Helen Logan

Helen Logan Reel (December 13, 1906 – January 15, 1989) was an American screenwriter active in Hollywood from 1935 to 1950. She wrote screenplays with her partner (later husband) Robert Ellis.

Early life and education Helen Logan was born in Los Angeles, California, to William Edson Logan and Ida Jane Busick Logan. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1927, and she was a charter member of the university's chapter of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority in 1925.

Career Logan began working at Fox as a script reader Eventually she wrote her own screenplays for Fox, working on two popular franchises, Charlie Chan and the Jones Family. She also co-wrote the screenplay for a Shirley Temple movie, Susannah of the Mounties (1939). Later she worked on wartime musical films, including Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943) with Alice Faye. Ellis died in 1974, and she died in 1989, in Los Angeles, at the age of 82. Writing Chan, a video documentary about the Logan/Ellis writing team was produced in 2008, and included as extra content on a DVD box set of the Charlie Chan films.

Selected filmography Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935) Ladies Love Danger (1935) The Lady in Scarlet (1935) ¡Asegure a su Mujer! (Secure Your Wife) (1935) Back to Nature (1936) Red Lights Ahead (1936) Footlights and Shadows (1936) Laughing at Trouble (1936) Too Busy to Work (1939) Charlie Chan in City in Darkness (1939) Susannah of the Mounties (1939) The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940) Star Dust (1940) The Great American Broadcast (1941) Iceland (1942) Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943) Pin Up Girl (1944) Something for the Boys (1944) Four Jills in a Jeep (1944) Greenwich Village (1944) Do You Love Me? (1946) I'll Get By (1950, story)