Helen Wright

Biography

November 1868 found Helen Wright drawing her first breath amid the river-blurred chill of St. Paul, Minnesota. By the time silent film began to flicker, she had already learned to let emotion speak without words, commanding the screen in three era-defining pictures: the prairie mystery A Stranger from Somewhere (1916), Ibsen’s fiercely re-imagined A Doll’s House (1917), and the high-speed thriller The Brass Bullet (1918). California sunshine warmed her final afternoon on 24 March 1928, closing the curtain on a life lived between gaslight and klieg light.