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Helen Leslie (born Helen Riesing and sometimes known as Gracia Jaccard) was an American actress active in Hollywood during the silent era. She was briefly married to writer/director Jacques Jaccard.[1]
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| Born | Helen Gracia Riesing May 20, 1897 Indianapolis, Indiana, US |
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| Occupation | Actress |
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Biography
editHelen was born on May 20, 1897, in Indianapolis, Indiana, to William Riesling and Frederika Childs.[2]
She was 18 years old and continuing a career as an actress at Universal when she married writer/director Jacques Jaccard, 28 years old.[3][4][5] After her marriage, she gave up acting and her promising career. The marriage was tumultuous and did not last. After her divorce, [6][7][8] she dropped out of public life.
In 1930, she was running the La Granada Apartments in Los Angeles's Koreatown neighborhood.[6]
Selected filmography
edit- Stepping Out (1917)
- Society's Hypocrites (1916)
- The Gold Band (1916)
- Ashes of Remembrance (1916)
- If My Country Should Call (1916)
- From the Rogue's Gallery (1916)
- The Code of the Mounted (1916)
- A Thousand Dollars a Week (1916)
- The Sody Clerk (1916)
- Timothy Dobbs, That's Me (1916)
- Son o' the Stars (1916)
- A Life at Stake (1915)
- A Kentucky Idyll (1915)
- The Shriek in the Night (1915)
- The Weird Nemesis (1915)
- From the Shadows (1915)
- Fate's Alibi (1915)
- The Toll of Youth (1915)
- The Little Girl of the Attic (1915)
- The Prophet of the Hills (1915)
- Nature's Triumph (1915)
- When the Spider Tore Loose (1915)
- His Last Trick (1915)
- The Bay of Seven Isles (1915)
- To Redeem an Oath (1915)
- Martin Lowe, Financier (1915)
- The Temptation of Edwin Swayne (1915)
- Pawns of Fate (1915)
- The Big Sister's Christmas (1914)
- The Widow's Last (1914)
- The Link That Binds (1914)
References
edit- ^ Cooper, Mark Garrett (October 1, 2010). Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-09087-5.
- ^ Photoplay: The Aristocrat of Motion Picture Magazines. Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company. 1915.
- ^ "At the Stage Door". The Los Angeles Sunday Times (Los Angeles, California). October 27, 1914. p. 24. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "At the Universal". The Los Angeles Sunday Times (Los Angeles, California). October 18, 1914. p. 30. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Poor Little Helen". The Los Angeles Sunday Times (Los Angeles, California). July 29, 1915. p. 26. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Helen Leslie Wins Divorce". Variety. Variety Inc. December 3, 1924. p. 23. Archived from the original on June 30, 2021. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
- ^ "Matrimonial Seas Get Choppy in Filmland". Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California). May 17, 1925. p. 91. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Blames Crime on Loneliness". The Los Angeles Sunday Times (Los Angeles, California). January 9, 1922. p. 21. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.