Sister of actress Dolores Costello, and a minor actress in her own right. See Internet Movie Database for more info. on her. Dolores Costello (September 17, 1903 – March 1, 1979) was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies. ...
HeleneCostello's career declined with the advent of sound films and she began to appear less and less onscreen.
HeleneCostello died of pneumonia and tuberculosis in Los Angeles, California in 1957 at the age of 50 and was interred at the Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles.
HeleneCostello is the great-aunt of contemporary actress Drew Barrymore - her sister Dolores being Barrymore's paternal grandmother from her marriage to actor John Barrymore.
Helene's adult career followed many of the same paths previously trodden by her sister Dolores: modelling work in New York, dancing in George White's Scandals, and leading-lady assignments in several popular films of the 1920s.
Helene co-starred in the first all-talking feature film, Lights of New York (1928); ironically, she proved to be an inadequate talkie actress, and her star quickly waned.
For a brief period in the early 1930s, Helene was the wife of actor/director Lowell Sherman, and the sister-in-law of John Barrymore.
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