Helen Ferguson — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸

Here is one film girl in Hollywood who can do just about anything, and that is Helen Ferguson. Helen is one of the most “regular girls” imaginable, and is popular with every man, woman and child in studio land.

Helen was born in Decatur, Ill., July 23, 1901. She was educated in the Nicholas Senn High School, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, then became a stenographer, but early tiring of this, she took up poster designing and writing. She finally landed on both feet in motion pictures and has progressed steadily up the ladder of fame, until today she is very close to stardom.

Her initial film work was in 1915 in “The Tempter,” [Temper (1915)] Henry B. Walthall’s first picture. Miss Ferguson then “ditched” examinations in school to go and work at the Essanay Studio. She received a place as extra in a mob scene, was loaded into a machine and, much to her dismay, the crowd was taken to her school for a scene, where she had to act before the camera, while her classmates and teacher looked on. Such is Fame, and Miss Ferguson got her face in the camera all right, registered, and in a short time was playing parts.

She was brought out from New York in 1919 by Goldwyn to play a leading feminine part in “Going Some,” after which followed a number of Goldwyn pictures, and then she played at other studios.

She is remembered for “Burning Daylight,” “The Mutiny of the Elsinore,” and other films, and will shortly be presented by Goldwyn in “Hungry Hearts,” in which she is said to have done the best work of her career, her part being one of the outstanding features.

Helen Ferguson drives a car, and is always reading, studying and painting. Thanksgiving she gave an address at a Congregational Church in Los Angeles, with much honor to herself and credit to the film industry.

Miss Ferguson is one of the featured players in “Brass,” which is being directed by Sidney Franklin with an all-star cast headed by Monte Blue, Marie Prevost, Harry Myers, Irene Rich, Frank Keenan and others.

Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)