Helen Gallagher
Helen Gallagher was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States on July 19th, 1926 and is the Stage Actress. At the age of 98, Helen Gallagher biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Helen Gallagher (born July 19, 1926) is an American actress, dancer, and singer.
Early years
Born in Brooklyn, she was raised in Scarsdale, New York, and the Bronx. Her parents separated and she was raised by an aunt. She suffered from asthma.
Career
Gallagher was known as a Broadway performer for decades. She appeared in Make a Wish, Hazel Flagg, Portofino, High Button Shoes, and Sweet Charity (for which she received a Tony Award nomination for Featured Actress in a Musical) in 1967, later reprising the title role and ending the original Broadway run. She also appeared in Cry for Us All.
In 1952, she received a Tony Award for her efforts in Pal Joey's revival. She received her second Tony Award in 1971 for her role in the revival of the musical No. No. Nanette. Through its appearance on the Tony Awards television broadcast, her song-and-dance number with Bobby Van from that show, "You Can Dance with Any Girl," is preserved on youtube. Sue Smith played Sue Smith in the Papermill Playhouse revival of the show, playing the part where Keeler appeared a quarter century ago.
In 1953, she appeared in Hazel Flagg, based on the 1937 Carole Lombard film Nothing Sacred, for her first appearance on Broadway. For Life, she was shot in a feature-photo shoot. Gallagher appeared in the 1977 film Roseland opposite Christopher Walken. On The Bell Telephone Hour, she was an aficionada of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Despite extensive Broadway experience, she is perhaps best known as matriarch Maeve Ryan on Ryan's Hope, a role she played for the entire duration of the show from 1975 to 1989. She was nominated for five Daytime Emmy Awards for her work on the serial, winning in 1976, 1977, and 1988.
Gallagher, a singer from Ryan's Hope, began singing in her house three times a week. Michael Hawkins, who appeared as Frank Ryan on the first Frank Ryan, was one of her students.
The ratings dropped sharply as the show progressed into the 1980s. Claire Labine, one of ABC executives who cancelled Ryan's Hope, sang "Danny Boy" after Maeve's final episode at the family bar. Almost immediately after Ryan's cancellation of Hope, Gallagher's Two-Day Guest on Another World, Gallagher's appearance in Both My Children as a strict nurse and as a sex therapist on One Life to Live (his son married Dr. Dorian Lord). She has performed in various off-Broadway and professional theater companies.
Gallagher appeared in Tallulah, a musical stage biography of actress Tallulah Bankhead, in 1984. She appeared on Law & Order and The Cosby Mysteries in the 1990s. She appeared in the independent LGBT-themed drama film Neptune's Rocking Horse in 1997.
She is currently a faculty member of Herbert Berghof Studio in New York City.