Helen Broderick


Helen Broderick was an American film and stage actress known for her comic roles, especially as a wisecracking sidekick.

Career

She began on Broadway as a chorus girl in the Follies of 1907, the first of Florenz Ziegfeld's annual revues. By the late 1920s, she was playing leads and featured roles, most notably in Fifty Million Frenchmen. In the early 1930s, she starred in the revues The Band Wagon and As Thousands Cheer. Her film roles included her stage successes made into movies: Fifty Million Frenchmen, the Astaire-Rogers movies Top Hat and Swing Time. She did leading roles in a few B movies, such as Murder on a Bridle Path.
The wife of actor Lester Crawford, they were the parents of Academy Award-winning actor Broderick Crawford.
Broderick's last appearance on film was with Deanna Durbin in the comedy Because of Him.

Death and interment

Broderick died after a stroke at the age of 68 on September 25, 1959. Her husband died in November 1962.

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