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Helen Jerome Eddy
Actor
Born February 24, 1897Died January 27, 1990 (92 years)
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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".
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".
Filmography
| 1955 | The Little Rascals (TV Series) · as Helen Eddy (1955) |
| 1947 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · as Lingerie Saleswoman (uncredited) |
| 1946 | |
| 1940 | Strike Up the Band · as Mrs. Brewster |
| 1939 | Blondie Brings Up Baby · as Miss Ferguson |
| 1939 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · as Paine's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Good Girls Go to Paris · as Tearoom Hostess (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Burn 'Em Up O'Connor · as Susan, Laboratory Analyst (uncredited) |
| 1938 | The Strange Case of Dr. Meade · as Mrs. Lacey |
| 1938 | Tarnished Angel · as Mrs. Thompson |
| 1938 | Crime Ring · as Mrs. Myles |
| 1937 | The Women Men Marry · as Sister Martin |
| 1937 | The Soldier and the Lady · as Shepherd's Wife (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Jim Hanvey, Detective · as Mrs. Tom Ellis |
| 1937 | Nancy Steele Is Missing! · as Nurse |
| 1936 | Stowaway · as Mrs. Kruikshank |
| 1936 | Winterset · as Maria Romagna |
| 1936 | The Garden of Allah · as Nun |
| 1936 | The Crime of Dr. Forbes · as Timid Woman |
| 1936 | |
| 1936 | The Country Doctor · as Mrs. Ogden |
| 1936 | Klondike Annie · as Sister Annie Alden |
| 1935 | The Keeper of the Bees · as Priscilla / Shorty |
| 1935 | The Girl from 10th Avenue · as Miss Mansfield |
| 1935 | Bride of Frankenstein · as Gypsy's Wife (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Carnival · as Dr. Hodges |
| 1935 | A Shot in the Dark · as Miss Lottie Case |
| 1934 | A Girl of the Limberlost · as Margaret Sinton |
| 1934 | Dr. Monica · as Miss Gelsey (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Riptide · as Celeste |
| 1933 | Man's Castle · as Mother (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Broadway Thru a Keyhole · as Esther |
| 1933 | Night Flight · as Worried Mother |
| 1933 | Torch Singer · as Miss Spaulding |
| 1933 | The Masquerader · as Robbins |
| 1933 | Strictly Personal · as Mrs. Lovett (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Madame Butterfly · as Cho-Cho's Mother |
| 1932 | Frisco Jenny · as Amah |
| 1932 | The Bitter Tea of General Yen · as Miss Reed |
| 1932 | A Parisian Romance · as Yvonne |
| 1932 | The Night of June 13 · as Martha Blake |
| 1932 | Make Me a Star · as Tessie Kearns |
| 1932 | The Impatient Maiden · as Mrs. Gilman |
| 1931 | Sooky · as Mrs Wayne |
| 1931 | Mata Hari · as Sister Genevieve |
| 1931 | Manhattan Parade · as Delman's Secretary |
| 1931 | Skippy · as Mrs. Wayne |
| 1931 | Girls Demand Excitement · as Gazella Perkins |
| 1931 | The Great Meadow · as Sally Tolliver |
| 1930 | Reaching for the Moon · as Larry's Secretary |
| 1930 | War Nurse · as Marion ("kansas") |
| 1929 | Midstream · as Mary Mason |
| 1929 | |
| 1929 | Small Talk · as Wheezer's New Mother |
| 1928 | The Divine Lady · as Lady Nelson |
| 1928 | 13 Washington Square · as Olivetta |
| 1927 | Quality Street · as Susan Throssel |
| 1926 | Camille · as Camille's Maid |
| 1925 | Marry Me · as Sarah Hume |
| 1923 | To the Ladies · as Elsie Beebe |
| 1920 | The County Fair · as Sally Greenway |
| 1920 | Pollyanna · as Nancy Thing |
| 1919 | The Tong Man · as Sen Chee |
| 1919 | The Man Beneath · as Kate Erskine |
| 1918 | Old Wives for New · as Norma Murdock |
| 1917 | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm · as Hannah Randall |