Helen of Troy refuge with Leda. The swan gained her affection, and the two mated. Leda then produced an egg, from which Helen emerged. The First Vatican Mythographer introduces the notion that two eggs came from the union: one containing Castor and Pollux; one with Helen and Clytemnestra. Nevertheless, the same author earlier states that Helen, Castor and Pollux were produced from a single egg. Pseudo-Apollodorus states that Leda had intercourse with both Zeus and Tyndareus the night she conceived Helen. On the other hand, in the "Cypria", part of the Epic Cycle, Helen was the daughter of Zeus and the goddess Nemesis.
The Private Life of Helen of Troy June 1928, and was the first person to be posthumously nominated for an Academy Award. That same year, the first "talkie", "The Jazz Singer", received an honorary award for introducing sound to film, and the category for which "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" was nominated was dropped by the second Academy Awards. Two sections from the beginning and end, running about 27–30 minutes in total, are reportedly all that survive of "The Private Life of Helen of Troy"; they are preserved by the British Film Institute. The Private Life of Helen of Troy The Private Life of Helen