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Helen Gilmore
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Helen Gilmore (born Antoinette A. Field, c. 1872 – April 1936) was an American actress of the stage and silent motion pictures from Louisville, Kentucky. She appeared in over 140…
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Helen Gilmore (born Antoinette A. Field, c. 1872 – April 1936) was an American actress of the stage and silent motion pictures from Louisville, Kentucky. She appeared in over 140 films between 1913 and 1932. In approximately 1872, Gilmore was born to Richard Field and Mary Cilia Daniels. In 1894, she toured with comic actor Stuart Robson's company, even substituting, on at least one occasion, for Mrs. Robson—the temporarily unavailable May Waldron—in the role of Adriana in Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. It was during that tour that Gilmore met and married fellow cast member (and fellow Kentuckian), Joseph B. Zahner, hurriedly tying the knot at New York's City Hall on Friday, July 13. Scarcely five years later, Zahner, then 33, suffered a fatal heart attack. Between 1910 and 1913, Gilmore appeared on Broadway in 4 musical revues: Deems Taylor's The Echo, Manuel Klein's Around the World and Under Many Flags (both at the New York Hippodrome), and Oscar Straus's My Little Friend. Shortly thereafter, she made her screen debut in A Female Fagin. As Mrs. Hobbs in A Petticoat Pilot (1918), Gilmore 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).
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2024
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1930
Shivering Shakespeare
Movie Woman in audience (uncredited)
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1927
Sensation Seekers
Movie Mrs. Todd
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1926
Bromo and Juliet
Movie Bit Role (uncredited)
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1926
Long Fliv the King
Movie Helga's Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)
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1926
Don Key (Son of Burro)
Movie
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1926
Say It with Babies
Movie
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1926
Madame Mystery
Movie
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1926
What's the World Coming To?
Movie A Neighbor
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1925
His Wooden Wedding
Movie (uncredited)
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1925
Should Sailors Marry?
Movie Train Passenger
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1925
Moonlight and Noses
Movie
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1925
Unfriendly Enemies
Movie Laughing Woman (uncredited)
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1925
Sherlock Sleuth
Movie Haughty Guest's Wife
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1925
Chasing the Chaser
Movie The neighbor
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1925
Big Red Riding Hood
Movie Red Riding Hood
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1925
The Haunted Honeymoon
Movie
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1925
The Wages of Tin
Movie Meg's Mother
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1925
Laughing Ladies
Movie The Dentist's Assistant
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1924
Bungalow Boobs
Movie The Neighbor Wife
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1924
Sittin' Pretty
Movie
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1924
Short Kilts
Movie Mrs. McHungry
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1924
Stolen Goods
Movie Shopper (uncredited)
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1924
April Fool
Movie The Editor's Wife
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1924
The 'Fraidy Cat
Movie Lem Tucker's Mother (uncredited)
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1924
Zeb vs. Paprika
Movie
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1924
Postage Due
Movie
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1924
The Cowboy Sheik
Movie The cook
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1924
Just a Minute
Movie Caroline - the Mayor's Wife
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1924
All Wet
Movie Boarding house landlady (uncredited)
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1923
It's a Joy!
Movie His Mother-in-Law
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1923
The Whole Truth
Movie The wife
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1923
Post No Bills
Movie
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1923
Safety Last!
Movie Department Store Customer (uncredited)
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1923
Tight Shoes
Movie
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1922
Good Men and True
Movie Mrs. Fite
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1922
Impulse
Movie Mrs. Cameron
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1921
Never Weaken
Movie (uncredited)
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1921
Dangerous Paths
Movie Deborah Hammond
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1921
The Blazing Trail
Movie Village Talking Machine
