Helene Costello

She would continue acting in films throughout the 1910s as a child actor and reach her peak of public popularity in the 1920s, although never quite rivalling the success of her sister Dolores.

Although she had been appearing on screen since her early childhood, in 1927 Helene Costello was selected as a WAMPAS Baby Star, a promotional campaign sponsored by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers in the United States, which honored thirteen young women each year who they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom.

Costello appeared alongside such popular film actors of the silent era as Myrna Loy, Louise Fazenda, Marie Prevost, Tom Mix, and even Rin Tin Tin. She would also occasionally appear with her sister Dolores in films such as the Warner Bros. all-star Technicolor release The Show of Shows (1929).

Helene Costello's career declined with the advent of sound films and she began to appear less and less on screen. She did manage to stay in the headlines briefly in the 1930s however, when she and her sister were sued by their famous actor father for financial support. Read Less