Helen Hurst
Helen gave up a very promising career (in medicine) to take to the stage. She left Medical School to study at the Royal Acadamy of Dramatic Art (R.A.D.A.) and, after winning a scholarship there, spent three years in repertory.
At one time she had the distinction of understudying two leading ladies – one (Eva
Lister) at Her Majesty’s Theatre in “Belinda Fair,” and the other at the London Casino – bobbing up like a jack-in-the-box at both rehearsals on the same day. The strenuous and valuable training brought her leading parts, opposite Fred Emney, in “Blue for a Boy,” Sonnie Hale in “Lady Be Good”.
In the 1950s she played Principal Boy for five seasons in pantomime and moved from summer season in 1956 at Llandudno to join the London Players at Crewe in 1957.
Past productions
- Mrs Botting, Half a Sixpence
- Mrs Pomerantz, Fiorello, (In association with the Arts Council of Great Britain), Bristol Old Vic Company, and Old Vic Trust Ltd
- Mrs Merkle, Bye Bye Birdie
- Mrs Higgins, Pygmalion, Carl Clopet Productions and Harold French Ltd
- Suspect, New Malvern Company
- The Belle of New York
- Mrs Charles Pentwick, Love’s a Luxury, New Malvern Company
- Martha Stuart, One More for Dinner, Crewe Repertory Company
- Mrs Farraday, A Nest of Singing Birds, The London Players
- Mrs Eynsford-Hill, Pygmalion
- Josephine Vanderwater, Lady Be Good
- Emile Littler's Deauville Lovelies, Blue For a Boy
- Emile Littler's Deauville Lovelies, Blue For a Boy
