Princess Helena — The King Steps Out Character Profile

About Princess Helena

Older sister of Princess Elizabeth, originally engaged to Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in Bavaria before the courtship dynamics shift to her younger sister.

Character Facts

Played by

Frieda Inescort

Appears in

The King Steps Out (1936)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (4)

• Princess Helena — Family Sisters — Princess Elizabeth / Cissy (Grace Moore)

  Sisters from Bavarian royal family

• Princess Helena — Romantic Former Fiancee — Emperor Franz Josef (Franchot Tone)

  Initially engaged before falling for Cissy

• Princess Helena — Romantic Former Fiancee — Emperor Franz Josef (Franchot Tone)

  Initially engaged to Franz Josef before he chose her sister

• Princess Helena — Family Father Daughter — Maximilian, Duke of Bavaria (Walter Connolly)

  Father and daughter relationship

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• Herlicka (George Hassell)
• Grand Duchess Sofia (Elisabeth Risdon)
• Mermaid (Josephine McKim)
• Chief of the Secret Police (Johnny Arthur)
• Specialty Ballerina (uncredited) (Gwen Verdon)
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