Helene Chadwick

Helene Chadwick was born on Nov 25, 1897 in USA. Helene Chadwick's big-screen debut came with The Last of the Carnabys directed by William Parke in 1917. Helene Chadwick is known for A Star Is Born directed by William A. Wellman, Janet Gaynor stars as Esther Victoria Blodgett - aka Vicki Lester and Fredric March as Norman Maine. The upcoming new movie Helene Chadwick plays is A Star Is Born which will be released on Apr 27, 1937.

Helene Chadwick came from a very wealthy family in upstate New York (the town, Chadwick, was named after them), where her father owned a silk mill and her mother was an opera singer. On a visit to New York she was persuaded by an artist friend to pose for one of his paintings. A film producer saw the work, and after contacting Helene discovered that she was an experienced horsewoman, which is what he needed for a film he was shooting. He asked her if she'd be interested, she was, and soon she found herself making her film debut in The Challenge (1916) for Pathe. After a few more films she signed a contract with Goldwyn Pictures. She had a career of more than 20 years in the film industry, her last picture being Une étoile est née (1937), directed by her former husband, William A. Wellman, in which she had an uncredited bit part as a woman at a film preview. Tragically, she died in Los Angeles in 1940 from injuries she received in a fall. She was only 42 years old.