Helen Ferguson

1901-07-23 Decatur, Illinois, USA

Biografia

From Wikipedia Helen Ferguson (July 23, 1901 – March 14, 1977) was an American actress later turned publicist. Born in Decatur, Illinois in 1901, she graduated from Nicholas High School of Chicago and the Academy of Fine Arts. Ferguson was a newspaper reporter before entering the motion picture field. It is thought she made her debut in films in 1914, although her first recorded credits are in 1917. She soon starred in roles for Fox Film Corporation by 1920, which is when her career really took off with films such as Hungry Hearts (1922) for Samuel Goldwyn. She was cast mostly in westerns, comedies, and serials. She was selected as a WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1922. She married actor William Russell in 1925, but he died in 1929. The following year, she married wealthy banker Richard L. Hargreaves. Following her second marriage, she left films to concentrate on stage work, though she only received minimal success in this medium. In 1933, she left acting altogether to focus on publicity work, a job she became very successful in and which made her a major power in Hollywood, because she was representing such big name stars as Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, and Robert Taylor, among others. Ferguson represented actress Loretta Young for more than nineteen years. She kept reporters from needlessly disturbing Young and was considered one of the foremost "suppress agents" in Hollywood. In 1941, her second husband died, and she retired from publicity work in 1967. She died in Clearwater, Florida in 1977, aged 75. She is buried at Forest Lawn Glendale in Glendale, California. Helen Ferguson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures at 6153 Hollywood Blvd.

Películas

	Kid Millions	Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)	1934-11-10
	Poor Aubrey	Amy Piper	1930-01-30
	Scarlet Pages	Miss Hutchinson	1930-09-27
	Finders Keepers		1929-12-27
	In Old California	Dolores Radanell	1929-10-15
	Jaws of Steel	Mary Warren	1927-09-10
	Taxi! Taxi!	(uncredited)	1927-04-24
	Casey of the Coast Guard	Doris Warren	1926-02-14
	The Scarlet West	Nestina	1925-07-26
	The Cloud Rider	Zella Wingate	1925-02-15
	The Isle of Hope	Dorothy Duffy	1925-08-16
	Spook Ranch	Elvira	1925-09-20
	My Neighbor's Wife	Florence Keaton	1925-05-21
	The Valley of Hate	Millie Hendricks	1924-06-20
	The Right of the Strongest	Mary Elizabeth Dale	1924-04-07
	Valley of Hate	Millie Hendricks	1924-06-20
	Chalk Marks	Virginia Thompson	1924-09-14
	Within the Law	Helen Morris	1923-04-28
	Brass	Rosemary Church	1923-03-04
	The Famous Mrs. Fair	Peggy	1923-02-19
	The Unknown Purple	Ruth Marsh	1923-10-01
	Double Dealing	The Slavey	1923-05-21
	According to Hoyle	Doris Mead	1922-05-06
	The Crusader	Mary	1922-09-09
	The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922	Self	1922-03-15
	Hungry Hearts	Sara	1922-11-26
	Roughshod	Betty Lawson	1922-06-04
	The Flaming Hour	Lucille Danby	1922-12-12
	The Right Way	The Poor Boy's Sweetheart	1921-02-28
	The Call of the North	Elodie Albret	1921-11-27
	The Freeze-Out	Zoe Whipple	1921-04-09
	Straight from the Shoulder	Maggie	1921-06-19
	Miss Lulu Bett	Diana Deacon	1921-11-01
	To a Finish	Doris Lane	1921-08-21
	Burning Daylight	Dora	1920-01-01
	Shod with Fire	Ann Lytton	1920-02-09
	Going Some	Jean Chapin	1920-07-19
	The Mutiny of the Elsinore	Margaret West	1920-10-25
	The Challenge of the Law	Madeline Du Barre	1920-10-10
	Just Pals	Mary	1920-10-21
	The End of the Road	Maid	1919-02-16
	The Gamblers	Catherine Ames	1919-09-11
	The Lost Battalion	The Stenographer	1919-07-02
	The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns	Amy Gordon	1919-01-01
	Life's Greatest Problem	Miriam Craig	1918-11-03
	The Small Town Guy	Eleanor Ramsdell	1917-12-03
	Fools For Luck	Brunhilda	1917-10-08
	Filling His Own Shoes	Rosa	1917-06-11
	Gift o' Gab	Peggy Dinsmore	1917-11-26
	Temper		1915-07-13