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- Helen Seamon was born in Dermott, Ark, and brought up in Pine Bluff. Her father was a ticket railroad agent. She made a theatrical debut of sorts in a movie house in Pine Bluff; During children's matinees Helen sat on the organ console and sang. She also studied dancing. Her parents scraped up some money and sent her to Los Angeles for further training with Ernest Belcher. One day she accompanied a friend to a studio and sat in the waiting room, while the friend talked to the casting director. Another executive raced into the waiting room, waved Helen into his office and said he had to have a girl in a dance number. He had telephoned Belcher and the teacher had told him that Miss Seamon was in the studio.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Richard
- SpouseThomas Evans Beal(July 10, 1964 - February 28, 1979) (his death)
- At the end of The Wizard of Oz (1939), as the Wizard is preparing to take Dorothy back to Kansas in his balloon, Helen Seamon (uncredited) plays the Emerald City woman holding the cat that causes Toto to bark & leap out of Dorothy's arms. Dorothy then runs after Toto, and the balloon leaves without her.
- She has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Wizard of Oz (1939) & Ball of Fire (1941).
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