Helen Jerome Eddy
Acting
1897-02-24 · New 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".
Filmography
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947 · Movie
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1946 · Movie
Strike Up the Band
1940 · Movie
Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939 · Movie
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 · Movie
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939 · Movie
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
1939 · Movie
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
1938 · Movie
Tarnished Angel
1938 · Movie
Crime Ring
1938 · Movie
City Streets
1938 · Movie
The Women Men Marry
1937 · Movie
The Soldier and the Lady
1937 · Movie
Jim Hanvey, Detective
1937 · Movie
Stowaway
1936 · Movie
Winterset
1936 · Movie
Show Boat
1936 · Movie
The Country Doctor
1936 · Movie
Klondike Annie
1936 · Movie
The Keeper of the Bees
1935 · Movie
The Girl from 10th Avenue
1935 · Movie
Bride of Frankenstein
1935 · Movie
Carnival
1935 · Movie
Rendezvous at Midnight
1935 · Movie
A Shot in the Dark
1935 · Movie
Helldorado
1935 · Movie
A Girl of the Limberlost
1934 · Movie
Dr. Monica
1934 · Movie
Unknown Blonde
1934 · Movie
Riptide
1934 · Movie
Man's Castle
1933 · Movie
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
1933 · Movie
Night Flight
1933 · Movie
Torch Singer
1933 · Movie
The Masquerader
1933 · Movie
Strictly Personal
1933 · Movie
Frisco Jenny
1933 · Movie
Madame Butterfly
1932 · Movie
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932 · Movie
A Parisian Romance
1932 · Movie
The Night of June 13
1932 · Movie
Make Me a Star
1932 · Movie
No Greater Love
1932 · Movie
The Impatient Maiden
1932 · Movie
Mata Hari
1931 · Movie
Sooky
1931 · Movie
Manhattan Parade
1931 · Movie
Skippy
1931 · Movie
Girls Demand Excitement
1931 · Movie
The Great Meadow
1931 · Movie
Reaching for the Moon
1930 · Movie
War Nurse
1930 · Movie
Niagara Falls
1930 · Movie
Midstream
1929 · Movie
Railroadin'
1929 · Movie
Small Talk
1929 · Movie
Blue Skies
1929 · Movie
The Divine Lady
1928 · Movie
Chicago After Midnight
1928 · Movie
13 Washington Square
1928 · Movie
Quality Street
1927 · Movie
Camille
1927 · Movie
Padlocked
1926 · Movie
The Dark Angel
1925 · Movie
To the Ladies
1924 · Movie
The Fire Patrol
1924 · Movie
The Country Kid
1923 · Movie
An Old Sweetheart of Mine
1923 · Movie
The Flirt
1922 · Movie
When Love Comes
1922 · Movie
The March Hare
1921 · Movie
The Ten Dollar Raise
1921 · Movie
One Man in a Million
1921 · Movie
The First Born
1921 · Movie
The Forbidden Thing
1920 · Movie
A City Sparrow
1920 · Movie
A Light Woman
1920 · Movie
The County Fair
1920 · Movie
Miss Hobbs
1920 · Movie
Pollyanna
1920 · Movie
The Tong Man
1919 · Movie
A Very Good Young Man
1919 · Movie
The Man Beneath
1919 · Movie
The Blinding Trail
1919 · Movie
The Boomerang
1919 · Movie
The Turn in the Road
1919 · Movie
Winner Takes All
1918 · Movie
Old Wives for New
1918 · Movie
Breakers Ahead
1918 · Movie
One More American
1918 · Movie
Jules of the Strong Heart
1918 · Movie
The Fair Barbarian
1917 · Movie
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1917 · Movie
Lost in Transit
1917 · Movie
The Cook of Canyon Camp
1917 · Movie
The Marcellini Millions
1917 · Movie
His Sweetheart
1917 · Movie
Redeeming Love
1916 · Movie
Her Father's Son
1916 · Movie
The Tongues of Men
1916 · Movie
Pasquale
1916 · Movie
The Code of Marcia Gray
1916 · Movie
Madame la Presidente
1916 · Movie
The Gentleman from Indiana
1915 · Movie
As the Twig Is Bent
1915 · Movie
The Red Virgin
1915 · Movie