Helen Leslie

Helen Leslie (born Helen Riesing and sometimes known as Gracia Jaccard) was an American actress who was active in Hollywood during the silent era. She was briefly married to writer/director Jacques Jaccard.[1]

Helen Leslie
Born
Helen Gracia Riesing

May 20, 1894
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Died??
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Other namesGracia Jaccard
OccupationActress
Spouse(s)Jacques Jaccard (div.)

Biography

Helen was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to William Riesling and Frederika Childs.[2] She was still a teenager and beginning a career as an actress at Universal when she married writer/director Jacques Jaccard, who was about 10 years her senior.[3][4][5] The marriage was tumultuous and did not last, and it ended Helen's career as an actress. After the couple divorced, she seems to have dropped out of public life; it is unknown what became of her after 1930, when she was running the La Granada Apartments (729 S. Normandie Ave.) in Los Angeles's Koreatown neighborhood.[6]

Selected filmography
  • Stepping Out (1917)
  • Society's Hypocrites (1916)
  • The Gold Band (1916)
  • Ashes of Remembrance (1916)
  • If My Country Should Call (1916)
  • From the Rogue's Gallery (1916)
  • The Code of the Mounted (1916)
  • A Thousand Dollars a Week (1916)
  • The Sody Clerk (1916)
  • Timothy Dobbs, That's Me (1916)
  • Son o' the Stars (1916)
  • A Life at Stake (1915)
  • A Kentucky Idyll (1915)
  • The Shriek in the Night (1915)
  • The Weird Nemesis (1915)
  • From the Shadows (1915)
  • Fate's Alibi (1915)
  • The Toll of Youth (1915)
  • The Little Girl of the Attic (1915)
  • The Prophet of the Hills (1915)
  • Nature's Triumph (1915)
  • When the Spider Tore Loose (1915)
  • His Last Trick (1915)
  • The Bay of Seven Isles (1915)
  • To Redeem an Oath (1915)
  • Martin Lowe, Financier (1915)
  • The Temptation of Edwin Swayne (1915)
  • Pawns of Fate (1915)
  • The Big Sister's Christmas (1914)
  • The Widow's Last (1914)
  • The Link That Binds (1914)

References
  1. Cooper, Mark Garrett (2010-10-01). Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-09087-5.
  2. Photoplay: The Aristocrat of Motion Picture Magazines. Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company. 1915.
  3. "At the Stage Door". The Los Angeles Times. 27 Oct 1914. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  4. "At the Universal". The Los Angeles Times. 18 Oct 1914. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  5. "Poor Little Helen". The Los Angeles Times. 29 Jul 1915. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  6. "Blames Crime on Loneliness". The Los Angeles Times. 9 Jan 1922. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
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