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The actress Helen Holmes began her film career already in 1912 and
became a popular actress. Her roles were often characterized by a independent,
resolute and resourceful character which led to physical emphasized appearances.
Before she beame a movie star she began as a photo model in order to
support her family for the living.
when the family moved from Chicago to Death Valley because of the illness
of her brother, this supported the growth of Helen Holmes to a tomboyish
teenager who looked for gold and followed other little adventures.
After the death of her brother she went to New York where she made her
stage debut. There she met the actress Mabel Normand who invited her to
Hollywood and paved the way for Helen Holmes to become a movie star.nete.
To her first movies belong "Kings Court" (12), "Hide and Seek" (13),
"A Fight to a Finish" (13), "The Smuggler" (13), "The Alibi" (13), "The
Runaway Freight" (13) and "The Express Car Mystery" (13).
She met the director J.P. Mcgowan in 1914 and they got married. They
shot several movies together and with "The Hazard of Helen" (14) they realised
a box-office hit which made Helen Holmes a big star.
They founded together their own production company and till 1919 realised
serial and feature movies successfully.
To these movies belong "A Man's Soul" (14), "Kaintucky Bill" (14),
"The Identification" (14), "The Operator at Black Rock" (14), "From Peril
to Peril" (14), "His Nemesis" (14), "The Girl and the Game" (15), "The
Railroad Raiders" (17), "The Lost Express" (17) and "The Fatal Fortune"
(19).
Her stardom diminished in the 20's and her role became smaller. In the
20's she took part in silent movies like "Ghost City" (21), "One Million
in Jewels" (23), "Stormy Seas" (23), "The Sign of the Cactus" (25), "Blood
and Steel" (25), "Whispering Smith" (26) and "The Open Switch" (26).
Afterwards she retired from the film business but kept active as a stage
actress till 1935. Together with her second husband, the stuntman Lloyd
A. Saunders, she also was an animal trainer for movies, an activity she
gave up again after the death of her husband in 1946.
Other movies with Helen Holmes:
Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life (13) Brought to Bay
(13) The Treachery of a Scar (13) Baffled, Not Beaten (13) The Flying Switch
(13) Birds of Prey (13) The Substitute Engineer (13) In Peril of His Life
(13) The Smuggler's Last Deal (13) The Monogrammed Cigarette (13) A Demand
for Justice (13) The Battle at Fort Laramie (13) The Hermit's Ruse (13)
The Silent Warning (13)The Stolen Tapestries (13) The Foot Print Clule
(13) Gild Edge Stocks (13) The Rajah's Jewels (14) Explosive "D" (14) Playing
for a Fortune (14) The County Seat War (14) A Million in Jewels (14) The
Delayed Special (14) The Refrigerator Car's Captive (14) Fast Freight 3205
(14) Under Desperation's Spur (14) The Stolen Rembrandt (14) The Nurse
and the Counterfeiter (14) The Conductor's Courtship (14) The Flaw in the
Alibi (14) A String of Pearls (14) The Express Messenger (14) The Rival
Railroad's Plot (14) Near Death's Door (14) The Car of Death (14) The Oil
Well Conspiracy (14) Into the Depths (14) Grouch, the Engineer (14) The
Lost Mail Sack (14) The Demon of the Rails (14) The Mettle of Jerry McGuire
(15) A Desperate Leap (15) When Rogues Fall Out (15) Whispering Smith (16)
Judith of the Cumberlands (16) Medicine Band (16) The Diamond Runners (16)
The Manager of the B & A (16) A Lass of the Lumberlands (16) The Tiger
Band (20) A Crook's Romance (21) Hills of Missing Men (22) The Lone Hand
(22) 40-Horse Hawkins (24) Fighting Fury (24) The Riddle Rider (24) Battling
Brewster (24) Outwitted (25) Barriers of the Law (25) Duped (25) Webs of
Steel (25) The Train Wreckers (25) The Fast Freight (26) Mistaken Orders
(26) The Lost Express (26) Crossed Signals (26) Perils of the Rail (26)
Writer:
The Yellow Star (15) A Fight to a Finish (15) A Desperate
Leap (15) When Rogues Fall Out (15)
The Girl and the Game (15)
Producer:
The Tiger Band (20) |
