- Her role as Louisa Cody in Paramount Pictures' Une aventure de Buffalo Bill (1936) was played eight years later by Maureen O'Hara in yet another biography of Buffalo Bill Cody, this time at Twentieth Century-Fox, entitled Buffalo Bill (1944) starring Joel McCrea.
- Her sister Stella Mary Burgess had a small role in Les naufrageurs des mers du sud (1942).
- Her 1937 marriage to piano player Herbert Rutherford lasted only a week because he refused to live with her. Helen filed for an annulment and told the court he had only married her to spite another woman.
- She was discovered by producer Cecil B. Demille at the age of nineteen. He cast her in the film The Plainsman and said "she was the the finest natural actress I have ever seen".
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