- (1933 - 1943) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1933) Stage Play: Strange Orchestra. Comedy.
- (1935) Stage Play: To See Ourselves. Comedy.
- (1935) Stage Play: Victoria Regina. Historical drama. Written by Laurence Housman. Directed by Gilbert Miller. Broadhurst Theatre: 26 Dec 1935- Jun 1936 (closing date unknown/203 performances). Cast: Helen Hayes (as "Victoria"), Mary Austin (as "A Maidservant"), Alan Bandler (as "Royal Footman"), James Bedford (as "Mr. Oakley"), E. Bellenden-Clarke (as "Lord Conyngham"), Felix Brown (as "An Imperial Highness"), Edith Carew (as "Second Princess"), Lewis Casson (as "Lord Melbourne"), Willis Duncan (as "Ensemble"), Babette Feist (as "Duchess of Kent"), Mary Forbes (as "First Princess"), Albert Froom [credited as Albert Froome] (as "Mr. Richards, Albert's Valet"), Arthur Gould-Porter (as "First Queen's Gentleman"), Elise Grant (as "Third Princess"), Hitous Gray (as "Queen's Attendant"), Cherry Hardy (as "Duchess of Sutherland"), Mary Heberden (as "Lady Muriel"), Alfred Helton (as "A Footman"), Edward Jones (as "Third Queen's Gentleman"), A.C. Fotheringham-Lysons (as "Second Queen's Gentleman"), George Macready (as "Prince Ernest"), Renee Macredy (as "Lady Grace"), Ian Maple (as "Third Foreign Prince"), Oswald Marshall (as "Mr. Anson, Albert's Secretary"), Edward Martin (as "A Court Usher"), Herschel Martin (as "Sir Arthur Bigge"), Gilbert McKay (as "His Royal Highness"), Guy Moneypenny (as "Ensemble"), Elizabeth Munn (as "Third Princess"), Mary Newham-Davis (as "Lady-in-Waiting"), William Packer (as "Archbishop of Canterbury"), Harry Plimmer (as "Archbishop of Canterbury"), Shirley Poirier (as "Ensemble"), Vincent Price (as "Prince Albert"), Eugene Schiel (as "Queen's Grandson"), Jean Stephenson (as "Ensemble"), Helen Trenholme (as "Lady Jane"), Robert Von Rigel (as "A Footman"), James Woodburn (as "John Brown"), Tom Woods (as "General Grey, The Queen's Secretary"), George Zucco (as "Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield"). Produced by Gilbert Miller.
- (1936) Stage Play: Victoria Regina. Historical drama [return engagement]. Written by Laurence Housman. Incidental music arranged by Walter Leigh Directed by Gilbert Miller. Broadhurst Theatre: 31 Aug 1936- Jun 1937 (closing date unknown/314 performances). Cast: Helen Hayes (as "Victoria"), Mary Austin (as "A Maidservant"), Alan Bandler (as "Royal Footman"), James Bedford (as "Mr. Oakley"), E. Bellenden-Clarke (as "Lord Conyngham"), Felix Brown (as "An Imperial Highness"), Buddy Buehler (as "Ensemble"), Willis Duncan (as "Ensemble"), Babette Feist (as "Duchess of Kent"), Mary Forbes (as "First Princess"), Charles Francis (as "Lord Melbourne"), Albert Froom [credited as Albert Froome] (as "Mr. Richards, Albert's Valet"), Arthur Gould-Porter (as "First Queen's Gentleman Cherry Hardy (as "Duchess of Sutherland"), Mary Heberden (as "Lady Muriel"), Alfred Helton (as "A Footman"), Edward Jones (as "Third Queen's Gentleman"), Eva Leonard Boyne (as "Second Princess"), A.C. Fotheringham-Lysons (as "Second Queen's Gentleman"), George Macready (as "Prince Ernest"), Renee Macredy (as "Lady Grace") [final Broadway role], Oswald Marshall (as "Mr. Anson, Albert's Secretary"), Edward Martin (as "A Court Usher"), Herschel Martin (as "Sir Arthur Bigge"), Gilbert McKay (as "His Royal Highness"), Guy Moneypenny (as "Ensemble"), Elizabeth Munn (as "Third Princess"), Mary Newham-Davis (as "Lady-in-Waiting"), Harry Plimmer (as "Archbishop of Canterbury"), Shirley Poirier (as "Ensemble"), Vincent Price (as "Prince Albert"), Abraham Sofaer (as "Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield"), Jean Stephenson (as "Ensemble"), Helen Trenholme (as "Lady Jane"), Robert Von Rigel (as "A Footman"), James Woodburn (as "John Brown"), Tom Woods (as "General Grey, The Queen's Secretary"). Produced by Gilbert Miller.
- (1936) Stage Play: The Country Wife. Comedy. Written by William Wycherley [posthumous]. Directed by Gilbert Miller. Henry Miller's Theatre: 1 Dec 1936- Feb 1937 (closing date unknown/89 performances). Cast: Stephen Ker Appleby (as "Mr. Dorilant"), Edith Atwater (as "Mrs. Dainty Fidget, sister of Sir Jasper"), Violet Besson (as "Old Lady Squeamish"), Roger Blankenship (as "Ensemble"), Irene Browne (as "My Lady Fidget"), Flora Campbell (as Ensemble"), George Carr (as "A Quack"), Louis Dayton (as "Parson"), Salo Douday (as "Ensemble"), Catherine Emburie (as "Ensemble"), Ruth Gordon (as "Mrs. Margery Pinchwife"), George Graham (as "Sir Jasper Fidget"), David Gray (as "Ensemble"), Frances Greet (as "Ensemble"), Louis Hector (as "Mr. Sparkish"), Raymond Johnson (as "Boy"), William Justus (as "Ensemble"), Linda Lee (as "Ensemble"), Roger Livesey (as "Mr. Horner"), Elizabeth Malloch (as "Ensemble"), Helena Pickard (as "Mrs. Squeamish"), Anthony Quayle (as "Mr. Harcourt") [Broadway debut], Warren Reid (as "Ensemble"), Lewis Sealy (as "Ensemble"), Reginald Stanborough Ensemble"), Donald Stevens (as "Ensemble"), Alice Thompson (as "Ensemble"), Helen Trenholme (as "Miss Alithea, sister of Pinchwife"), Jane Vaughn (as "Lucy, Alithea's maid"), Percy Waram (as "Mr. Pinchwife"). Produced by Gilbert Miller. Produced in association with Helen Hayes. Note: Work has been produced several times on film and on TV, first adapted as a short, The Country Girl (1915).
- (1937) Stage Play: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse. Melodrama. Written by Barré Lyndon. Scenic Design by Raymond Sovey. Directed by Lewis Allen. Hudson Theatre: 2 Mar 1937- May 1937 (closing date unknown/80 performances). Cast: Victor Beecroft, Ross Chetwynd, Clarence Derwent (as "Benny Kellerman"), Alexander Field, Edward Fielding, Stephen Fox, Cedric Hardwicke (as "Dr. Clitterhouse, M.R.C.P."), Muriel Hutchison, Ernest Jay, Ralph Sumpter, Helen Trenholme (as "Nurse Ann"). Produced by Gilbert Miller. Note: Produced on film by Warner Brothers as The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938).
- (1938) Stage Play: Bachelor Born. Comedy. Written by Ian Hay. Scenic Design by Watson Barratt. Directed by Frederick Leister. Morosco Theatre (moved to The Lyceum Theatre from 25 Jan 1938- Jan 1939 (closing date unknown/500 performances). Cast: Frederick Leister, Phoebe Foster, Aubrey Mather, Peggy Simpson, Josephine Brown, Francis Compton, Sally Fitzpatrick, Arthur Gould-Porter, Stephen Ker-Appleby, Lester Lonergan III, Gary McCully, Gavin Muir (as "Victor Beamish"), William Packer, Jane Sterling, Bertram Tanswell, Philip Tonge (as "Rev. Edmund Ovington"), Helen Trenholme (as "Rosemary Faringdon"). Produced by Milton Shubert. Produced in association with Ruth Selwyn.
- (1938) Stage Play: Come Across. Comedy. Written by Guy Beauchamp and Michael Pertwee. Directed by Edward C. Lilley. Playhouse Theatre: 14 Sep 1938-Sep 1938 (closing date unknown/13 performances). Cast: Arling Alcine (as "Detective Sgt. Foray"), Don Costello (as "Ratkin"), Cameron Hall (as "Lacey"), Mary Heberden (as "Probationer"), Claude Horton (as "Sir John Twining"), Charles Jordan (as "Duggan"), A.P. Kaye (as "Chief Inpsector Wentworth"), May Marshall (as "Sister"), Owen Martin (as "Lefty Grey"), David Orrick McDearmon (credited as David Orrick; as "Dr. Richards"), Byron Russell (as "George"), Bernard Savage (as "Constable Mahon"), Richard Taber (as "Scratch"), Harold Thomas (as "Attendant"), Helen Trenholme (as "Janet Kemp"), Arthur Vinton (as "Mark Ryder"), Richard Waring (as "Dr. Peter Willens"). Produced by George Bushar and John Tuerk. Produced in association with William A. Brady.
- (1939) Stage Play: The Importance of Being Earnest. Comedy (revival). Written by Oscar Wilde. Scenic Design by Watson Barratt. Direced by Estelle Winwood. Vanderbilt Theatre: 12 Jan 1939- Mar 1939 (closing date unkinown/61 performances). Cast: Clifton Webb (as "John Worthing, J.P. Of the Manor House, Woolton, Hertfordshire"), Hope Williams (as "Miss Prism, Miss Cardew's governess"), Estelle Winwood (as "Lady Bracknell"), A.G. Andrews (as "Merriman, butler to Mr. Worthing"), Ainsworth Arnold (as "Reverend Canon Chasuble, D.D., Rector of Woolton"), Florence McGee (as "Cecily Cardew, John Worthing's ward"), Guy Spaull (as "Lane, Mr. Moncrieff's man-servant"), Helen Trenholme (as "Honorable Gwendolyn Fairfax, Lady Bracknell's daughter"), Derek Williams (as "Algernon Moncrieff"). Produced by Richard Aldrich and Richard Meyers. Produced in association with Albert Tarbell.
- (1939) Stage Play: The Woman Brown. Drama.
- (1940) Stage Play: Boyd's Daughter. Comedy.
- (1941) Stage Play: Watch on the Rhine. Drama. Written by Lillian Hellman. Incidental music by Paul Bowles. Scenic Design by Jo Mielziner. Costume Design by Helene Pons. Assistant to Jo Mielziner: George Jenkins. Directed by Herman Shumlin. Martin Beck Theatre: 1 Apr 1941- 21 Feb 1942 (378 performances). Cast: Ann Blyth (as "Babette Muller, daughter of Kurt and Sara"), Mady Christians (as "Sara Muller, Fanny's daughter"), George Coulouris (as "Teck de Brancovis, Marthe's husband, the count"), Peter Fernandez (as "Joshua Muller, elder son of Kurt and Sara"), Eda Heinemann (as "Anise, the housekeeper"), John Lodge (as "David Farrelly, Fanny's son"), Paul Lukas (as "Kurt Muller, Sara's husband"), Eric Roberts, Helen Trenholme (as "Marthe de Brancovis, a countess"), Lucile Watson (as "Fanny Farrelly"), Frank Wilson. Produced by Herman Shumlin. Note: Filmed as Watch on the Rhine (1943).
- (1942) Stage Play: Proof Through the Night. Drama.
- Trenholme had a brief unsatisfying foray in Hollywood in 1934, only appearing in 2 pictures for Warner Brothers. Her stage career lasted a decade and included the hits VICTORIA REGINA, the comedy BACHELOR BORN (400 performances) and Lillian Hellman' s WATCH ON THE RHINE (378 performances, excellent opposite the stellar George Coulouris).
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