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MORE INFO ON HELENE WHITNEY: Helene Whitney also known as Helene Reynolds (July 4, 1914 – March 28, 1990) was an American actress who appeared in films in the late 1930s and 1940s.

Whitney was born Kenyon Fortescue in 1914, but was known as Helene. She was a granddaughter of Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, and grew up in Washington DC where she attended the National Cathedral School for Girls. She married Julian Louis Reynolds, an heir to the Reynolds aluminum and tobacco fortunes, on July 15, 1936 in Washington, becoming Helene Fortescue Reynolds. After three years of marriage, they divorced in May 1939. She became an actress, using the stage names of Joyce Gardner, Helene Whitney and Helene Reynolds, appeared in films in the late 1930s and 1940s and later in stage productions. After her acting career ended, she became a Manhattan art gallery proprietor and artist in the 1960s. She died of pneumonia at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Atlantis, FL on March 28, 1990.