Helen Ware
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Helen Ware; born Helen Remer, was an American stage and film actress. She had a gradual but ultimately successful Broadway stage career and by her thirties was playing the character parts for which she became famous. She began playing character parts in silent films in 1914 and continued into the sound era. Like Louise Closser Hale
, Ware a raven haired woman for most of her stage career, adopted an all blond coif towards the late 1920s at the end of the silent era and into the talkies.
Her husband was the actor Frederick Burt.
Louise Closser Hale
Louise Closser Hale was an American actress, playwright and novelist.Louise Closser was born either in Springfield, Massachusetts or Chicago, Illinois . Her father was Joseph A. Closser, a wealthy grain dealer and her mother was Louise M. Closser...
, Ware a raven haired woman for most of her stage career, adopted an all blond coif towards the late 1920s at the end of the silent era and into the talkies.
Her husband was the actor Frederick Burt.
Partial filmography
- Your Girl and Mine: A Woman Suffrage Play (1914)
- The Price (1915)
- Cross Currents (1915)
- Secret Love (1916)
- The Garden of Allah (1916)
- The Haunted Pajamas (1917)
- National Red Cross Pageant (1917)
- Thieves' GoldThieves' GoldThieves' Gold is a 1918 Western film directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey. The film is considered to be lost.-Production:Thieves' Gold was released as a Universal Special Feature in 1918. It was a 50-minute silent film on five reels, part of the "Cheyenne Harry" series of film...
(1918) - The Deep Purple (1920)
- Colorado Pluck (1921)
- Beyond the RainbowBeyond the RainbowBeyond the Rainbow is an American silent film starring Billie Dove and Harry T. Morey. The film is also notable as the first film actress Clara Bow appeared in.-Synopsis:...
(1922) - FascinationFascination (1922 film)Fascination is a 1922 silent film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring his then wife Mae Murray. The story was an original one for the screen by Edmund Goulding, soon to be a prolific film director. The story captilizes on Murray's continuing forays into outlandish costume dramas...
(1922) - Mark of the Beast (1923)
- Soul-FireSoul-FireSoul-Fire is a 1925 silent drama starring Richard Barthelmess and Bessie Love. The film is directed by John S. Robertson and is based on a 1924 Broadway play called Great Music by Martin Brown. The film was funded by Barthelmess through his Inspiration Pictures and released by the First National...
(1925) - Napoleon's BarberNapoleon's BarberNapoleon's Barber is a 1928 short drama film directed by John Ford, and filmed in the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system.The film, Ford's first talkie, is now considered to be a lost film.-Cast:* Otto Matieson - Napoleon...
(1928) - New Year's Eve (1929)
- SpeakeasySpeakeasy (1929 film)__notoc__Speakeasy was an early talking sports drama film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and adapted by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan and Edwin J. Burke. The picture was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. Lola Lane and Paul Page played the lead roles. John Wayne, age 22, had a minor role...
(1929) - Slightly ScarletSlightly Scarlet (1930 film)Slightly Scarlet is a 1930 American comedy film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and Edwin H. Knopf and starring Evelyn Brent.- Cast :* Evelyn Brent as Lucy Stavrin* Clive Brook as Hon...
(1930) - Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln (film)Abraham Lincoln, also released under the title D. W. Griffith's 'Abraham Lincoln', is a biographical film about American president Abraham Lincoln directed by D. W. Griffith. It stars Walter Huston as Lincoln and Una Merkel, in her first talking role, as Ann Rutledge...
(1930) - I Take This WomanI Take This Woman (1931 film)I Take This Woman is a romance film starring Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard and released by Paramount Pictures.-Cast:*Gary Cooper as Tom McNair*Carole Lombard as Kay Dowling*Helen Ware as Aunt Bessie*Lester Vail as Herbert Forrest...
(1931) - The KeyholeThe Keyhole-Cast:* Kay Francis as Ann Brooks* George Brent as Mr. Neil Davis* Glenda Farrell as Dot* Monroe Owsley as Maurice Le Brun* Allen Jenkins as Hank Wales* Helen Ware as Portia Brooks* Henry Kolker as Schuyler Brooks* Ferdinand Gottschalk as Brooks' Lawyer...
(1933) - She Had to Say YesShe Had to Say YesShe Had to Say Yes is a 1933 pre-Code film directed by George Amy and Busby Berkley. It was Berkley's directorial debut. Loretta Young stars as a secretary who receives unwanted sexual advances when she is sent out on dates with her employer's clients...
(1933) - Morning Glory (1933)
- Sadie McKeeSadie McKeeSadie McKee is a 1934 motion picture, directed by Clarence Brown, and starring Joan Crawford, Gene Raymond, Franchot Tone and Edward Arnold. In the film, Crawford plays the title character—a young working girl suffering through three troubled relationships on her road to prosperity.-Synopsis:Sadie...
(1934) - Romance in ManhattanRomance in ManhattanRomance in Manhattan is an American comedy/romance film directed by Stephen Roberts, starring Francis Lederer and Ginger Rogers, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.- Plot :...
(1935)
External links
- Helen Ware at IMDb.com
- Helen Ware at IBDb.com
- Helen Ware portrait gallery NY Public Library B.Rose Collection
- Helen Ware portrait early in her career University of Louisville, Macauley Theater Collection
- Helen Ware in long pre World War I dress University of Louisville Macauley Theater Collection
- Helen Ware in The Actor's Birthday Book 3rd Edition by Johnson Briscoe
- Helen Ware stage and film portraits; University of Washington, Sayre collection