Background
Stanley was born in Gary, Indiana.
Stanley was born in Gary, Indiana.
Her parents were Michael Freymouth, who was an acrobat who worked in Europe, and Gerty Freymouth. By the age of 14 she made her first role in the film Girls" Town in 1942. Then she played a series of roles at Universal between 1943 to 1945 (sometimes she took part of a teen dancing group called "The Jivin" Jacks and Jills") and during this period she identified as Dolores Diane.
In 1946 she started to work with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and began to identify herself as Helene Stanley.
Her collaboration with Disney started around 1950. She became the live-action model for Cinderella"s Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty"s Aurora and the character of Anita Radcliff in One Hundred and One Dalmatians.