Helen Jerome Eddy
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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".
Acted in
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947
as Lingerie Saleswoman (uncredited)
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1946
Strike Up the Band
1940
as Mrs. Brewster
Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939
as Miss Ferguson
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
as Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939
as Tearoom Hostess (uncredited)
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
1939
as Susan, Laboratory Analyst (uncredited)
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
1938
as Mrs. Lacey
Tarnished Angel
1938
as Mrs. Thompson
Crime Ring
1938
as Mrs. Myles
City Streets
1938
as Miss North
The Women Men Marry
1937
as Sister Martin
The Soldier and the Lady
1937
as Shepherd's Wife (Uncredited)
Jim Hanvey, Detective
1937
as Mrs. Tom Ellis
Stowaway
1936
as Mrs. Kruikshank
Winterset
1936
as Maria Romagna
Show Boat
1936
The Country Doctor
1936
as Mrs. Ogden
Klondike Annie
1936
as Sister Annie Alden
The Keeper of the Bees
1935
as Priscilla / Shorty
The Girl from 10th Avenue
1935
as Miss Mansfield
Bride of Frankenstein
1935
as Gypsy's Wife (uncredited)
Carnival
1935
as Dr. Hodges
Rendezvous at Midnight
1935
as Emmy
A Shot in the Dark
1935
as Miss Lottie Case
Helldorado
1935
as Miss Fife
A Girl of the Limberlost
1934
as Margaret Sinton
Dr. Monica
1934
as Miss Gelsey (uncredited)
Unknown Blonde
1934
as Miss Adams
Riptide
1934
as Celeste
Man's Castle
1933
as Mother (uncredited)
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
1933
as Esther
Night Flight
1933
as Worried Mother
Torch Singer
1933
as Miss Spaulding
The Masquerader
1933
as Robbins
Strictly Personal
1933
as Mrs. Lovett (uncredited)
Frisco Jenny
1933
as Amah
Madame Butterfly
1932
as Cho-Cho's Mother
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932
as Miss Reed
A Parisian Romance
1932
as Yvonne
The Night of June 13
1932
as Martha Blake
Make Me a Star
1932
as Tessie Kearns
The Impatient Maiden
1932
as Mrs. Gilman
Mata Hari
1931
as Sister Genevieve
Sooky
1931
as Mrs Wayne
Manhattan Parade
1931
as Delman's Secretary
Skippy
1931
as Mrs. Wayne
Girls Demand Excitement
1931
as Gazella Perkins
The Great Meadow
1931
as Sally Tolliver
Reaching for the Moon
1930
as Larry's Secretary
War Nurse
1930
as Marion ("Kansas")
Niagara Falls
1930
as Wife / Edna Smith
Midstream
1929
as Mary Mason
Railroadin'
1929
Small Talk
1929
as Wheezer's new mother
Blue Skies
1929
as Second Assistant Matron (episode 2)
The Divine Lady
1928
as Lady Nelson
Chicago After Midnight
1928
as Mrs. Boyd
13 Washington Square
1928
as Olivetta
Quality Street
1927
as Susan Throssel
Camille
1927
as Camille's maid
Padlocked
1926
as Belle Galloway
The Dark Angel
1925
as Miss Bottles
To the Ladies
1924
as Elsie Beebe
The Fire Patrol
1924
as Emma Thatcher
The Country Kid
1923
as Hazel Warren
The Flirt
1922
as Laura Madison
When Love Comes
1922
as Jane Coleridge
The March Hare
1921
as Susie
The First Born
1921
as Loey Tsing
The Forbidden Thing
1920
as Joan
A City Sparrow
1920
as Hester Neil
A Light Woman
1920
as Doris Kane
The County Fair
1920
as Sally Greenway
Miss Hobbs
1920
as Beulah Hackett
Pollyanna
1920
as Nancy Thing
The Tong Man
1919
as Sen Chee
The Man Beneath
1919
as Kate Erskine
The Blinding Trail
1919
as Adele Grey
Winner Takes All
1918
as Frances Landcrafe
Old Wives for New
1918
as Norma Murdock
Breakers Ahead
1918
as Agnes Bowman
One More American
1918
as Lucia
The Fair Barbarian
1917
as Maid
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1917
as Hannah Randall
The Marcellini Millions
1917
as Antoinetta Bartelli
Redeeming Love
1916
as Katie
Her Father's Son
1916
as Betty Fletcher
Madame la Presidente
1916
as Denise Galipaux (as Helen Eddy)
The Gentleman from Indiana
1915
As the Twig Is Bent
1915
as Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy)