Biography: Helen Mack |
A graduate of New York's Professional Childrens' School, Helen Mack appeared as a child actress in such Broadway productions as The Dybbuk and such films as Gloria Swanson's Zaza (1923); during this period, she was sometimes billed as Helen Macks. Her... more
Find videos of Helen MackFree Helen Mack videos- Movies (32)
- Videos
Cast: Helen Mack Richard Arlen
Length: 71min
Power Dive was the first release from Pine-Thomas Productions, marking the beginning of a long and fruitful association between Paramount Pictures and the "Two Dollar Bills," William Pine & William Thomas. The story concentrated on a group of test...
Cast: Rosalind Russell Cary Grant Howard Hawks Ralph Bellamy
Tags: Romantic Comedy Workplace Comedy Media Satire Screwball Comedy Comedy
Length: 92min
The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play +The Front Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson from a man to a woman, transforming the story into a scintillating battle of the sexes. Rosalind...
Cast: Bruce Cabot Jerome Cowan
Tags: Drama
Length: 71min
Marital entanglements provide the basis for this drama. The trouble begins as a woman prepares to marry her fifth husband, and former high school sweetie. Unfortunately he is already married. His wife begins divorce proceedings and sues for custody of...
Tags: Drama
Length: 61min
The lives of female hoboes in the Great Depression are chronicled in this interesting drama. In order to fully understand the travails of their existence, the governor's daughter dresses down and joins them. There in the hobo camps she experiences...
Cast: Edward S. Brophy
Tags: Detective Film Drama Mystery Crime
Length: 62min
Universal's old Show Boat sets are brought out of mothballs for the energetic "B" entry Gambling Ship. When honest gambler Steve Riley (Selmer Jackson) is murdered by his rivals, his pretty daughter Mollie (Helen Mack) takes over the operation of...
Cast: Victor Varconi Alison Skipworth
Tags: Message Movie Drama
Length: 65min
In this drama, a young man aspires to a life of wealth and power in the newspaper business. Unfortunately, it takes time and money to be successful. The young man's girl is not patient and decides to dump him in favor of a wealthy gangster. This...
Mystery of the White Room (1939)
Cast: John W. Boyle
Tags: Romance Crime Mystery Detective Film
Length: 57min
A typical, fast-paced Grade-B murder mystery, Mystery of the White Room was based on the then revolutionary medical breakthrough of corneal transplantation. After being rebuked by hospital administrator Dr. Morton (Addison Richards) for failing to...
Cast: Robert Kent Don "Red" Barry
Length: 67min
In this patriotic spy adventure, a young gangster joins an enemy espionage agency and agrees to enlist in the Marine Corps so he can pilfer the plans for a newly developed aerial torpedo. To get in, the crook steals an innocent young man's papers and...
Cast: Robert Cummings Lyle Talbot
Length: 63min
This drama chronicles the different paths taken by former partners in law. One of them, an avaricious attorney who will stop at nothing to find success, becomes a lawyer for the mob. His dreams are soon realized, but their achievement cost him his...
Tags: Crime
Length: 69min
The slick Universal programmer Secrets of a Nurse was based on a Collier's Magazine story by distinguished journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent...
Portions of Content Provided by All Movie Guide ®, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC.© 2009 All Media Guide, LLC.