Helen Gilmore (1900 â€" October 8, 1947) was an American actress of
the stage and silent motion pictures from Chicago, Illinois. She left
acting to become a magazine editor.Gilmore came to New York City in
1917 and studied for a time at Columbia University. In 1922 she made
her acting debut in When We Were Young with Henry Hull. She appeared
with the stock company of George Cukor in Providence, Rhode Island. On
tour she acted in support of Bette Davis, William Hodge, Spencer
Tracy, and other stars.As an actress in silent films Gilmore appeared
in more than one hundred features, beginning with a role in Notoriety
in 1914. As Mrs. Hobbs, in A Petticoat Pilot (1918), Helen was
commended for her careful character study. The Paramount Pictures film
was directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon and was based on the novel by
Evelyn Lincoln. She played the head nurse in Too Much Business (1922).
This was a comedy which originated with a Saturday Evening Post story
by Earl Derr Biggers. In it Gilmore was cast with Elsa Lorimer and
Mack Fenton. Her final motion picture credit is for the role of a
motorist in the Laurel and Hardy short Two Tars (1928).Gilmore left
the theater in 1933. She became affiliated with Liberty. In 1938 she
was appointed editor of Movie Mirror Magazine, a Macfadden
publication. She became editor of Photoplay in 1941 after the
periodical merged with Movie Mirror. Her career as an editor lasted
approximately a decade.
the stage and silent motion pictures from Chicago, Illinois. She left
acting to become a magazine editor.Gilmore came to New York City in
1917 and studied for a time at Columbia University. In 1922 she made
her acting debut in When We Were Young with Henry Hull. She appeared
with the stock company of George Cukor in Providence, Rhode Island. On
tour she acted in support of Bette Davis, William Hodge, Spencer
Tracy, and other stars.As an actress in silent films Gilmore appeared
in more than one hundred features, beginning with a role in Notoriety
in 1914. As Mrs. Hobbs, in A Petticoat Pilot (1918), Helen was
commended for her careful character study. The Paramount Pictures film
was directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon and was based on the novel by
Evelyn Lincoln. She played the head nurse in Too Much Business (1922).
This was a comedy which originated with a Saturday Evening Post story
by Earl Derr Biggers. In it Gilmore was cast with Elsa Lorimer and
Mack Fenton. Her final motion picture credit is for the role of a
motorist in the Laurel and Hardy short Two Tars (1928).Gilmore left
the theater in 1933. She became affiliated with Liberty. In 1938 she
was appointed editor of Movie Mirror Magazine, a Macfadden
publication. She became editor of Photoplay in 1941 after the
periodical merged with Movie Mirror. Her career as an editor lasted
approximately a decade.
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