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(Anne I. Helm)
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| 12 September 38 |
is born in Toronto, Canada, to banker John F. Helm and his wife Isabel
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is raised in St. Marguerite
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| c. 41 |
her brother, Peter, is born
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begins studying with the Canadian National Ballet in Toronto
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her father dies
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| 12 January 52 |
her half-brother, David, is born in Toronto, Canada. He will become actor David Francis de Eyre.
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| c. 52 |
moves with her mother and two brothers to New York City. There she enrolls at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School.
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becomes a John Robert Powers model
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is New York’s top teen-wear model
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| c. 53 |
is a chorus girl in a Bob Crosby summer show touring state fairs
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| c. 54 |
is a Copa girl, although legally underage at 16
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| 5 July 56 |
places third at the "Miss New York State" pageant held at the Palladium Amusement Park, Fort Lee, New Jersey. 18-year-old Kay Douglas is the winner; Carole Kregg places second.
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is supposed to grace the cover of Life, but is bumped off when a disaster strikes
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| 7 November 57 |
is in the opening of Clerambard, starring Claude Dauphin, at the Rooftop Theater
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| 14 February 58 |
is on Broadway in Cloud Seven opposite Martha Scott, Ralph Meeker, and John McGiver
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| Summer 58 |
is discovered for Hollywood with the "Shirley Temple's Storybook" segment "The Sleeping Beauty"
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| September 58 |
she and Paul Martin are cast for Broadway's upcoming The Power of Darkness
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| 19 November 58 |
opens in Edwin Booth, starring Jose Ferrer, at the Forty-sixth Street Theater
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| 29 September 59 |
is in the opening of Tolstoy's The Power of Darkness at the York Playhouse
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| c. 60 |
is in the pilot of "My Sister Eileen" but manages to extract herself from the show
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| September 60 |
she and her 19-year-old brother Peter are reported inheriting an unexpected $1,000,000. The fortune is left to them in the will of their grandfather, the late Walter J. Helm, a Canadian banker. Later she'll say: "The story was quite garbled. My grandfather died leaving a sizeable estate to my father. The implication was that the money would go directly to me, which isn't true. It was just a good headline - 'TV actress becomes heiress'."
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| 62 |
while filming Follow That Dream, she stays at Elvis Presley’s Los Angeles home for a few days
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will have only fond memories of her director in The Magic Sword, Bert I. Gordon
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often dates her co-star in The Magic Sword, Gary Lockwood. They are often joined by actress Tuesday Weld.
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dates her co-star in The Couch, Grant Williams
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| 64 |
loses her role in Strait-Jacket when star Joan Crawford decides she wants her friend Diane Baker to play Helm’s part. Anne takes it very personally.
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marries writer John Sherlock
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| 27 April 66 |
her son, Peter J., is born in California. He will become a second-unit director.
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| November 68 |
replaces Kathryn Hays, who falls off a horse while shooting a scene for "The FBI"
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| October 68 |
divorces Sherlock in Los Angeles
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| 11 May 72 |
marries actor Robert Viharo. He's 29; she's 33.
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| 7 August 73 |
her daughter, Serena L., is born in Los Angeles. She will become an actress-model.
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lives in Topanga, California
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works as a teacher with an afternoon school program in Santa Monica, California
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| 79 |
divorces Viharo
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| September 98 |
she and former Elvis co-stars Cynthia Pepper, Deborah Walley, and Suzanna Leigh take part in a fashion preview held in a Memphis, Tennessee, boutique
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| 99 |
her mailing address is P.O. Box 3131, South Pasadena, CA 91031
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Sources:
I Was a Monster Movie Maker by Tom Weaver, Starlet by Kim Holston, The New York Times, Florence Morning News, The Lima News, Mansfield News-Journal, Van Nuys News, The News, The Daily Courier, www.Ancestry.com |
Recommended Books:
I Was a Monster Movie Maker by Tom Weaver
Starlet by Kim Holston
The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool by Chris Strodder |
Links:
Filmography
Elvis' Women
Elvis! The King and His Court
Swingin' Chicks of the Sixties
Anne Helm at Spooky's Nightmare Mansion |
