Helen Jerome Eddy
Born
February 24, 1897
Died
January 27, 1990 (92 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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".
Known For
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Lingerie Saleswoman (uncredited)
1947
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1946
Strike Up the Band
Mrs. Brewster
1940
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Miss Ferguson
1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
1939
Good Girls Go to Paris
Tearoom Hostess (uncredited)
1939
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
Susan, Laboratory Analyst (uncredited)
1939
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Mrs. Lacey
1938
Tarnished Angel
Mrs. Thompson
1938
Crime Ring
Mrs. Myles
1938
City Streets
Miss North
1938
The Women Men Marry
Sister Martin
1937
The Soldier and the Lady
Shepherd's Wife (Uncredited)
1937
Jim Hanvey, Detective
Mrs. Tom Ellis
1937
Stowaway
Mrs. Kruikshank
1936
Winterset
Maria Romagna
1936
Show Boat
1936
The Country Doctor
Mrs. Ogden
1936
Klondike Annie
Sister Annie Alden
1936
The Keeper of the Bees
Priscilla / Shorty
1935
The Girl from 10th Avenue
Miss Mansfield
1935
Bride of Frankenstein
Gypsy's Wife (uncredited)
1935
Carnival
Dr. Hodges
1935
Rendezvous at Midnight
Emmy
1935
A Shot in the Dark
Miss Lottie Case
1935
Helldorado
Miss Fife
1935
A Girl of the Limberlost
Margaret Sinton
1934
Dr. Monica
Miss Gelsey (uncredited)
1934
Unknown Blonde
Miss Adams
1934
Riptide
Celeste
1934
Man's Castle
Mother (uncredited)
1933
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Esther
1933
Night Flight
Worried Mother
1933
Torch Singer
Miss Spaulding
1933
The Masquerader
Robbins
1933
Strictly Personal
Mrs. Lovett (uncredited)
1933
Frisco Jenny
Amah
1933
Madame Butterfly
Cho-Cho's Mother
1932
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Miss Reed
1932
A Parisian Romance
Yvonne
1932
The Night of June 13
Martha Blake
1932
Make Me a Star
Tessie Kearns
1932
The Impatient Maiden
Mrs. Gilman
1932
Mata Hari
Sister Genevieve
1931
Sooky
Mrs Wayne
1931
Manhattan Parade
Delman's Secretary
1931
Skippy
Mrs. Wayne
1931
Girls Demand Excitement
Gazella Perkins
1931
The Great Meadow
Sally Tolliver
1931
Reaching for the Moon
Larry's Secretary
1930
War Nurse
Marion ("Kansas")
1930
Niagara Falls
Wife / Edna Smith
1930
Midstream
Mary Mason
1929
Railroadin'
1929
Small Talk
Wheezer's new mother
1929
Blue Skies
Second Assistant Matron (episode 2)
1929
The Divine Lady
Lady Nelson
1928
Chicago After Midnight
Mrs. Boyd
1928
13 Washington Square
Olivetta
1928
Quality Street
Susan Throssel
1927
Camille
Camille's maid
1927
Padlocked
Belle Galloway
1926
The Dark Angel
Miss Bottles
1925
To the Ladies
Elsie Beebe
1924
The Fire Patrol
Emma Thatcher
1924
The Country Kid
Hazel Warren
1923
An Old Sweetheart of Mine
Mary Ellen Anderson
1923
The Flirt
Laura Madison
1922
When Love Comes
Jane Coleridge
1922
The March Hare
Susie
1921
The First Born
Loey Tsing
1921
The Forbidden Thing
Joan
1920
A City Sparrow
Hester Neil
1920
A Light Woman
Doris Kane
1920
The County Fair
Sally Greenway
1920
Miss Hobbs
Beulah Hackett
1920
Pollyanna
Nancy Thing
1920
The Tong Man
Sen Chee
1919
The Man Beneath
Kate Erskine
1919
The Blinding Trail
Adele Grey
1919
Winner Takes All
Frances Landcrafe
1918
Old Wives for New
Norma Murdock
1918
Breakers Ahead
Agnes Bowman
1918
One More American
Lucia
1918
The Fair Barbarian
Maid
1917
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Hannah Randall
1917
The Marcellini Millions
Antoinetta Bartelli
1917
Redeeming Love
Katie
1916
Her Father's Son
Betty Fletcher
1916
Madame la Presidente
Denise Galipaux (as Helen Eddy)
1916
The Gentleman from Indiana
1915
As the Twig Is Bent
Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy)
1915