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