Helen Chandler Filmography

Radio Follies

Actors: Will Hay, Clifford Mollison, Helen Chandler

Synopsis: Will Hay heads a cast of nearly 40 popular British variety artists in Radio Parade of 1935. The magnificent supercilious Mr. Hay is cast as William Garland, a radio-station manager whose operation is in big financial trouble. Our hero is baled out by Jimmie Clare (Clifford Mollison), head of the Read More

It's a Bet

Actors: Helen Chandler, Gene Gerrard

Synopsis: In this drama, a reporter loses his job after he writes a story criticizing the police department for their inefficiency in locating missing people. He then takes a wager from a rival reporter who claims that he cannot stay in hiding for a month. If he wins, he will have a new job at a rival Read More

Long Lost Father

Actors: John Barrymore, Helen Chandler, Donald Cook, Alan Mowbray, Claude King

Synopsis: John Barrymore is the Long Lost Father in this lightweight seriocomedy. Barrymore is felicitously cast as Carl Bellairs, who is unexpectedly reunited with Lindsay Lane (Helen Chandler), the daughter he deserted years earlier. Not surprisingly, Lindsay wants nothing to do with her prodigal dad Read More

Midnight Alibi

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak, Helen Chandler

Synopsis: In this drama, a gambler must hide-out from the mob and ends up in a spinster's apartment. The old woman, is unused to company as she has spent her life in seclusion after a failed romance in her youth. When the crime lord is killed, the gambler, his younger brother, is arrested for the murder. To Read More

The Unfinished Symphony

Actors: Helen Chandler, Marta Eggerth, Hans Jaray, Ronald Squire, Beryl Laverick

Synopsis: Anthony Asquith filmed this biographical treatment of the life of his favorite composer, Franz Schubert. The joint Austrian-British production stars Hans Yaray as Schubert who, as the film opens, is a poor, unknown, struggling musical genius. He is having trouble finishing a symphony he has Read More

Dance Hall Hostess

Actors: Helen Chandler, Jason Robards, Sr., Eddie Nugent, Natalie Moorhead, Alberta Vaughn

The Worst Woman in Paris

Actors: Benita Hume, Adolphe Menjou, Harvey Stephens, Helen Chandler, Margaret Seddon

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, an American art student goes abroad to study and gets a reputation when she marries a wealthy shipping magnate. She eventually returns to her hometown. While en route, a train wreck occurs and she proves herself a heroine by helping out. She then finds herself falling in Read More

Goodbye Again

Actors: Joan Blondell, Genevieve Tobin, Helen Chandler, Ruth Donnelly, Wallace Ford

Synopsis: Famous author Kenneth Bixby (Warren William) would like to jump-start his romance with ex-sweetheart Julie (Genevieve Tobin). There are, however, at least two people who'd prefer that Bixby stick to writing and stay away from Julie. One is Julie's husband Harvey Wilson (Hugh Herbert); the other is Read More

Behind Jury Doors

Actors: John Davidson, Walter Miller, Rychard Cramer, Jessie Arnold, Louis Natheaux

Synopsis: Action specialist B. Reeves Eason cools his jets as director of Behind Jury Doors. William Collier Jr. plays a hotshot reporter assigned to cover the murder trial of a prominent doctor. Once he meets the doc's pretty daughter Helen Chandler, Collier vows to prove the defendant's innocence. Problem Read More

Alimony Madness

Actors: Helen Chandler, Edward Earle, Charlotte Merriam

Synopsis: A wife is on trial for murdering her husband's former spouse in this inexpensive melodrama from low-budget Mayfair Pictures Corp. In flashback, it is shown that Joan Armstrong (Helen Chandler), an unemployed stenographer, is hired to act as corespondent for architect John Thurman (Leon Waycoff Read More

Christopher Strong

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive, Billie Burke, Helen Chandler, Ralph Forbes

Synopsis: A prize-winning aviator (Katharine Hepburn) falls for the title character (Colin Clive), a British politician who is happily married. Both fall into a tempestuous affair, but are able to resist their urges. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Vanity Street

Actors: Charles Bickford, Helen Chandler, Mayo Methot, George Meeker, Arthur Hoyt

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a starving orphan deliberately breaks a store window in hopes that she'll be tossed in jail and get a hot meal. The arresting officer does feed her, but then he gets her a job dancing in the Follies. Eventually the girl falls madly in love with the policeman. Unfortunately, he Read More

Salvation Nell

Actors: Ralph Graves, Helen Chandler, Sally O'Neil, Jason Robards, Sr., DeWitt Jennings

Synopsis: In this religious (but not overbearingly so) drama, a good man gets involved with a woman who wants to marry the man who impregnated her. When the lout refuses, her good friend intervenes to defend her and accidently kills the other. As a result he is imprisoned for five years. Following his Read More

A House Divided

Actors: Walter Huston, Kent Douglass, Helen Chandler, Vivien Oakland, Frank S. Hagney

Synopsis: "A house divided against itself cannot stand" declared Abraham Lincoln; proof that a house divided can be repaired is provided in this early talkie effort from director William Wyler. Walter Huston plays alcoholic fisherman Seth Law, who, recently widowed, signs up for a mail-order bride. Ruth Read More

Fanny Foley Herself

Actors: Edna May Oliver, Hobart Bosworth, Helen Chandler, John Darrow, Rochelle Hudson

Synopsis: The inimitable Edna May Oliver makes a meal of the title role in the Technicolor backstage drama Fanny Foley Herself. The star is cast in the Marie Dressler-like role of a vaudeville performer who has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughters (Helen Chandler, Rochelle Hudson Read More

Dracula

Actors: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan

Synopsis: "I am....Drac-u-la. I bid you velcome." Thus does Bela Lugosi declare his presence in the 1931 screen version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Director Tod Browning invests most of his mood and atmosphere in the first two reels, which were based on the original Stoker novel; the rest of the film is a Read More

The Last Flight

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, David Manners, Johnny Mack Brown, Helen Chandler, Elliott Nugent

Synopsis: Curiously reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway's Sun Also Rises, The Last Flight dramatizes the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. Four Yankee army buddies (Richard Barthelmess, Johnny Mack Brown, David Manners and Elliot Nugent) are invalided out of service during World War One, victims of profound Read More

Daybreak

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Helen Chandler, Jean Hersholt, C. Aubrey Smith, William Bakewell

Synopsis: A man who unthinkingly sullied the honor of a virtuous girl now must deal with his own ethical downfall in this drama. Willi Kasder (Ramon Novarro) is a lieutenant in the Austrian Army who one night picks up an innocent young woman named Laura Taub (Helen Chandler). Willi shares several drinks Read More

Mothers Cry

Actors: Dorothy Peterson, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Edward Woods, Evelyn Knapp

Synopsis: The pain of raising children alone is presented in this tragedy that centers on the failure of a widowed mother of four bratty children to raise her children correctly. Each of them grows up to a sad adult life. One daughter endures a grim May-December marriage. One son, a talented architect, must Read More

Outward Bound

Actors: Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Beryl Mercer, Dudley Digges, Helen Chandler, Alec B. Francis

Synopsis: This unusual supernatural drama, based on a 1924 Broadway stage hit, concerns a disparate group of people who find themselves sailing to an unknown destination on a ship constantly shrouded in fog. Tom Prior (Leslie Howard) discovers that he's travelling with his ex-boss Mr. Lingley (Montagu Read More

Rough Romance

Actors: George O'Brien, Helen Chandler, Antonio Moreno, Noel Francis, Eddie Borden

Synopsis: Burgeoning western star George O'Brien starred in this lavishly mounted but otherwise quite commonplace Northwest melodrama about a crime-fighting lumberjack. A very young John Wayne (still known as Marian Morrison) can be glimpsed in a saloon scene. Wayne's fortunes would escalate later that year Read More

Mother's Boy

Actors: John T. Doyle, Beryl Mercer, Morton Downey, Sr., Brian Donlevy, Helen Chandler

Synopsis: Popular radio crooner Morton Downey (yes, the father of talk-show host Morton Downey Jr.) stars in this sentimental Jazz Singer wannabe. On the eve of his Broadway debut, singer Tommy O'Day (Downey) learns that his care-worn, self-sacrificing old mother (Beryl Mercer) is gravely ill. Without Read More

Salute

Actors: George O'Brien, William Janney, Frank Albertson, Ward Bond, Helen Chandler, Joyce Compton

Synopsis: One of the few pre-1930 John Ford films currently available, the part-talkie Salute was co-directed by Ford and David Butler. George O'Brien is cast as cadet John Randall, star player for the Army college football team. His principal gridiron opponent is Navy player Paul Randall (William Janney) Read More

The Sky Hawk

Actors: Helen Chandler, John Garrick, Gilbert Emery, Lennox Pawle, Billy Bevan

Synopsis: In this wartime adventure, a wealthy young pilot strays from his mission and stops to say good bye to his girl friend. Unfortunately his plane crashes and he is left paralyzed from the waist down. To make matters worse, while he recuperates, his character comes under close scrutiny. Eventually he Read More

Music Master

Actors: Alec B. Francis, Lois Moran, Neil Hamilton, Norman Trevor

Synopsis: The Music Master was based on the barnstorming David Belasco-David Warfield play of the same name. Alec B. Francis assumes the old Warfield role as Anton Von Barwig, an elderly musician eking out a meager existence in a Bohemian artists' colony. Years earlier, a cad had run off with Von Barwig's Read More

The Joy Girl

Actors: Olive Borden, Neil Hamilton, Marie Dressler, Mary Alden, Helen Chandler

Synopsis: This playful Allan Dwan effort stars Olive Borden as impulsive flapper Jewel Courage, who dumps the man she loves, a humble chauffeur (Jimmy Grainger Jr.) in favor of millionaire John Jeffrey Fleet (Neil Hamilton). Jewel soon discovers that Fleet is actually the chauffeur and her ex-beau is the Read More