Personal Info
Birth date
1906-06-21 (119 Years)
Day of death
1957-01-26
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
New York, New York, U.S.A.
Also known as
-Helene Costello
Biography
Helene Costello was an American stage and film actress, most notably of the silent era.
Filmography
The Black Swan
6.4
Overview:
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.Riffraff
5
Overview:
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie.The Show of Shows
5.5
Overview:
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!Public Hero Number 1
6.2
Overview:
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.Don Juan
6.5
Overview:
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.Cleopatra
3.5
Overview:
The fabled queen of Egypt's affair with Roman general Marc Antony is ultimately disastrous for both of them.The Midnight Taxi
5
Overview:
The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello, and Myrna Loy. It is unknown whether a sound copy survives, but a silent copy with no talking is in the care of the British Film Institute. The silent print runs just under 50 minutes. According to the Library of Congress, the film survives in British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive.In Old Kentucky
NYR
Overview:
Young Brierly struggles to save his father, Major Brierly, from the clutches of alcohol after the Great War. At the same time, he prepares Major Brierly's horse, which served bravely with the Major at the front, for the Kentucky Derby.Lights of New York
5.4
Overview:
Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.The Fatal Warning
3
Overview:
When a bank executive disappears, he is accused of stealing a fortune from the bank. But his daughter and her criminologist friend set out to find her father and clear his name.Finger Prints
NYR
Overview:
A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.Beau Brummel
NYR
Overview:
In the early part of the Nineteenth Century, Beau Brummell was the most talked-of person in all the world, the extreme of fashion, the personification of elegance and the most pretentious individual imaginable.The Heart of Maryland
NYR
Overview:
At the outbreak of the War Between the States, Maryland Calvert is loved by Maj. Alan Kendrick, son of a Virginia general, and Capt. Fulton Thorpe. Nancy, whom Thorpe has loved unwisely, follows him to Washington and commits suicide when she learns he will not marry her; as a result, Alan is forced to request his resignation. When Fort Sumter is fired upon, Alan, who admires Lincoln's principles, joins the Union Army though his father is among the Secessionist leaders; as a result, he is estranged from Maryland. Thorpe, who has joined the Confederacy as a spy, is responsible for Alan's arrest, but Maryland victoriously comes to his aid by ringing the alarm bell.Husbands for Rent
NYR
Overview:
A newlywed couple, after six months of marriage, decides that they've made a mistake and plan to divorce. Her father, however, has other ideas and hatches a plot to make them realize that they really do love each other and should stay married.The Evil Men Do
NYR
Overview:
As childhood sweethearts, David Horton and Beatrice Elton are inseparable. Fifteen years later Beatrice goes abroad and while there is heartbroken to learn that David has married Margaret Forsythe, a social climber, Margaret starts to entertain on a lavish scale.The Honeymoon Express
NYR
Overview:
The members of the Lambert household do not get along with each other, so Margaret and her youngest daughter Mary leave their home. Margaret becomes an interior director, resulting in her regaining her happiness. Margaret's son Lance becomes angry at his father, John, due to the people who are invited over to their home, and Lance starts a career with the help of his mother. Considered a lost film.Honeymoon Limited
6
Overview:
A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco.Lifting the Ban of Coventry
NYR
Overview:
Even though his widowed mother and sweetheart, Mary Putnam, disapprove, Worth Stuyvesant insists on going to West Point and becoming a soldier. Ultimately, Mary breaks off their engagement and Stuyvesant goes on a bender. His conduct is reported to the commander, who sends him to the sub post of Del Rio for 60 days of tour duty. There, Stuyvesant meets Lola Montez, an adventuress. With the help of a couple of her pals, Lola gets him drunk and marries him. But Stuyvesant lives up to his duties as a husband and surprisingly, Lola renounces her old ways and becomes a model wife.The Money Kings
NYR
Overview:
Three part chronicle of how the rumor of war triggers greed in some men and the comeuppance they suffer because of hubris.Some Steamer Scooping
NYR
Overview:
The Baron Lafitte is in love with and proposes to Adelaide Burton, daughter of Andrew Burton, a wealthy manufacturer. Clara Lane, a newspaper reporter, has been assigned to watch the movements of the Baron. She is further instructed to make a scoop of their movements. Tom Drake is in love with Clara, and is her persistent follower throughout.Bobbed Hair
NYR
Overview:
Mystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.Good Time Charley
NYR
Overview:
Song-and-dance man Charles Edward Keene (Good Time Charley) is bereft when his wife, Elaine, dies as a result of a fall incurred trying to evade the advances of Hartwell, her manager. Years later, his daughter, Rosita, becomes an overnight sensation as a result of her cafe act under Hartwell's management, and Charley is given a bit part in the show at her request.A Midsummer Night's Dream
4.844
Overview:
An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.The Troublesome Step-Daughters
4
Overview:
A widower with four grown daughters remarries and brings his new wife home to meet them. The girls set out to make life as difficult as possible for their new mother.Captain Barnacle's Legacy
NYR
Overview:
Captain Barnacle receives a letter telling him that Mr. Markham, a South African whose life he saved some years ago, has died, leaving him a legacy in money and some property and jewels in South Africa. The will stipulates that he shall visit the property in person.Auld Lang Syne
NYR
Overview:
Among the green hills of Scotland dwelt two farmer lads, Tammas and Geordie, fast friends tried and loyal as members of the same clan. They are both very much in love with Jenny, a little Scottish lass, and Geordie dreams of what might be if he were successful in his wooing.The Child Crusoes
NYR
Overview:
Jack, a little orphan, is anxious to become a sailor, and although Captain Rhines refuses to take him aboard his ship, manages to sneak in as a stowaway. When out to sea a few days, he is discovered, and is about to be disciplined, when the captain's daughter, May, intercedes. A terrific storm strikes them, and the ship is dashed to pieces. The captain, with the assistance of Jack, builds a little raft, and with little May, they set out for an island which they can hardly discern, as it is so many miles away. After drifting for many hours, they at last reach the island, which is inhabited by a savage tribe.The Geranium
NYR
Overview:
One glance at the poor and disordered home of the Tunisons shows us there is something still lacking. Mrs. Tunison is obliged to provide for her crippled daughter Ethel, her son, who does what he can to help her and her older daughter, who aids in every way possible. Daniel Briton, a young peddler, notices Ethel as he passes by, and gives her one of his wares, a geranium, for which she is very thankful. On successive days as the young peddler passes she waves her hand to him. One day he brings with him a doctor, who takes her to the hospital where she will get good care and attention. After a few weeks, Ethel is carried home in the arms of her generous friend, entirely restored to health. Everybody is made happy, and more so with Daniel, who marries one of Ethel's sisters.Millionaires
NYR
Overview:
Meyer Rubens and his wife, Esther, own a pressing-shop in New York's Lower East Side. Esther wants to move on up to the Upper West Side. She has a rich sister, Reba, who persuades Meyer to invest in the worthless oil stock sold by her husband. The stock proves to be not worthless and Meyer and Esther become overnight millionaires. But Reba thinks Meyer, who has no taste for high society, is holding her sister back socially, so she devises some schemes that involve catching Meyer in a compromising situation with other women, so her sister can file for a divorce.Acting
2022Just Show Folks as Toto
1942The Black Swan as Woman (uncredited)
1936Riffraff as Maizie
1935Honeymoon Limited as Mrs. Randall
1935Public Hero Number 1 as Convict Wife (uncredited)
1929The Show of Shows as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
1929The Fatal Warning as Dorothy Rogers
1929Innocents of Paris as Bit Role
1928The Circus Kid as Trixie
1928The Midnight Taxi as Nan Parker
1928Lights of New York as Kitty Lewis
1927Husbands for Rent as Molly Devoe
1927In Old Kentucky as Nancy Holden
1927Good Time Charley as Rosita Keene - Daughter
1927The Heart of Maryland as Nancy
1927The Broncho Twister as Paulita Brady
1927The Fortune Hunter as Josie Lockwood
1927Finger Prints as Jacqueline Norton
1926While London Sleeps as Dale Burke
1926Millionaires as Ida
1926The Honeymoon Express as Margaret Lambert
1926Don Juan as Rena - Adriana's Maid (uncredited)
1926The Love Toy as Princess Patricia
1925Bobbed Hair as (uncredited)
1925Ranger of the Big Pines as Virginia Weatherford
1915The Heart of Jim Brice as Unknown
1915Lifting the Ban of Coventry as Helen Stuyvesant - their child
1915The Evil Men Do as Beatrice - as a Little Girl
1914Too Much Burglar as Unknown
1914The Mysterious Lodger as Brent's Child
1914Etta of the Footlights as Unknown
1914Some Steamer Scooping as Helen Reigel
1913A Christmas Story as Bessie's Child
1913Fellow Voyagers as Little Helen Gray
1913Heartbroken Shep as Runa
1913The Hindoo Charm as Helen Tilbury - the Younger Child
1913Fortune's Turn as The Child
1913The One Good Turn as Unknown
1913Beau Brummel as Child (uncredited)
1912The Anarchist's Wife as Unknown
1912Cleopatra as Nicola - a Child
1912In the Garden Fair as Helen - Mrs. Rose's Daughter
1912The Toymaker as Another Child
1912The Irony of Fate as Third Child
1912Captain Barnacle's Legacy as The Little African Child
1912Wanted... a Grandmother as Phillip - Hale's Invalid Son
1912The Black Sheep as Clara Moreland as a Child
1912The Money Kings as Unknown
1912The Troublesome Step-Daughters as Unknown
1912The Days of Terror; or, In the Reign of Terror as Unknown
1912Lulu's Doctor as Unknown
1912At Scrogginses' Corner as Alice, as a Child
1912The First Violin as Helen - a Little Waif
1912The Meeting of the Ways as One of Tom's Children
1912Captain Jenks' Dilemma as One of Widow Brown's Children
1911A Reformed Santa Claus as The Widow's 2nd Child
1911Auld Lang Syne as The Child
1911Regeneration as The Ross Child
1911His Sister's Children as Boxer aka Toodle
1911The Child Crusoes as Unknown
1911Her Crowning Glory as Helen, the Child
1911The Geranium as Unknown
1911A Quaker Mother as The Harmon Daughter
1911Consuming Love; or, St. Valentine's Day in Greenaway Land as Unknown
1909A Midsummer Night's Dream as Fairy