Helen Jerome Eddy
Biography
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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Movies (50)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Lingerie Saleswoman (uncredited)
1947
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1946
Strike Up the Band
as Mrs. Brewster
1940
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)
1939
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
as Mrs. Lacey
1938
Tarnished Angel
as Mrs. Thompson
1938
Crime Ring
as Mrs. Myles
1938
City Streets
as Miss North
1938
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
Stowaway
as Mrs. Kruikshank
1936
Winterset
as Maria Romagna
1936
Show Boat
1936
The Country Doctor
as Mrs. Ogden
1936
Klondike Annie
as Sister Annie Alden
1936
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
Rendezvous at Midnight
as Emmy
1935
A Shot in the Dark
as Miss Lottie Case
1935
Helldorado
as Miss Fife
1935
A Girl of the Limberlost
as Margaret Sinton
1934
Dr. Monica
as Miss Gelsey (uncredited)
1934
Unknown Blonde
as Miss Adams
1934
Riptide
as Celeste
1934
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)
1933
Frisco Jenny
as Amah
1933
Madame Butterfly
as Cho-Cho's Mother
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
1932
Mata Hari
as Sister Genevieve
1931
Sooky
as Mrs Wayne
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
1931
Reaching for the Moon
as Larry's Secretary
1930