Helen Vinson
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Helen Vinson (September 17, 1907 – October 7, 1999) was an American film actress, who appeared in 40 films between 1932 and 1945.
Vinson's screen career often featured her in roles in which she played the part of the other woman or (pre-Code) loose women with active romantic lives. Her first film role was Jewel Robbery (1932), which starred William Powell and Kay Francis. She appeared as Doris Delafield in The Kennel Murder Case, which starred Powell as Philo Vance. One of her memorable roles was in The Wedding Night (1935), when she played the wife of Gary Cooper's character and the rival of Anna Sten's, in a story about the Connecticut tobacco fields. Another performance was in the RKO film In Name Only (1939), in which she was cast as the treacherous friend of Carole Lombard, Kay Francis and Cary Grant's characters. Another standout role for Vinson was as an undercover federal agent posing as a femme fatale opposite Richard Cromwell in Universal Pictures's anti-Nazi action drama entitled, Enemy Agent (1940). She followed that role with that of Helen Draque in The Thin Man Goes Home. Vinson's film career ended in 1945.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Vinson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1560 Vine Street. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Vinson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
Movie
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
as Helen
1932
Movie
The Thin Man Goes Home
as Helena Draque
1944
Movie
In Name Only
as Suzanne
1939
Movie
The Kennel Murder Case
as Doris Delafield
1933
Movie
Jewel Robbery
as Marianne Horn
1932
Movie
Beyond Tomorrow
as Arlene Terry
1940
Movie
The Wedding Night
as Dora Barrett
1935
Movie
The Tunnel
as Varlia Lloyd
1935
Movie
Broadway Bill
as Margaret
1934
Movie
The Lady and the Monster
as Chloe Donovan
1944
Movie
The Little Giant
as Polly Cass
1933
Movie
The Power and the Glory
as Eve Borden
1933
Movie
Nothing but the Truth
as Linda Graham
1941
Movie
Vogues of 1938
as Mary Curson
1937
Movie
Lawyer Man
as Barbara "Babs" Bentley
1932
Movie
Torrid Zone
as Mrs. Gloria Anderson
1940
Movie
Two Against the World
as Corinne Walton
1932
Movie
They Call It Sin
as Enid Hollister
1932
Movie
Private Worlds
as Claire Monet
1935
Movie
The Life of Vergie Winters
as Laura Shadwell
1934
Movie
Live, Love and Learn
as Lily Chalmers
1937
Movie
The Captain Hates the Sea
as Janet Grayson
1934
Movie
Age of Indiscretion
as Eve Lenhart
1935
Movie
Married and in Love
as Doris Wilding
1940