At the peak of her flapper fame, there were Helen Kane dolls and Helen Kane lookalike contests.
Attended Saint Anselm's Parochial School in the Bronx during her childhood.
Earned $5,500 a week in the Oscar Hammerstein show, "Good Boy".
Ex-daughter-in-law of Gertrude Hoffman.
Her father was German, and her mother was an Irish woman who worked in a laundry facility.
Her mother's name was Ellen Dixon Schroeder.
In 1932 she filed suit against Max Fleischer, his studio and Paramount Pictures, charging unfair competition and wrongful appropriation for the Betty Boop cartoons. The trial dragged on for two years and, although the animated star was an obvious caricature of Helen, she lost the case.
In 1939, she married performer Dan Healy, with whom she had worked in the show "Good Boy", back in 1928. Together, they opened a restaurant in New York, known as "Healy's Grill". She remained married to Healy for the rest of her life.
She brought to life the Betty Boop character of Max Fleischer cartoons. The character was originally a dog with droopy ears and a similar squeaky voice. In 1932, the dog was transformed into the flapper we all adore.
She is buried in Veterans Cemetery, Farmingdale, Long Island.
Spent the early 1920s trouping in vaudeville as a singer and kickline dancer with a theater engagement called the "All Jazz Revue.".
Was on-stage professionally by the time she was 15, touring the Orpheum Circuit with The Marx Brothers.
Was the model for the famous cartoon character Betty Boop from the 1930s. Her trademark th song, "I Wanna Be Loved by You", was interspersed with Betty's famous "boop-boop-bedoops!".