Westley, Helen
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Westley, Helen (1879–1942), character actress. The Brooklyn native made her debut in 1897 and acted in stock for many years before becoming a founder first of the
Washington Square Players and then of the
Theatre Guild. She never became a star but continued throughout her career to play important featured roles, among them Mrs. Clegg in
Jane Clegg (1920), Mrs. Muskat in
Liliom (1921), Mrs. Zero in
The Adding Machine (1923), Ftatateeta in
Caesar and Cleopatra (1925), Mrs. Evans in
Strange Interlude (1928), Aunt Eller in
Green Grow the Lilacs (1931), Frau Lucher in
Reunion in Vienna (1931), Mrs. Wells in
They Shall Not Die (1934), and Grandma in
The Primrose Path (1939). Theresa
Helburn praised her sure instinct in helping the Guild select plays, and noted, “She had a theatrical appearance and manner, and dressed rather like a femme fatale—coal‐black hair and black, slinky dresses, a little like Charles Addams's young witch.”
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