Helen Menken Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Helen Menken Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Helen Menken (née Meinken; December , â€" March , ) was a major

American stage actress.Menken was born in New York City to a

German-French father, Frederick Meinken, and an Irish-born mother,

Mary Madden. Her parents were deaf, and her early communication came

via sign language. She did not begin talking until age . Her sister,

Grace Menken, was also an actress. At age , she was sent to a school

in Brighton, England.Before she turned , Menken performed in

vaudeville for a season, primarily playing character parts with her

brother-in-law. A dispute when the troupe was in Dallas led to her

walking out and joining a Shakespearean company that was also in

Dallas.Billed as Helen Meinken, Menken acted in in Brooklyn and in

with the Orpheum Players in Reading, Pennsylvania. She made her

Broadway theatre debut as a teenage actress in Parlor, Bedroom and

Bath (). Her greatest stage triumphs were Seventh Heaven in â€" (Janet

Gaynor played her role of Diane in the film version); Mary of

Scotland in â€" as Elizabeth I opposite Helen Hayes in the title role

(Katharine Hepburn played Mary in the film version); and The Old

Maid, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play that starred Menken and Judith

Anderson in . Bette Davis would play Menken's role as the spinster

with a secret in the film version. Menken's final Broadway appearance

was in an unsuccessful play named The Laughing Woman, which ran for

less than a month in .
Helen Menken Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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