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Helen Walker (July 17, 1920 – March 10, 1968) was an American film actress of the 1940s and 1950s.〔Obituary ''Variety'', March 13, 1968, page 79.〕 ==Career== She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and made her film debut in 1942. She earned a solid reputation playing leading roles in comedies - a "reactress" to comic leads, as she described it.〔Helen Walker Clings to Ideals: Recruit From Stage Confidently Waits for 'Grown-up' Parts Stage Recruit Holds Fast to Her Ideals Helen Walker Sure She'll Be Assigned 'Grown-up' Parts Scheuer, Philip K. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) (Angeles, Calif ) 04 Nov 1945: B1.〕 Walker's film debut came in 1942's ''Lucky Jordan'', a comedy about a gangster (Alan Ladd) who ends up drafted in the Army, where Walker's character reports him AWOL. In the farce ''Brewster's Millions'', her sweetheart inherits $8 million, but can't keep it unless he can spend a million of it within a specified time. Walker also played the romantic interest of Fred MacMurray in the popular comedy ''Murder, He Says'' in 1945. After a promising start in Hollywood, Walker was involved in a 1946 car wreck. A hitchhiker was killed, and Helen and two others were seriously injured. She was charged with drunk and reckless driving. She was subsequently acquitted and made a comeback, but her career never fully recovered. Her final big-screen appearance was in Philip Yordan's film noir The Big Combo in 1955. She retired from acting at the age of 35 and died in North Hollywood, California from cancer at the age of 47. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Helen Walker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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