Helen Jerome Eddy

Known for ActingBorn 1897-02-24Died 1990-01-27New York City, New York, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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".Read more

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Rendezvous at Midnight

Girls Demand Excitement

Blue Skies

Midstream

Chicago After Midnight

The March Hare

A Very Good Young Man

Helldorado

The Impatient Maiden

The Country Kid

A City Sparrow

The Turn in the Road

As the Twig Is Bent

Carnival

The Dark Angel

To the Ladies

When Love Comes

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

The Ten Dollar Raise

One Man in a Million

The Forbidden Thing

The Cook of Canyon Camp

The Red Virgin

Bride of Frankenstein

Strictly Personal

The Night of June 13

The Soldier and the Lady

Good Girls Go to Paris

Seven Keys to Baldpate

Blondie Brings Up Baby

No Greater Love

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Padlocked

The Fire Patrol

The Flirt

The First Born

Miss Hobbs

Man's Castle

Quality Street

The Girl from 10th Avenue

Stowaway

Show Boat

Riptide

Strike Up the Band

Frisco Jenny

The Strange Case of Dr. Meade

Jim Hanvey, Detective

The Country Doctor