Spoiler : Brenda Cummings on the NBC and CBS Radio Network soap, Second Husband (1937-1944). Some sources credit Menken as the creator/producer of Stage Door Canteen on CBS-Radio (1942-1945). It is known that she helped found the Stage Door Canteen in Hollywood during WWII. She also was chairman and president of The American Theatre Wing.

Spoiler : Menken, Helen (Helen Meinken) Born in New York City 12/12/1901; died 3/27/1966 of a heart attack while attending a party at The Lamb's Club in New York City. Married and divorced actor Humphery Bogart (1926-1927); Doctor Henry T. Smith (?-?); George N. Richard (1948-?). Menken's parents were deaf-mutes and Menken instructed the deaf for years. In the 1940's an operation left her with partial face paralysis, and she couldn't speak for two years. Menken founded the Society For The Rehabilitation Of The Facially Disfigured in 1950. Stage actress/producer. Debut on Broadway with Midsummer Night's Dream in 1906. On screen in Stage Door Canteen (1943).