Helen Twelvetrees Overview:

Actress, Helen Twelvetrees, was born Helen Marie Jurgens on Dec 25, 1908 in Brooklyn, NY. Twelvetrees died at the age of 49 on Feb 13, 1958 in Harrisburg, PA .

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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Radio.

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Pre-codes on DVD: Ginger Rogers in Professional Sweetheart (1930) and in Unashamed (1932)

By KC on Mar 13, 2019 From Classic Movies

There's nothing more welcome on my doorstep (apologies to my cats) than a package of pre-code films. Here's a pair of new releases from Warner Archive that I recently viewed: Professional Sweetheart (1930) This lively romantic comedy catches Ginger Rogers before musical fame, but already in the fu... Read full article


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Helen Twelvetrees Quotes:

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Charlie Riggs: Gee, Allie you're the swellest dame in this whole cockeyed world.
Allie Smith Riggs: Go wash your face. It's a sight.


Daisy: Take ya out to dinner tonight, Allie.
Allie Smith Riggs: Thank you, I'd love to have dinner with you. We'll go Dutch.
Daisy: Uh, uh. The boyfriend's entertaining, and he's got a guy that's crazy to meet you, Allie.
Allie Smith Riggs: A blind date? No thanks.
Daisy: Oh, this guy Pete's got ain't blind. Gee Allie, he'd go for ya in a big way.
Allie Smith Riggs: Well, I don't want to be gone for.
Daisy: [whining] Awww gosh. Aw gee, Allie, don't be a wet smack all your life.
Allie Smith Riggs: I'm not a wet smack, Daisy, I'm just particular who I go out with.
Daisy: How about giving Rudy Vallee a buzz?
Allie Smith Riggs: D'ya think he'd buzz back?


Mary Ellen Cameron: Well, Dad, if they think they're going water cattle here tonight, here's two Winchesters who'll say they ain't!


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Helen Twelvetrees Facts
She met her first husband, Clark Twelvetrees, while both were enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Art. They eloped to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1927. They both worked in New York's theatre town -- she as an actress and he as a stage manager -- but he couldn't get his acting career going and turned to alcohol. They divorced in 1931 and he died seven years later of acute alcoholism following a street brawl.

Her career was born after noted artist George Bradshaw Crandall painted a portrait of her which made the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. She was a student at New York's Art Student League at the time studying music, painting and drama.

Her father, Williams Jurgens, was advertising manager for the Brooklyn edition of the New York Evening Journal.

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