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Helen Jerome Eddy

Helen Jerome Eddy

Birthday: 1897-02-25 | Place of Birth: 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".

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1937
Jim Hanvey, Detective

as    Mrs. Tom Ellis

1935
Rendezvous at Midnight

as    Emmy

1935
A Shot in the Dark

as    Miss Lottie Case

1935
The Keeper of the Bees

as    Priscilla / Shorty

1933
Man's Castle

as    Mother

1932
The Bitter Tea of General Yen

as    Miss Reed

1932
Make Me a Star

as    Tessie Kearns

1932
A Parisian Romance

as    Yvonne

1931
Girls Demand Excitement

as    Gazella Perkins

1931
Skippy

as    Mrs. Wayne

1931
Mata Hari

as    Sister Genevieve

1930
Reaching for the Moon

as    Larry's Secretary

1930
War Nurse

as    Marion ("Kansas")

1927
Camille

as    Camille's maid

1919
The Tong Man

as    Sen Chee