Helen Eby-Rock Explained

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Helen Eby-Rock (July 18, 1896 – July 20, 1979) was an American actress and stage performer.

Helen Eby was born on July 18, 1896 in Pennsylvania.^[1] She initially worked as a public school teacher in Altoona, Pennsylvania.^[2]

She performed in the musical revue Hitchy-Koo.with the vaudeville team of William Rock and Frances White. Rock and White split in 1919, and Eby and Rock teamed up and married. After Rock's death, Eby-Rock briefly teamed up with Jack Haley in 1925 as his straight woman.^[3] She appeared on stage in Dancing Mothers (1924),^[4] Delmar's Revels (1927),^[5] and That's the Woman (1930).^[6]

She became a character actor, starring in small roles in numerous feature films, starting with her role as dope addict Kitty Cognac in Ann Vickers (1933).^{[7] [8]} She also appeared in small roles in television comedies, like The Colgate Comedy Hour,^[9] The Charlie Farrell Show,^[10] and The Jack Benny Program.^[11]

Helen Eby-Rock died on 20 July 1979 in Woodland Hills, California.

Filmography

• The Salesman (1929)^[12]
• Opening Night (1931)
• The Spirits of 76th Street (1931)
• Ann Vickers (1933)^[13]
• The Crime of Helen Stanley (1934)
• The Life of Vergie Winters (1934)
• The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)^[14]
• My Reputation (1946)
• Undercurrent (1946)
• High Wall (1947)^[15]
• Force of Evil (1948)
• The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
• Side Street (1949)
• Born Yesterday (1950)^{[16] [17]}
• Caged (1950)
• A Life of Her Own (1950)^[18]
• Callaway Went Thataway (1951)
• The Man with a Cloak (1951)
• Pat and Mike (1952)
• Singin' in the Rain (1952)^[19]
• A Star is Born (1954)
• Over-Exposed (1956)

Notes and References

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2. https://www.newspapers.com/image/57135823/ Altoona Tribune
3. Book: Slide, Anthony . The vaudevillians : a dictionary of vaudeville performers . 1981 . Westport, Conn. : Arlington House . Internet Archive . 978-0-87000-492-6.
4. Book: The Best plays and the year book of the drama in America . 1909 . New York, Dodd, Mead . Oliver Wendell Holmes Library Phillips Academy.
5. Book: The Best plays and the year book of the drama in America . 1909 . New York, Dodd, Mead . Oliver Wendell Holmes Library Phillips Academy.
6. Book: Mantle, Burns . The Best plays of 1930-1931 ; and the year book of the drama in America . 1931 . New York : Dodd, Mead . Internet Archive.
7. Book: Ragan, David . Who's who in Hollywood, 1900-1976 . 1976 . New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House . Internet Archive . 978-0-87000-349-3.
8. Book: Parish, James Robert . Prison pictures from Hollywood : plots, critiques, casts and credits for 293 theatrical and made for television releases . 2000 . Jefferson, N.C. ; London : McFarland . Internet Archive . 978-0-7864-0939-6.
9. Book: National Broadcasting Company. . [N.B.C trade releases]. ]. 1954 . [New York, N.Y. : National Broadcasting Company] . College Park University of Maryland.
10. Book: Ross, Wallace A. . Ross reports on television. . 1956 . New York, N. Y. : Wallace A. Ross . College Park University of Maryland.
11. Book: Sam Frank . Buyer's guide to fifty years of TV on video . 1999 . Prometheus Books . Internet Archive . 978-1-57392-226-5.
12. Book: Bradley, Edwin M. . The first Hollywood sound shorts, 1926-1931 . 2005 . Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland . Internet Archive . 978-0-7864-1030-9.
13. Book: The American Film Institute catalog of motion pictures produced in the United States : feature films 1931-1940 . 1993 . Berkley, CA ; London : University of California Press . Internet Archive . 978-0-520-07908-3.
14. Book: Fetrow, Alan G. . Feature films, 1940-1949 : a United States filmography . 1994 . Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland . Internet Archive . 978-0-89950-914-3.
15. Book: Silver, Alain . Film noir : an encyclopedic reference to the American style . Ward . Elizabeth . Macek . Carl . Porfirio . Robert . Ursini . James . 1992 . Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press . Internet Archive . 978-0-87951-479-2.
16. Book: Fetrow, Alan G. . Feature films, 1950-1959 : a United States filmography . 1999 . Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland . Internet Archive . 978-0-7864-0427-8.
17. Book: Zinman, David (David H.) . 50 from the 50s : vintage films from America's mid-century . 1979 . New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House . Internet Archive . 978-0-87000-318-9.
18. Book: Clarens, Carlos . George Cukor . 1976 . London : Secker and Warburg [for] the British Film Institute . Internet Archive . 978-0-436-09942-7.
19. Book: Hess, Earl J. . Singin' in the rain : the making of an American masterpiece . Dabholkar . Pratibha A. . 2009 . Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas . Internet Archive . 978-0-7006-1656-5.