Famous People with Name Helen

Helen Berry Andelin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen Berry Andelin: is the founder of the Fascinating Womanhood Movement.Helen Berry Andelin authored the book Fascinating Womanhood in 1963 to correspond with marriage enrichment classes that she taught in Central California. Mrs. Andelin sold 400,000 copies from her garage through a publishing firm she and her husband founded, Pacific Press. She based the classes and her book on a set of pamphlets that were published in the 1920s and 1930s, "The Secrets of Fascinating Womanhood." The classes started with an enrollment of eight women and grew to the point that many hundreds of women taught Fascinating Womanhood classes.

Helen Levitt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen Levitt: is an American documentary photographer.Levitt grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Dropping out of school, she taught herself photography while working for a commercial photographer. While teaching some classes in art to children in 1937, Levitt became intrigued with the transitory chalk drawings that were part of the New York children's street culture of the time. She purchased a Leica camera and began to photograph these works as well as the children who made them. The resulting photographs appeared, to great acclaim, in 1987 as In The Street: chalk drawings and messages, New York City 1938–1948. Named as one of the "100 best photo-books", first-editions are now highly collectable.[citation needed]

Helen Donath            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen Donath: is an American soprano.She debuted as a concert and Lieder singer in New York. In 1961, she became a member of the Opernstudio in K

Helen Rachel Slater            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen Rachel Slater: an American film actress and singer-songwriter.She made her acting debut in the ABC Afterschool Special Amy and the Angel, transmitted in 1982, alongside James Earl Jones, Meg Ryan, and Matthew Modine. This was also the only film she appeared in as a brunette. In 1984, she was cast as the title character, versus Faye Dunaway as Selena, in the film Supergirl, released in 1984

Helen Shaver            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen Shaver: a Canadian actress and film and television director.Shaver has worked with such directors as Sam Peckinpah, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Brian De Palma. In 1978, she won a Canadian Film Award for her role as "Ann MacDonald" in the film In Praise of Older Women.