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Helen Chandler Broadway Portrait. Here's a wistf Helen Chandler Broadway Portrait.

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Helen Chandler Broadway Portrait. Here's a wistf Helen Chandler Broadway Portrait.
<B>Helen Chandler Broadway Portrait.</B></I> Here's a wistful pose of Helen Chandler, New York stage actress of the 1920s and 1930s, best-remembered as the leading lady of Hollywood's <I>Dracula.</B></I> The 1925 8x12 portrait was for <I>First Flight,</B></I> a play by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings, who had enjoyed great success with their 1924 play <I>What Price Glory.</B></I> <I>First Flight</B></I> was not so successful, lasting only 12 performances. The portrait has a small piece missing from the upper right margin; the back has Chandler's name and the play's penciled on it, as well as the White Studio stamp. Helen Chandler always dreamed (in vain) of playing <I>Alice in Wonderland,</B></I> and you can see how charmingly she would have suited the role in this portrait from her glory nights of theatre fame.