Helen Lindroth
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Helen Lindroth, born December 3, 1874, died October 5, 1956 in Boston, Massachusetts, was a Swedish
Sweden
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-born American
United States
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 screen and stage actress.

She acted on stage in New York
New York
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 before entering motion pictures with the Kalem Company
Kalem Company
The Kalem Company was an American film studio founded in New York City in 1907 by George Kleine, Samuel Long , and Frank J. Marion.The company immediately joined other studios in the Motion Picture Patents Company that held a monopoly on production and distribution...

 and Famous Players.
Lindroth performed in the film adaptation of The Swan
The Swan (1925 film)
The Swan is a 1925 silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Melville Baker's 1923 Broadway play adaptation, The Swan, of Ferenc Molnar's play A Hattyu Vigjatek Harom Felvonasbarn. This film was directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, a recent...

(1925) and in The Song and Dance Man (1926), produced by George M. Cohan
George M. Cohan
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.

Lindroth has ninety-six screen credits beginning with a role in the Battle of Pottsburg Bridge in 1912. Other films she appeared in include A Battle of Wits (1912), The Menace of Fate (1914), The Black Crook (1916), Shadows of Suspicion (1919), The Way of a Maid (1921), Unguarded Women (1924), and The Song and Dance Man (1926).

Lindroth gave up acting around 1936 and became associated with the Christian Science
Christian Science
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 Benevolent Association in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
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. She retired from this philanthropic work in 1953.

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