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4 unusual facts about Helmut Dantine


Helmut Dantine

Dantine's second marriage was to Nicola Schenck, daughter of Nicholas Schenck, one of the founders of Loews; she became an actress known as Niki Dantine; the couple had two children.

He began his U.S. acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse, where he was spotted by a talent scout and signed to a Warner Bros. contract.

From 1947–50, he was married to Charlene Stafford Wrightsman (1927–1963), the younger daughter of Charles B. Wrightsman, an oil millionaire whose collection of French furniture and decorative arts fills several galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Stranger from Venus

Stranger from Venus (also known as Immediate Disaster and The Venusian) is a 1954 science fiction film directed by Burt Balaban and starring Patricia Neal and Helmut Dantine.



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