Helene Stanley

Helene Stanley was born on Jul 17, 1929 in USA. Helene Stanley's big-screen debut came with The Star Maker directed by Roy Del Ruth in 1939. Helene Stanley is known for One Hundred and One Dalmatians directed by Clyde Geronimi, Rod Taylor stars as Pongo and J. Pat O'Malley as Colonel. The upcoming new movie Helene Stanley plays is One Hundred and One Dalmatians which will be released on Jan 25, 1961.

Dolores Diane (her first stage name) made her film debut at age 14 in Girls' Town (1942), a "B" picture from low-rent PRC, then played a series of juvenile roles at Universal in 1943-45 (sometimes as part of a teen dancing group known as The Jivin' Jacks and Jills). She worked at MGM (where her stage name became Helene Stanley) and elsewhere from 1945-50 and at 20th Century-Fox in 1952, but her roles never rose above starlet level. Her last role at MGM, notable if uncredited, was in Quand la ville dort (1950) as the sexy teenager who causes Doc's downfall. Her live-action cinema career ended with Dial Red O (1955), both English and German-language versions. However, in a second career she made major, if invisible, contributions to Disney animated features, which used live-action films as the basis for animation. Helene modeled Cendrillon (1950), La Belle au bois dormant (1959) and the young wife in Les 101 dalmatiens (1961). Amusingly, one critic complained that Cinderella was too "voluptuous"! Also for Disney, Helene appeared in the Davy Crockett TV-films as Davy's wife Polly. Helene was (briefly) the third wife of gangster Johnny Stompanato, whose subsequent fatal affair with Lana Turner made headlines. Her second marriage to David Niemetz, a Beverly Hills physician, was happier, and she formally retired from show business on the birth of her son in 1961. The cause of her 1990 death was not reported.