Helene Millard (September 30, 1905 – September 20, 1974) was an American supporting actress of the 1930s and 1940s. Millard began acting on stage in Los Angeles when she was in the seventh grade. Millard left the Pasadena Players in July 1926 to go to Denver, where she had a one-year contract to perform with the Wilkes Stock Company. In 1928–29, Millard acted for six months with the Henry Duffy Players in the northwestern United States, after which she went to Los Angeles to co-star in ''The Hottentot''. On Broadway, Millard portrayed Sybil Weyman in ''A Roman Servant'' (1934). She started her film career in a featured role in 1929's '' The Thirteenth Chair''. During the 1930s, she appeared in 18 films, mostly in supporting or featured roles, but her roles diminished near the end of the decade. She made six films at the beginning of the 1940s, all in supporting roles, after which she left the film industry in 1942. She returned to films briefly in 1952–53, when she made four more films, before leaving the film industry for good. Her final film appearance was in a small role in '' Remains to Be Seen'' (1953), starring

June Allyson June Allyson (born Eleanor Geisman; October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006) was an American stage, film, and television actress. Allyson began her career in 1937 as a dancer in short subject films and on Broadway in 1938. She signed with MGM in 1943 ...

and

Van Johnson Charles Van Dell Johnson (August 25, 1916 – December 12, 2008) was an American actor and dancer. He had a prolific career in film, television, theatre and radio, which spanned over 50 years, from 1940 to 1992. He was a major star at Metr ...

. During the early 1950s, Millard appeared in several television shows before retiring for good in 1954 after an appearance on '' Topper''. She died on September 20, 1974, in Laguna Hills, California.

Filmography

(Per AFI database)(bad link) *'' Their Own Desire'' (1929) *'' The Thirteenth Chair'' (1929) *'' The Divorcee'' (1930) *'' Lawful Larceny'' (1930) *'' The Pay-Off'' (1930) *'' Don't Bet on Women'' (1931) *'' Doctors' Wives'' (1931) *'' Ladies of the Jury'' (1932) * '' False Faces'' (1932) *''

Lady with a Past ''Lady with a Past'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code romantic comedy film starring Constance Bennett as a shy and very proper young lady who decides to invent a scandalous past for herself to spice up her life. It is based on the ...

'' (1932) *'' The Fourth Horseman'' (1932) *'' By Whose Hand?'' (1932) *''

Broadway Bill ''Broadway Bill'' is a 1934 American comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy. Screenplay by Robert Riskin and based on the short story "Strictly Confidential" by Mark Hellinger, the film is about a ...

'' (1934) *'' Desirable'' (1934) *'' Break of Hearts'' (1935) *'' My American Wife'' (1936) *'' Her Husband Lies'' (1937) *'' Change of Heart'' (1938) *'' Letter of Introduction'' (1938) *'' The Women'' (1939) *'' The Night of Nights'' (1939) *'' Sporting Blood'' (1940) *'' Men Against the Sky'' (1940) *'' The Biscuit Eater'' (1940) *'' Nothing But the Truth'' (1941) *'' Unfinished Business'' (1941) *'' We Were Dancing'' (1942) *''And Now Tomorrow'' (1952) *'' Young Man with Ideas'' (1952) *'' The Clown'' (1953) *'' Remains to Be Seen'' (1953)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Millard, Helene 1905 births 1974 deaths Actresses from Minneapolis American film actresses American television actresses 20th-century American actresses American stage actresses Broadway theatre people Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract players