Helen E. Connelly — The Screen Children’s Gallery (1914) 🇺🇸

Miss Helen E. Connelly [Helen Connelly], aged six, and sister of Robert [Bobby Connelly], is a most bewitching little lady with soft brown eyes and an air of artistic languor, which, I fear, is not her normal attitude, but one especially assumed for the benefit of the interviewer.

by W. Stephen Bush

I thought so at least until, in reply to my question concerning her preferences, the young lady declared that she liked “dying parts” better than any other. She liked people to be sorry for her she said and she just knew that she had everybody’s sympathy in a “dying part.” A glimpse of the eternal feminine. Miss Helen was quite willing to give an exhibition of her “dying powers” on the spot, but was gently restrained by her mother. Next to “dying parts,” the young lady likes “rich parts” best.

I learned, nevertheless, that Miss Connelly started her career as miniature motion picture artiste with the Pathé Company at the tender age of three. Her directors found her intelligent and pliable, and she quickly rose in favor. She played “quite a part” in the “Girl in the Film,” which is accounted one of her decided successes. She is versatile and can jump from one part to another without any apparent effort. She is, in the truest artistic sense of the word, as impressionable as wax. Other plays in which Miss Helen has acted with success were “The Feudist” and “The Ancient Order of Good Fellows.” The Vitagraph Company always has splendid opportunities for gifted children, and I hear that little Helen is scheduled for much interesting work in the near future.

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It has been said that all women are actresses.

Collection: Moving Picture World, March 1914