Biography Helen Kane

Helen Kane Helen Shroeder, August 4, 1904, born in New York, German father and Irish mother and since she was just fifteen years, Helen, a natural talent, was already on stage and the Orpheum Circuit with the Marx Brothers Touring.

In 1920 Helen married her first husband, the shop manager, Joseph Kane, and began to use the name of Kane professional. He spent the early 1920s, his career as a singer and dancer with the line of football All JazzRevue.

In 1921 she played the New York Palace for the first time, instead of Helen's big breakthrough came in 1927 when he appeared in a musical entitled A Night in Spain. The musical was actually a flop, but the band conductor Paul Ash, recommended for a performance at the Paramount Theater in New York, Times Square.

While on stage at the Paramount Helen sang the song that is my weakness Add Now, and chose the texts Boop-boop-a-Doop. This flash of inspiration paid for them,Four days later, his name in lights and she was a star.

In 1928 Helen was singing the song I want from you for the first time in Good Boy Oscar Hammerstein show and loved the song to be not only a hit with the audience was a great success for Helen, and most recently in 2003 was included, the soundtrack to the film by Rob Zombie House of 1000 Corpses.

Helen's career peaked between 1928 and 1930 and has 22 songs in this period. Between 1930 and 1951,although only registered five, and one of them was a re-release of their hit I want to be loved by you. In these two years, when she was at its peak, however, was a popular girl. Helen Kane dolls were easily accessible shops for sale in Helen Kane look-alike contests have not been a not unusual thing. Helen appeared in nightclubs and radio stations. Was the question, and also made a series of musicals, the last of which was a lesson in love(1931)

Animator Grim Natwick in 1930 for Fleisher Studios was working, and is based on a comic book character Helen. This character would later become known as Betty Boop and even adopted the slogan Boop-Oop-A-Doop. Helen brought against Paramount Studios and Fleisher, but two years later, in 1934, the court decided against them. But strangely, Helen provided the voice of Betty Boop cartoon for 1933 Hollywood on Parade No. A, 8, and it is sad thatCareer cartoon copy-cat would far eclipse the original Boop-girl.

Helen was married three times. His first marriage to Joseph Kane lasted only eight years, split up in 1928 and in 1933 married her second husband, actor Max Hoffman Jr., but marriage only lasted until May 1935. Then, in 1939, Helen, artist Dan Healy married, opened a restaurant together and spent the rest of their lives.

Helen Kane died of cancer Sept. 26, 1966and was buried in National Cemetery Iceland Long, New York.