Helen Holmes: Helen Holmes. Actress: The Railroad Raiders. Though the circumstances of Helen Holmes' birth are somewhat hazy (sources place it in either Chicago or Louisville, KY, in mid-June or early July of 1893), what isn't hazy is that she was, with Pearl White, the queen of the railroad serials of the mid-teens and early '20s. Holmes always played a strong-willed, independent and resourceful heroine, just as capable of running after, jumping...
Known For: The Railroad Raiders (Helen Holmes), Crossed Signals (Helen Wainwright), Mistaken Orders (Helen Barton), The Lost Express (Helen Thurston)