Helen Leslie

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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.)

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]

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)
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  • The Gold Band (1916)
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  • If My Country Should Call (1916)
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  • Son o' the Stars (1916)
  • A Life at Stake (1915)
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  • The Toll of Youth (1915)
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  • Pawns of Fate (1915)
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References[]

  1. ^ Cooper, Mark Garrett (October 1, 2010). 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. October 27, 1914. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  4. ^ "At the Universal". The Los Angeles Times. October 18, 1914. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  5. ^ "Poor Little Helen". The Los Angeles Times. July 29, 1915. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  6. ^ "Blames Crime on Loneliness". The Los Angeles Times. January 9, 1922. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
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