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Helen Jerome Eddy
Actor

Helen Jerome Eddy

24 Feb 1897Born
27 Jan 1990Died
92Age at death
106Credits

Biography

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Helen Jerome Eddy (February 25, 1897 – January 27, 1990) was a motion picture actress from New York, New York. She was noted as a character actress who played genteel heroines in films such as Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917).

Eddy was born on February 25, 1897, and was raised in Los Angeles, California. As a youth, she acted in productions put on by the Pasadena Playhouse. She became interested in films through the studios of Siegmund Lubin, which was based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In her youth they opened a backlot in her Los Angeles neighborhood.

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Eddy died of heart failure on January 27, 1990, in Alhambra, California, at the age of 92.

Eddy's first movie was The Discontented Man (1915). Soon after, she left Lubin and joined Paramount Pictures. At this time she began to play the roles for which she is best remembered. Other films in which the actress participated include The March Hare (1921), The Dark Angel, Camille, Quality Street, The Divine Lady (1929) and the first Our Gang talkie Small Talk (1929).

She made Girls Demand Excitement in 1931 and her final film, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, in 1947. Even as a seasoned performer in the late 1920s it was remarked that Eddy looked "astonishingly young in appearance to have been in pictures for so many years".

Known for

Filmography

The 80 most recent of 106 credits.

  1. 1947The Secret Life of Walter MittyFilm: Lingerie Saleswoman (uncredited)
  2. 1946Seven Keys to BaldpateFilm
  3. 1940Strike Up the BandFilm: Mrs. Brewster
  4. 1939Blondie Brings Up BabyFilm: Miss Ferguson
  5. 1939Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonFilm: Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
  6. 1939Good Girls Go to ParisFilm: Tearoom Hostess (uncredited)
  7. 1939Burn 'Em Up O'ConnorFilm: Susan, Laboratory Analyst (uncredited)
  8. 1938The Strange Case of Dr. MeadeFilm: Mrs. Lacey
  9. 1938Tarnished AngelFilm: Mrs. Thompson
  10. 1938Crime RingFilm: Mrs. Myles
  11. 1938City StreetsFilm: Miss North
  12. 1937The Women Men MarryFilm: Sister Martin
  13. 1937The Soldier and the LadyFilm: Shepherd's Wife (Uncredited)
  14. 1937Jim Hanvey, DetectiveFilm: Mrs. Tom Ellis
  15. 1936StowawayFilm: Mrs. Kruikshank
  16. 1936WintersetFilm: Maria Romagna
  17. 1936Show BoatFilm
  18. 1936The Country DoctorFilm: Mrs. Ogden
  19. 1936Klondike AnnieFilm: Sister Annie Alden
  20. 1935The Keeper of the BeesFilm: Priscilla / Shorty
  21. 1935The Girl from 10th AvenueFilm: Miss Mansfield
  22. 1935Bride of FrankensteinFilm: Gypsy's Wife (uncredited)
  23. 1935CarnivalFilm: Dr. Hodges
  24. 1935Rendezvous at MidnightFilm: Emmy
  25. 1935A Shot in the DarkFilm: Miss Lottie Case
  26. 1935HelldoradoFilm: Miss Fife
  27. 1934A Girl of the LimberlostFilm: Margaret Sinton
  28. 1934Dr. MonicaFilm: Miss Gelsey (uncredited)
  29. 1934Unknown BlondeFilm: Miss Adams
  30. 1934RiptideFilm: Celeste
  31. 1933Man's CastleFilm: Mother (uncredited)
  32. 1933Broadway Thru a KeyholeFilm: Esther
  33. 1933Night FlightFilm: Worried Mother
  34. 1933Torch SingerFilm: Miss Spaulding
  35. 1933The MasqueraderFilm: Robbins
  36. 1933Strictly PersonalFilm: Mrs. Lovett (uncredited)
  37. 1933Frisco JennyFilm: Amah
  38. 1933The Bitter Tea of General YenFilm: Miss Reed
  39. 1932Madame ButterflyFilm: Cho-cho San's Mother
  40. 1932A Parisian RomanceFilm: Yvonne
  41. 1932The Night of June 13Film: Martha Blake
  42. 1932Make Me a StarFilm: Tessie Kearns
  43. 1932No Greater LoveFilm: Superintendent
  44. 1932The Impatient MaidenFilm: Mrs. Gilman
  45. 1931Mata HariFilm: Sister Genevieve
  46. 1931SookyFilm: Mrs Wayne
  47. 1931Manhattan ParadeFilm: Delman's Secretary
  48. 1931SkippyFilm: Mrs. Wayne
  49. 1931Girls Demand ExcitementFilm: Gazella Perkins
  50. 1931The Great MeadowFilm: Sally Tolliver
  51. 1930Reaching for the MoonFilm: Larry's Secretary
  52. 1930War NurseFilm: Marion ("Kansas")
  53. 1930Niagara FallsFilm: Wife / Edna Smith
  54. 1929MidstreamFilm: Mary Mason
  55. 1929Railroadin'Film
  56. 1929Small TalkFilm: Wheezer's new mother
  57. 1929Blue SkiesFilm: Second Assistant Matron (episode 2)
  58. 1928The Divine LadyFilm: Lady Nelson
  59. 1928Chicago After MidnightFilm: Mrs. Boyd
  60. 192813 Washington SquareFilm: Olivetta
  61. 1927Quality StreetFilm: Susan Throssel
  62. 1927CamilleFilm: Camille's maid
  63. 1926PadlockedFilm: Belle Galloway
  64. 1925The Dark AngelFilm: Miss Bottles
  65. 1924To the LadiesFilm: Elsie Beebe
  66. 1924The Fire PatrolFilm: Emma Thatcher
  67. 1923The Country KidFilm: Hazel Warren
  68. 1923An Old Sweetheart of MineFilm: Mary Ellen Anderson
  69. 1922The FlirtFilm: Laura Madison
  70. 1922When Love ComesFilm: Jane Coleridge
  71. 1921The March HareFilm: Susie
  72. 1921The Ten Dollar RaiseFilm: Emily
  73. 1921One Man in a MillionFilm: Flora Valenzi
  74. 1921The First BornFilm: Loey Tsing
  75. 1920The Forbidden ThingFilm: Joan
  76. 1920A City SparrowFilm: Hester Neil
  77. 1920A Light WomanFilm: Doris Kane
  78. 1920The County FairFilm: Sally Greenway
  79. 1920Miss HobbsFilm: Beulah Hackett
  80. 1920PollyannaFilm: Nancy Thing

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