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37 Photos. Helen Walker was a beautiful and bright actress whose career never reached its full potential, in spite of her evident talent. She was a successful actress on Broadway, and in 1942 her performance in the play "Jason" was so impressive that she was signed up to act in films.
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- Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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- North Hollywood, California, USA
- Laraine Day
- Andrea King
- Janis Carter
- Gloria Grahame
- Elaine Stewart
- Peggy Diggins
- Cleo Moore
- Anne Gwynne
- Dolores Moran
- Helen Walker
Laraine Day ( 1920 – 2007 ) was an American actress and a former MGM contract star. Day was often referred to as “The First Lady of Baseball” as she was married to famed baseball manager Leo Durocher. Day was a lifelong Mormon, and never smoke or drank.
Andrea King (1919 – 2003) had a decent career in the fifties with leading roles in several film noirs (Dial 1119, Southside 1-1000 ) and a the sci-fi flick, Red Planet Mars (1952). She later played supporting roles with the likes of Gregory Peck and Clark Gable. By the 1960s, she stuck to appearances on TV shows, including the pilot episode of Colu...
Janis Carter (1913-1994) lasted 12 years in Hollywood, appearing in about thirty movies, before things started to wane. She hosted a TV game show, “Feather Your Nest” then, in the mid-fifties, got married and quit the acting game entirely.
Gloria Grahame (1923–1981) was on the fast track to major league stardom, but her controversial personality kept getting in the way. Her diva attitude on the set of Oklahoma!made her unemployable in Hollywood… and marrying her stepson didn’t help things either. While at her peak in the 1950s she was best known for her lips – called “the girl with t...
Elaine Stewart (1930-2011) had a successful run in the 1950s, then married game-show producer extraordinaire, Merrill Heatter. In the 1960s, when her movie career slipped, she co-hosted several game shows produced by her husband – Las Vegas Gambit (1972) with Wink Martindale and High Rollers(1975) with Alex Trebek.
Peggy Diggins was an American actress (1921-1957) of Irish descent who was brought into the Paramount fold and became a WW2 sweetheart of American forces overseas. Not long after “making it big” she got into photography, becoming a war correspondent and picture editor for a magazine. Sadly, she met an untimely end in an automobile accident at the y...
Cleo Moore (1924-1973) came from a prominent family in Louisiana. Her family followed the post-WW2 building boom out to California where she soon experienced a few bright few years in Hollywood. Unfortunately, some poor choices in movies which turned out to be bombs, ultimately ruined her acting career. But she was soon on her feet again, married a...
Anne Gwynne (1918-2003) was an American actress and considered one of the top five pinups with the American forces in WW2 as well as being one of the early ‘scream queens’ [House of Frankenstein (1944), Teenage Monster(1958)].
Dolores Moran (1926-1982) got her lucky break when she was employed as a car hop and an old millionaire, unbeknownst to her, left her $300k in his will (a lot of money now – a tonof money back then). She soon had a blossoming career in Hollywood… that is until she met up with an eccentric, controlling, Svengali husband who basically tanked her care...
Helen Walker (1920-1968) was making it big in Hollywood when tragedy struck. She had big parts in big movies: Brewster’s Millions (1945), the romantic interest of Fred MacMurray in Murder, He Says (1945), Nightmare Alley (1947)… then, on New Year’s Eve 1946, after just wrapping up Nightmare Alley, she picked up three hitch-hiking soldiers. Her car ...
Walker made her film debut in 1942's Lucky Jordan, a comedy starring Alan Ladd. She earned a solid reputation playing leading roles in comedies as what she termed a "reactress," a straight man to comic leads in films such as Brewster's Millions and Murder, He Says , both released in 1945.
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Helen Walker (born July 17, 1920 – March 10, 1968) was an American movie actress of the 1940s and 1950s. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and made her film debut in 1942. After a promising start in Hollywood, Walker was involved in a 1946 car wreck.
Description: Helen Walker was a beautiful and bright actress whose career never reached its full potential, in spite of her evident talent. She was a successful actress on Broadway, and in 1942 her performance in the play "Jason" was so impressive that she was signed up to act in films.
