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Helen Broderick (August 11, 1891 – September 25, 1959) was an American film and stage actress known for her comic roles, especially as a wisecracking sidekick. She began on Broadway as a chorus girl in the Follies of 1907, the first of Florenz Ziegfeld's annual revues. By the late 1920s, she was playing leads and featured roles, most notably in Fifty Million Frenchmen. In the early 1930s, she starred in the revues The Band Wagon and As Thousands Cheer. Her film roles included the Astaire-Rogers movies Top Hat and Swing Time. The wife of actor Lester Crawford, she was the mother of Academy Award-winning actor Broderick Crawford.

External links

• Helen Broderick at the Internet Movie Database
• Helen Broderick at the Internet Broadway Database
• Helen Broderick at Find a Grave