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Helen Gilmore
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Helen Gilmore (born Antoinette A. Field, c. 1872 – April 1936) was an American actress of the stage and silent motion pictures from Louisville, Kentucky. She appeared in over 140 films between 1913 and 1932.
In approximately 1872, Gilmore was born to Richard Field and Mary Cilia Daniels. In 1894, she toured with comic actor Stuart Robson's company, even substituting, on at least one occasion, for Mrs. Robson—the temporarily unavailable May Waldron—in the role of Adriana in Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. It was during that tour that Gilmore met and married fellow cast member (and fellow Kentuckian), Joseph B. Zahner, hurriedly tying the knot at New York's City Hall on Friday, July 13. Sca…
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Helen Gilmore (born Antoinette A. Field, c. 1872 – April 1936) was an American actress of the stage and silent motion pictures from Louisville, Kentucky. She appeared in over 140 films between 1913 and 1932. In approximately 1872, Gilmore was born to Richard Field and Mary Cilia Daniels. In 1894, she toured with comic actor Stuart Robson's company, even substituting, on at least one occasion, for Mrs. Robson—the temporarily unavailable May Waldron—in the role of Adriana in Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. It was during that tour that Gilmore met and married fellow cast member (and fellow Kentuckian), Joseph B. Zahner, hurriedly tying the knot at New York's City Hall on Friday, July 13. Scarcely five years later, Zahner, then 33, suffered a fatal heart attack. Between 1910 and 1913, Gilmore appeared on Broadway in 4 musical revues: Deems Taylor's The Echo, Manuel Klein's Around the World and Under Many Flags (both at the New York Hippodrome), and Oscar Straus's My Little Friend. Shortly thereafter, she made her screen debut in A Female Fagin. As Mrs. Hobbs in A Petticoat Pilot (1918), Gilmore was commended for her careful character study. The Paramount Pictures film was directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon and was based on the novel by Evelyn Lincoln. She played the head nurse in Too Much Business (1922). This was a comedy which originated with a Saturday Evening Post story by Earl Derr Biggers. In it Gilmore was cast with Elsa Lorimer and Mack Fenton. Her final motion picture credit is for the role of a motorist in the Laurel and Hardy short Two Tars (1928).
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Helen Gilmore's Filmography
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Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Shivering Shakespeare
as Woman in audience (uncredited)
Sensation Seekers
as Mrs. Todd
Bromo and Juliet
as Bit Role (uncredited)
Long Fliv the King
as Helga's Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)
Don Key (Son of Burro)
Say It with Babies
Madame Mystery
What's the World Coming To?
as A Neighbor
His Wooden Wedding
as (uncredited)
Should Sailors Marry?
as Train Passenger
Moonlight and Noses
Unfriendly Enemies
as Laughing Woman (uncredited)
No Poster
Sherlock Sleuth
as Haughty Guest's Wife
Chasing the Chaser
as The neighbor
Big Red Riding Hood
as Red Riding Hood
The Haunted Honeymoon
The Wages of Tin
as Meg's Mother
Laughing Ladies
as The Dentist's Assistant
Bungalow Boobs
as The Neighbor Wife
Sittin' Pretty
Short Kilts
as Mrs. McHungry
Stolen Goods
as Shopper (uncredited)
April Fool
as The Editor's Wife
The 'Fraidy Cat
as Lem Tucker's Mother (uncredited)
Zeb vs. Paprika
Postage Due
The Cowboy Sheik
as The cook
Just a Minute
as Caroline - the Mayor's Wife
All Wet
as Boarding house landlady (uncredited)
No Poster
It's a Joy!
as His Mother-in-Law
The Whole Truth
as The wife
Post No Bills
Safety Last!
as Department Store Customer (uncredited)
No Poster
Tight Shoes
Good Men and True
as Mrs. Fite
Impulse
as Mrs. Cameron
Never Weaken
as (uncredited)
Dangerous Paths
as Deborah Hammond
The Blazing Trail
as Village Talking Machine
Down Home
as Townswoman
No Poster
Fickle Women
as Mrs. Cullison
A Bashful Bigamist
as Uncle Oswald's Wife
His Royal Slyness
as Queen Razzamatazz
Captain Kidd's Kids
as The Girl's mother
Bumping Into Broadway
as 'Bearcat' the Landlady
Just Neighbors
as Old Woman with Packages (uncredited)
Take a Chance
as Landlady
Nothing But Trouble
Bees in His Bonnet
Two Scrambled
Bride and Gloom
That's Him
An Ozark Romance
Are Crooks Dishonest?
as Old lady in park
The City Slicker
as Girl's Mother
Hey There
It's a Wild Life
as The girl's mother
Pipe the Whiskers
Follow the Crowd
Huck and Tom
as Widow Douglas
A Petticoat Pilot
as Mrs. Hobbs
Tom Sawyer
as Widow Douglas
No Poster
Never Again
The Eagle's Mate
as Hagar Morne (as Helen Gillmore)