Helen Talbot

Born Helen Darling, she was adopted by the Smith family in 1937 and lived with them until 1941, when she left to live with her brother, Dan Darling's family, a milkman in West Los Angeles, and the Smiths moved to Rochester, New York. She attended Emerson Jr. High in Westwood Village, California and University High School in West Los Angeles, CA 1936-1941. Actress Faith Domergue (Kelli Garner portrayed her in The Aviator (2004)) was in the same class and lived across the street from them on S. Carmelina Avenue in Brentwood. Helen was under contract with Paramount in 1942 and 1943, then Republic, and was Don 'Red' Barry's leading lady in a few Westerns, then became Republic's Queen of the Serials.