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Helen Menken (née Meinken; December 12, 1901 – March 27, 1966) was an American stage actress.
Actress Helen Menken was arrested with Mae West, married Humphrey Bogart, and produced the Stage Door Canteen in World War II.
Actress and producer Helen Menken made her Broadway debut in 1917. She took on a variety of roles throughout the 1920s and 1930s and became known for playing a lesbian in The Captive , for which she was arrested during a performance, and her role as Elizabeth I in Mary of Scotland .
Dec 24, 2015 · She was the queen of Broadway, a versatile perfectionist who actually achieved perfection -- night after night. In 1926, the beautiful and earthy Menken, who had just married a struggling young...
Actress: Stage Door Canteen. Helen Menken was born in New York to deaf parents. Her original name was Meinken, her New York-born father Frederick being of French/German extraction. Her mother, Mary Madden, was Irish-born.
Helen Menken. (1901—1966) Quick Reference. (1901–66), actress. Only five years old when she made her debut as a fairy in a 1906 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the attractive New Yorker continued her career ... From: Menken, Helen in The Oxford Companion to American Theatre » Subjects: Performing arts — Theatre.
Helen Menken, the actress, collapsed and died last night at The Lambs, 128 West 44th Street. She was 64 years old. Miss Menken, who had been in ill health and in semi-retirement for several...
American stage and radio actress. Born Dec 12, 1901, in New York, NY; died Mar 27, 1966, in New York, NY; m. Humphrey Bogart (actor, div.); m. Dr. Henry T. Smith (div.); m. George N. Richard.
Helen Menken with Basil Rathbone in the notorious production of "The Captive" in 1926.
Helen Menken (December 12, 1901 – March 27, 1966) was an American actress. She did some movies but was known mostly for stage plays. She began acting on Broadway around 1917. She was very active from the 1920s to the early 1940s.
