Famous People with Name Helen

Helen Wagner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen Wagner: is an American actress. She was born in Lubbock, Texas.Wagner has played matriarch Nancy Hughes McClosky on the soap opera As The World Turns (with only a few interruptions), since the show's debut in April 1956. She is believed to be the actor/actress with the longest tenure in a single television role in the U.S. Wagner spoke the first lines of the program: "Good morning, dear."

Helen O'Connell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen O'Connell: was a singer, actress, and dancer.Helen O'Connell joined the Jimmy Dorsey band in 1939 and achieved her best selling records in the early forties with "Green Eyes", "Amapola," "Yours," and "Tangerine." In each of these Latin-influenced numbers, Bob Eberly crooned the song which Helen then reprised in an up-tempo arrangement. Helen won the 1940 Metronome magazine poll for best female vocalist and was selected by Down Beat readers as best female singer in 1940 and 1941. She was one of the first "girls" on NBC's The Today Show, and at one point had her own television show.

Helen Herring Stephens            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen Herring Stephens: was an American athlete, a double Olympic champion in 1936.Stephens, nicknamed the 'Fulton Flash' after her birthplace Fulton, Missouri, was a strong athlete in sprint events - she never lost a race in her entire career - but also in weight events like the shot put and discus throw, and she won national titles in both categories of events.

Helen Berry Andelin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen Berry Andelin: is the founder of the Fascinating Womanhood Movement.Helen Berry Andelin authored the book Fascinating Womanhood in 1963 to correspond with marriage enrichment classes that she taught in Central California. Mrs. Andelin sold 400,000 copies from her garage through a publishing firm she and her husband founded, Pacific Press. She based the classes and her book on a set of pamphlets that were published in the 1920s and 1930s, "The Secrets of Fascinating Womanhood." The classes started with an enrollment of eight women and grew to the point that many hundreds of women taught Fascinating Womanhood classes.

Helen Levitt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen Levitt: is an American documentary photographer.Levitt grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Dropping out of school, she taught herself photography while working for a commercial photographer. While teaching some classes in art to children in 1937, Levitt became intrigued with the transitory chalk drawings that were part of the New York children's street culture of the time. She purchased a Leica camera and began to photograph these works as well as the children who made them. The resulting photographs appeared, to great acclaim, in 1987 as In The Street: chalk drawings and messages, New York City 1938–1948. Named as one of the "100 best photo-books", first-editions are now highly collectable.[citation needed]