Actress. She was a starry-eyed blonde beauty who was best known for playing the character roles of young women usually in horror films, crime films, romance films, comedy films, and dramatic films. She will be best remembered for playing the role of the fragile 'Mina Seward' in the classic horror film, "Dracula" (1931). The film which was directed by Tod Browning and Karl Freund, which was based on the novel and characters created by Bram Stoker, which was written for the screen by Hamilton Deane, and John L. Balderston, and which also starred Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan, Herbert Bunston, Frances Dade, Joan Standing, Charles K. Gerrard, Anna Bakacs, Bunny Beatty, Nicholas Bela, Daisy Belmore, William A. Boardway, Barbara Bozoky, Moon Carroll, Geraldine Dvorak, John George, Anita Harder, Carla Laemmle, Wyndham Standing, Cornelia Thaw, Dorothy Tree, Josefina Velez, Michael Visaroff, and Florence Wix, tells the story of a Transylvanian vampire named Count Dracula who bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London, England, estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night. She was born one of two children as Helen Louise Chandler to Leland Skidmore Chandler (1872-1958), and his wife Frances Agnes Murray Chandler (1888-1936), in Manhattan, New York, on February 1, 1906. She began her acting career by appearing on the stage including on Broadway in New York City, New York, in several stage productions of such plays as, 'Marjorie Jones' in "Penrod" (September 02, 1918, to October 12, 1918), as 'Agnes' in "The Light Of The World" (January 06, 1920, to February 1920), as 'Child of Clarence,' and 'Richard,' in "King Richard III" (March 06, 1920, to March 1920), as 'Marie Louise' in "Daddy Dumplins" (November 22, 1920, to January 1921), as 'Boy' in "Macbeth" (February 17, 1921, to March 1921), as 'Anabelle' in "The Potters" (December 08, 1923, to July 05, 1924), as 'Kate Thorn' in "The Steam Roller" (November 10, 1924, to December 1924), as 'Hedvig' in "The Wild Duck" (February 24, 1925, to May 1925), as 'Mary' in "The Servant In The House" (April 07, 1925, to April 1925), as 'Charity Clarkson' in "First Flight" (September 17, 1925, to September 1925), as 'Ophelia' in "Hamlet" (November 09, 1925, to January 1926), as 'Jane' in "The Moon Is A Gong" (March 12, 1926, to March 1926), as 'Mary Thorne' in "Pomeroy's Past" (April 19, 1926, to July 1926), as a performer in "The Constant Nymph" (December 09, 1926, to April 1927), as 'Dinah' in "Mr. Pim Passes By" (April 18, 1927, to August 1927), as 'Jacinta' in "Creoles" (September 22, 1927, to October 16, 1927), as 'Thora' in "The Ivory Door" (October 18, 1927, to July 1928), as a performer in "Show Boat" (December 27, 1927, to May 04, 1929), as a performer in "The Silent House" (February 07, 1928, to October 1928), as 'Margaret' in "Faust" (October 08, 1928, to November 17, 1928), as 'Cecily Reid' in "The Marriage Bed" (January 07, 1929, to March 1929), as 'Miss Smith' in "Springtime For Henry" (December 09, 1931, to May 1932), as 'Celia Desmond' in "These Two" (May 07, 1934, to May 1934), as 'Anne Vernon' in "It's You I Want" (February 05, 1935, to February 1935), as 'Angela Shale' in "The Dominant Sex" (April 01, 1935, to April 1935), as 'Jane Bennet' in "Pride And Prejudice" (November 05, 1935, to May 09, 1936), as 'Precious Stream' in "Lady Precious Stream" (January 27, 1936, to April 1936), as 'Shirley Holmes' in "The Holmeses Of Baker Street" (December 09, 1936, to January 1937), as 'Leni' in "The Man From Cairo" (May 04, 1938, to May 1938), and as 'Ann' in "Outward Bound" (December 22, 1938, to July 22, 1939). She made her actual film debut playing the role of 'Jenny' in the film drama, "The Music Master" (1927). The film which was directed by Allan Dwan, which was based on the play by David Belasco, and was written for the screen by Philip Klein, also starred Alec B. Francis, Neil Hamilton, Lois Moran, Norman Trevor, Marcia Harris, and Kathleen Kerrigan. Besides, playing the role of 'Jenny' in the film drama, "The Music Master" (1927), and playing the role of the fragile 'Mina Seward' in the classic horror film, "Dracula" (1931), her many other film credits include, "The Joy Girl" (1927), "Mother's Boy" (1927), "Salute" (1929), "The Sky Hawk" (1929), "Rough Romance" (1930), "Outward Bound" (1930), "Mother's Cry" (1930), "Daybreak" (1931), "Salvation Nell" (1931), "The Last Flight" (1931), "Fanny Foley Herself" (1931), "A House Divided" (1931), "Vanity Street" (1932), "Christopher Strong" (1933), "Alimony Madness" (1933), "Dance Hall Hostess" (1933), "Goodbye Again" (1933), "The Worst Woman In Paris?" (1933), "Long Lost Father" (1934), "Midnight Alibi" (1934), "Unfinished Symphony" (1934), "Radio Parade Of 1935), and "It's A Bet" (1935). Her last film role was playing 'Oleander Tubbs' in the musical romance film comedy, "Mr. Boggs Steps Out" (1938). The film which was directed by Gordon Wiles, which was written for the screen by Clarence Budington Kelland and Richard English, and which also starred Stuart Erwin, Toby Wing, Tully Marshall, Spencer Charters, Otto Hoffman, and Milburn Stone, tells the story of Oliver Boggs, a typical office drone, with no success in sight, who can spout statistics about anything and everything, who wins $1500 in a bean-guessing contest at the movie theatre, quits his job and sets forth to the seedy, down-at-the-heels town of Peckham Falls. There he buys a barrel factory and falls in love with Irene Lee, the snobbish niece of crusty old Morton Ross, the town's only rich man and owner of the closed canneries. Oleander Tubbs and her inventor father Angus Tubbs, who sold Oliver Boggs the factory, tell him it has no future but he disagrees and says he will have everything booming again. Oleander Tubbs thinks he is daffy but she and her father agree to help him. Angus Tubbs invents a collapsible barrel and Oliver Boggs, seeing fame and fortune just ahead, spends all of his money just keeping the factory going. Oliver Boggs persuades old man Morton Ross to re-open the canneries and to use the ground-breaking barrels and things appear to be going okay, until Dennis Andrews, Morton Ross' slick attorney, tries to double-cross both Morton Ross and Oliver Boggs by bilking Angus Tubbs out of the patent rights to the barrel. She left films and Hollywood, California, shortly thereafter to return to her love of the stage, but a dependency on alcohol and sleeping pills haunted her subsequent career, and she was committed to a sanitarium in 1940. She was sadly disfigured in a fire ten years later caused by her smoking in bed. She passed away from cardiac and renal failure following surgery for a bleeding ulcer at a hospital in Hollywood, California, on April 30, 1965, at the age of 59. Following her death, she was cremated and per her wishes, her ashes were placed in vaultage at the Chapel of the Pines in Los Angeles, California. On an interesting note, her cremated remains sat in vaultage at the Chapel of the Pines in Los Angeles, California, after no relatives or friends came forward to collect her cremated remains for over fifty-eight years. In 2023, Arthur Dark, a YouTuber and channel creator of the popular Hollywood Graveyard started an online GoFundMe fundraising effort to have her cremated remains brought out of vaultage for inurnment in the Cathedral Mausoleum at the famous Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California. The fundraiser was a success and her cremated remains were inurned in a beautiful see-through fronted glass niche in the Cathedral Mausoleum on July 13, 2023. She now rests beside the actor Edmund Gwenn (1877-1959), who is best remembered for playing the role of 'Kris Kringle' in the holiday classic film, "A Miracle On 34th Street" (1947), and who was also found recently in vaultage at Chapel of the Pines in Los Angeles, California, and moved to Hollywood Forever in Hollywood, California, on December 3, 2023. She was married three times, first to screenwriter Cyril Hume (1900-1966), from February 3, 1930, until they divorced in 1934, second to actor Bramwell Fletcher (1904-1988), from February 14, 1935, until they divorced in April of 1941, and third to Walter Stanley Piascik (1914-1990), in 1943.