther into believing that the girl loves Bingham, when in reality she has refused the major's proposal of marriage. When Anstruther saves Bingham's life during the Boer war, the deceitful major finally tells the truth.
A Wolf Among Lambs
Don Fernando, smitten with Giulia, a Spanish dancer, persuades the young and innocent girl to run away with him. Valeska, the sister, finds a note on the table the following morning, telling her that Giulia has gone, never to return. Months later, however, Giulia returns to her home, having been deserted by her unfaithful lover. Giulia enters the convent. The sister meets Don Fernando some time later. He tries to influence the girl to marry him. Don Fernando's life is saved by Sister Valencia, who interferes just as Valeska is about to stab the villain. Valeska is later thrown into a dungeon by Fernando, who declares he will '"have her." The pretty Spanish girl does not stay in her prison long. Sister Valencia, discovering Valeska's whereabouts, gets her out of her prison in a clever way. Valeska then enters the convent, where her sister is overjoyed at the happy meeting, and ending.
The Fighting Coward
Southerner Tom Rumford was sent up north to be raised by relatives who happen to be Quakers. As a result, he returns home a passive, peace-loving young man, completely out of place in an area where men kill over issues of honor.
All Wrong
Salesman Warren Kent develops the idea of "The Unending Courtship" and manages to convince his new wife Betty of his theory, which entails their living separately and only meeting on Wednesday evenings, as they did while they were engaged. Warren's boss, however, who was never enamored of the idea, fires him when he bungles an account and loses the company a large order. On top of that, through a series of misunderstandings Warren comes to believe that his wife is pregnant and his mother-in-law believes that Warren is having an affair with Betty's friend Ethel. Things go downhill for Warren from there.
Filmography
as Mrs. Van Wye
as Aunt Agatha
as Mrs. Leland Bruckman
as Aunt Hattie
as Mrs. John Talbot
as Aunt Catherine
as Mrs. Graves
as Madame De Goncourt
as Mrs. Warren
as Mrs. Sturdevant
as Mrs. Evans Sr
as Mrs. Rumford
as Lady Henrietta Verdayne
as Aunt Mary
as Duenna
as Helen Dunbar
as Mrs. Floyd
as Aunt Agatha
as Lady Ada Fitzgerald
as Mrs. Deane
as Mrs. Burroughs
as Mrs. Ware
as Aunt Lucy
as Lady Crombie
as Mrs. Hargrave
as Constance Peel
as Aunt Louisa
as Mrs. Drake
as Mrs. Beverley
as Letitia Varden
as Lady Foulkes-Brent
as Mrs. Armour
as Mrs. William Vaughn
as Mrs. Smith-Parvis
as Old Mrs. Winthrop
as Mrs. Traverse, Her Mother
as Mrs. Channing
as Mrs. Donald Thompson
as Mrs. Rose
as Mrs. Oliver
as Mrs. Templeton
as Mrs. Warren
as Mrs. Blint
as Mrs. Arliss
as Dowager Countess
as Mrs. Crandall
as Mrs. Vanderpoel
as Jane Warren
as Lady Capulet
as Mrs. Ryerson
as Fanchette
as Mrs. Barclay
as Mrs. Carter
as Lady Marion
as Mrs. Conscience, John's Mother
as Mrs. Daniels
as Starr's Mother
as Lady Sarah Harburgh
as Aunt Yvonne
as Mrs. Worthington
as Mrs. Clymer
as Franchette - the Nurse
as Her Mother
as Captain Fane's Sister
as Mrs. Stuyvesant
as The Belle in Old Age
as Miss Milly Vincent
as Mrs. Delani - Pietro's Mother
as Mrs. Davenport - The Mother
as Sister Valencia
as The Widow
as Robert's Mother
as Mrs. Mahoney