Helen Chandler

Acting

Helen Chandler

Born 1906-02-01 · Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Helen Chandler was an American stage and screen actress. She is today best remembered for her portrayal of Mina in the 1931 classic horror film Dracula.

Acting credits

Dracula poster
7.2

A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves the agent and drives him to insanity, the pair return to London together, where Dracula, a secret bloodsucker, begins preying on socialites.

Dracula

1931

Salvation Nell poster
7.0

Young Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries to redeem him when he comes out....

Salvation Nell

1931

Daybreak poster
4.3

An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.

Daybreak

1931

The Many Faces of Dracula poster
3.5

Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula over the years.

The Many Faces of Dracula

2000

Salute poster
5.8

A comedy-romance about rival brothers attending a military academy.

Salute

1929

Christopher Strong poster
5.9

A romance develops between a happily married middle-aged British politician and an adventurous young aviatrix.

Christopher Strong

1933

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook poster
9.5

A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

1991

The Last Flight poster
6.5

Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. The four friends, haunted by the devastation of the war, head to Paris instead of home, where they meet Nikki, an eccentric and wealthy young woman. Nikki is drawn to Cary, and the five friends, tagged by the boorish reporter, Frink, drink their way from Paris to Lisbon.

The Last Flight

1931

Goodbye Again poster
4.9

Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?

Goodbye Again

1933

Outward Bound poster
6.0

A group of strangers find themselves aboard an unmanned ship, surrounded by fog and uncertain of their destination. As they attempt to make sense of their situation, the group of passengers discover a commonality that changes their perception of the nature of their journey. The film was later remade, with some changes, as Between Two Worlds (1944).

Outward Bound

1930

A House Divided poster
5.6

A New England fisherman's second wife prefers his son.

A House Divided

1931

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman poster
9.0

Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan - Forrest J. Ackerman, whose 85 year love affair with the genre helped bring it into the mainstream and shape the way we view science fiction today.

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

2007

Mother's Boy poster
7.0

Young Irish lad Tommy O'Day lives in a poor section of New York's Lower East Side, and is blessed with a beautiful singing voice. After an argument with his father, who accuses him of stealing the family's life savings, Tommy leaves home and gets a job singing in a cabaret. He is successful and soon lands the lead in a Broadway revue. On opening night, just as he is about to go on stage, he receives word that his mother, who he has not seen since he left home, is dying and wants to see him.

Mother's Boy

1929

Vanity Street poster
7.1

A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".

Vanity Street

1932

The Joy Girl poster
7.5

Though she loves one man, an ambitious Palm Beach girl marries another, whom she thinks is rich. He turns out to be a fraud who thought she was an heiress. She returns to a successful hat shop she maintains catering to socialites. Her true love turns out to be in fact, a rich man who let her think he was not to test her.

The Joy Girl

1927

Mothers Cry poster
5.7

Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life of crime and now returns to inflict his insane behavior on the family household.

Mothers Cry

1930

Unfinished Symphony poster
7.0

Composer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in front of a princess of the royal family. Schubert performs a version of his new work, "Symphony in B Minor", for the princess, but a misunderstanding results in Schubert storming out of the concert in a rage. Complications ensue. English-language version of "Leise flehen meine Lieder."

Unfinished Symphony

1934

Dracula poster
5.5

8-minute shortened version of Tod Browning's 1931 classic "Dracula."

Dracula

1963

The Road to 'Dracula' poster
7.5

A documentary from Universal about the movie "Dracula" (1931) starring Bela Lugosi.

The Road to 'Dracula'

1999

Long Lost Father poster
5.9

A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.

Long Lost Father

1934

Rough Romance poster
5.8

Love and logging in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon.

Rough Romance

1930

Midnight Alibi poster
6.7

An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.

Midnight Alibi

1934

Mr. Boggs Steps Out poster
5.3

A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do something novel with the prize and ends up buying a barrel factory. He encounters trouble when the nearby pickle factory is threatened by a shyster attempting to close it.

Mr. Boggs Steps Out

1938

It's a Bet poster
7.0

A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.

It's a Bet

1935