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Helen Gardner
Picture Players
 
Type of Company Production company
Country of Origination United States of America
Years of Operation Formed 1912
Active 1912 through circa 1913
Company Principals Charles L. Gaskill, director-manager (circa 1914)
Company Offices unknown
Company Studios Tappan-on-the-Hudson, New York, USA

Helen Gardner Picture Players was formed to produce films starring Helen Gardner. J. Stuart Blackton and/or The Vitagraph Company of America may have had some interest in the company, which was possibly also known as The Helgar Corporation.

References: Robinson-Palace p. 145.

 

[The Motion Picture News, 4 April 1914, page 36] The Helen Gardner Picture Players announce that they will release, some time this Fall, several features of six reels length. Charles L. Gaskill, director-manager, is the first producer of a photoplay of that length in this country. “Cleopatra,” with Miss Gardner in the name part, was the title.

 
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