Career Highlights: I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Chip off the Old Block, The Wedding Night
First Major Screen Credit: I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
Biography
The daughter of a Texas oil executive, trim blonde actress Helen Vinson had a respectable Broadway career behind her when she made her first film, Jewel Robbery, in 1932. Seldom a leading lady, Vinson carved her cinematic niche in bewitching other-woman roles. She had the gift of conveying truculence and connivance by merely batting an eyelash or murmuring a sweet nothing. From 1935 to 1936, Vinson made films in London, the home of her then-husband, tennis star Fred Perry. Helen Vinson retired from films after her supporting role in The Thin Man Goes Home (1945). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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