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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 229231" data-attributes="member: 7">Helen Twelvetrees (1908─1958) was from an influential family in Brooklyn. Her professional surname was acquired from her first husband, Clark Twelvetrees, who she married when she was nineteen (they were married from 1927 to 1931). She was briefly signed with Fox Film Corporation in the late 1920s, where she made just three films before being released. She soon found employment at Pathé, which was soon absorbed by RKO. During her earlier days at RKO, she occupied her time in the shadow of Constance Bennett and Ann Harding, starring in mostly lackluster women-aimed melodramas, like the 1931 film A Woman of Experience. Twelvetrees was often miscast in her films, and she eventually tired of RKO mis-managing her career. Once Katharine Hepburn was signed to RKO in 1932, she decided to leave the studio and began a freelance career. Her freelance career was also not too successful, and she soon retired from show business in 1939. She committed suicide in 1958 with an overdose of prescription sedatives.&nbsp; 
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[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 229231, member: 7"] [FONT=Verdana][B]Helen Twelvetrees [/B](1908─1958) was from an influential family in Brooklyn. Her professional surname was acquired from her first husband, Clark Twelvetrees, who she married when she was nineteen (they were married from 1927 to 1931). She was briefly signed with Fox Film Corporation in the late 1920s, where she made just three films before being released. She soon found employment at Pathé, which was soon absorbed by RKO. During her earlier days at RKO, she occupied her time in the shadow of Constance Bennett and Ann Harding, starring in mostly lackluster women-aimed melodramas, like the 1931 film [I]A Woman of Experience[/I]. Twelvetrees was often miscast in her films, and she eventually tired of RKO mis-managing her career. Once Katharine Hepburn was signed to RKO in 1932, she decided to leave the studio and began a freelance career. Her freelance career was also not too successful, and she soon retired from show business in 1939. She committed suicide in 1958 with an overdose of prescription sedatives. [B] [/B][/FONT] [CENTER] [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Helen_Twelvetrees_arrives_from_Hollywood_to_make_the_film_The_Thoroughbred_in_Sydney%2C_2_December_1935_-_silver_gelatin_photoprint_by_Harry_Freeman_%287785505968%29.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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