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Golden Age actress Helen Twelvetrees died in 1958 at the age of 49 from a sedative overdose, which coroners ruled as suicide. She emerged as a prominent dramatic actress in the 1930s, often portraying women whose lives were filled with turmoil and despair. Her personal life mirrored the characters she played. A co-star in a 1951 stage production of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, in which Twelvetrees starred as Blanche DuBois, noted that she had ‘the saddest eyes I'd ever seen ... it was also obvious that she had an extremely fragile psyche’. However, in this photograph, she embodies a decidedly more cheerful character as Maryan Garner in the 1930 musical ‘Swing High’ alongside co-star Fred Scott.
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