Highest rated movie: Top Hat (1935)
Lowest rated movie: The Bride Walks Out (1936)
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Looking for reviews of Helen Broderick movies? Cinafilm has a total of 366 reviews across 8 movies.
Movies starring Helen Broderick have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 62%.
Top Hat - released in 1935 - is Helen Broderick's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 336 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Helen Broderick is The Bride Walks Out - released in 1936 - with a score of 41% based on 6 reviews.
Helen Broderick (August 11, 1891 - September 25, 1959) was a wonderfully funny character comedienne with vaudeville and stage experience, a close friend of Jeanne Eagels. The story goes, that at the age of 14 she ran away from home, because her mother, who appeared in operatic comedy, was totally obsessed by the theatre. Paradoxically, all the people she met turned out to be performers, and Helen (who needed to make a living, after all) ended up where she hadn't wanted to end up - on the stage.
She started out as a chorus girl in the first Ziegfeld Follies in 1907. Her talent for comedy was discovered quite by accident. In 1911, she was understudy to the actress Ina Claire in the Broadway play 'Jumping Jupiter'. One night, Claire was unable to perform and Helen Broderick stood in as the romantic lead. She soon had the audience in stitches, trampling about the stage like an elephant, rolling her big saucer eyes and attempting to croon 'Cuddle Near Me All Day Long' in her rather unique voice. The romance was no more and instead turned into a popular farce with Helen now permanently installed in the lead role. For a while, Helen partnered her husband, Lester Crawford, in vaudeville. In the 1920's, she enjoyed success on Broadway, most notably in 'Fifty Million Frenchmen' ( a role she took to Hollywood in 1931). Her best parts in the movies were as the perennial friend or chaperone of the heroine (an earlier Eve Arden), delivering acidic wisecracks in her inimitable dead-pan manner. She was particularly amusing in Top Hat (1935) and Swing Time (1936) with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; and in The Rage of Paris (1938) with Danielle Darrieux.
Helen Broderick has acted in films with Frank Mills, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Franchot Tone.
Helen Broderick has worked with these film directors: George Stevens, Frank Borzage, William A. Seiter and Mark Sandrich.
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