Helen Westley

Actress

Helen Westley was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States on March 28th, 1875 and is the Actress. At the age of 67, Helen Westley biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Henrietta Remsen Meserole Manney
Date of Birth
March 28, 1875
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Death Date
Dec 12, 1942 (age 67)
Zodiac Sign
Aries
Profession
Actor, Film Actor, Stage Actor
Helen Westley Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 67 years old, Helen Westley has this physical status:

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Weight
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Hair Color
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Build
Voluptuous
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Helen Westley Religion, Education, and Hobbies
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Helen Westley Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
John Westley (m. 1900; div. 1912)
Children
1
Dating / Affair
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Helen Westley Career

Westley's early career activities included performing in stock theater and in vaudeville around the United States. Her New York stage debut came on September 13, 1897, when she portrayed Angelina McKeagey in The Captain of the Nonesuch.

Westley was an organizer of the Washington Square Players, debuting with that group on February 19, 1915, as the Oyster in Another Interior. She was a founding member of the original board of the Theatre Guild, and appeared in many of its productions, among them Peer Gynt, and some of their productions of plays by George Bernard Shaw— Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma and The Apple Cart. She appeared in the original Broadway productions of two plays which, after her death, turned into classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals: Green Grow the Lilacs, which became Oklahoma!, and Liliom, which became Carousel. Westley played Aunt Eller in the former and Mrs. Muskat (who became Mrs. Mullin in Carousel) in the latter. She appeared in the original Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude.

Westley played roles, both comic and dramatic, in many films. They included Death Takes a Holiday, All This and Heaven Too, four films opposite child star Shirley Temple (including Dimples and Heidi), the 1934 surprise hit Anne of Green Gables, the 1935 film version of Roberta, and the 1936 film version of Show Boat, in which she replaced Edna May Oliver, when Oliver declined to repeat her stage role as Parthy Ann Hawks. She appeared in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm in 1938 with Shirley Temple and Randolph Scott as Aunt Miranda. In 1936, she played in Banjo on My Knee with Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan and Buddy Ebsen.

Westley's final film was My Favorite Spy.

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