Helen Gilmore

Helen Gilmore born Antoinette A Field c 1872 April 1936 was an American actress of the stage and silent motion pictures from Louisville Kentucky She appeared in over 140 films between 1913 and 1932 In approximately 1872 Gilmore was born to Richard Field and Mary Cilia Daniels In 1894 she toured with comic actor Stuart Robsons company even substituting on at least one occasion for Mrs Robsonthe temporarily unavailable May Waldronin the role of Adriana in Shakespeares A Comedy of Errors It was during that tour that Gilmore met and married fellow cast member and fellow Kentuckian Joseph B Zahner hurriedly tying the knot at New Yorks City Hall on Friday July 13 Scarcely five years later Zahner then 33 suffered a fatal heart attack Between 1910 and 1913 Gilmore appeared on Broadway in 4 musical revues Deems Taylors The Echo Manuel Kleins Around the World and Under Many Flags both at the New York Hippodrome and Oscar Strauss My Little Friend Shortly thereafter she made her screen debut in A Female Fagin As Mrs Hobbs in A Petticoat Pilot 1918 Gilmore was commended for her careful character study The Paramount Pictures film was directed by Rollin S Sturgeon and was based on the novel by Evelyn Lincoln She played the head nurse in Too Much Business 1922 This was a comedy which originated with a Saturday Evening Post story by Earl Derr Biggers In it Gilmore was cast with Elsa Lorimer and Mack Fenton Her final motion picture credit is for the role of a motorist in the Laurel and Hardy short Two Tars 1928