Helen Jesmer was a beautiful showgirl whose career was ruined after a car accident
She was born Helene Louise Jesmer on March 9, 1899 in Princeton, Minnesota. When she was a teenager she moved to New York City and started dancing professionally. In 1918 she landed a small role in the film Bound For Morocco starring Douglas Fairbanks. The following year she appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies. The beautiful brunette also posed nude for Alfred Cheney Johnston. Helen joined the Greenwich Village Follies in 1920. On November 1, 1920 she was seriously injured in a car accident. She was thrown thru the windshield, fractured her skull, and broke her jar. The car she was in was being driven by her boyfriend Philip Morgan Plant, the son of a millionaire. Soon after the accident he dumped her for Constance Bennett.