Helen Jerome Eddy
Acting
Born 1897-02-24
Died 1990-01-27
New York City, New York, USA
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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. 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".
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Acting
58 credits
Bride of Frankenstein
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Mata Hari
Quality Street
Blue Skies
Tarnished Angel
His Sweetheart
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Unknown Blonde
Stowaway
City Streets
Breakers Ahead
Jim Hanvey, Detective
Madame Butterfly
Torch Singer
Strike Up the Band
Pasquale
Midstream
Riptide
The Night of June 13
The Country Doctor
Night Flight
Good Girls Go to Paris
Girls Demand Excitement
The Impatient Maiden
The Soldier and the Lady
Winterset
Skippy
Blondie Brings Up Baby
The Divine Lady
Man's Castle
Reaching for the Moon
Pollyanna
Klondike Annie
The Great Meadow
Manhattan Parade
Niagara Falls
Helldorado
The Tongues of Men
One Man in a Million
Frisco Jenny
Strictly Personal
No Greater Love
Crime Ring
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
The Women Men Marry
The Tong Man
Carnival
One More American
War Nurse
The Ten Dollar Raise
Jules of the Strong Heart
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Make Me a Star
A Shot in the Dark
The Masquerader
Camille
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