The daughter of early movie matinee idol Maurice Costello and the younger sister of silent star Dolores Costello, Helene Costello made her first movie appearances as a child in her father's films. Helene's adult career followed many of the same paths previously trodden by her sister Dolores: modelling work in New York, dancing in George White's Scandals, and leading-lady assignments in several popular films of the 1920s. Helene co-starred in the first all-talking feature film, Lights of New York (1928); ironically, she proved to be an inadequate talkie actress, and her star quickly waned. For a brief period in the early 1930s, Helene was the wife of actor/director Lowell Sherman, and the sister-in-law of John Barrymore. Twenty-two years after appearing in her last film, Helene Costello died at age 53, suffering from the combined effects of pneumonia and tuberculosis.
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Public Hero No. 1
Actor |
1935 | |||
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Riff Raff
Actor |
1935 | |||
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Broken Barriers
Actor |
1929 | |||
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Innocents of Paris
Actor |
1929 | |||
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Show of Shows
Actor |
1929 | |||
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The Fatal Warning
Actor |
1929 | |||
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When Dreams Come True
Actor |
1929 | |||
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Burning up Broadway
Actor |
1928 | |||
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Comrades
Actor |
1928 | |||
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Lights of New York
Actor |
1928 | |||
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Phantom of the Turf
Actor |
1928 | |||
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The Circus Kid
Actor |
1928 | |||
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The Midnight Taxi
Actor |
1928 | |||
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Broncho Twister
Actor |
1927 | |||
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Finger Prints
Actor |
1927 | |||
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Good Time Charley
Actor |
1927 | |||
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Husbands for Rent
Actor |
1927 | |||
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In Old Kentucky
Actor |
1927 | |||
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The Fortune Hunter
Actor |
1927 | |||
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The Heart of Maryland
Actor |
1927 | |||
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Don Juan
Actor |
1926 | |||
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Honeymoon Express
Actor |
1926 | |||
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Millionaires
Actor |
1926 | |||
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The Love Toy
Actor |
1926 | |||
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Wet Paint
Actor |
1926 | |||
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While London Sleeps
Actor |
1926 | |||
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Ranger of the Big Pines
Actor |
1925 | |||
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The Man on the Box
Actor |
1925 | |||
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Rip Van Winkle
Actor |
1914 | |||
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At Scrogginse's Corner
Actor |
1912 | |||
| 1912 | ||||
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The Child Crusoes
Actor |
1911 | |||
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The Geranium
Actor |
1911 |