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)
Riptide
Celeste
Mata Hari
Sister Genevieve
City Streets
Miss North
Blue Skies
Second Assistant Matron (episode 2)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Unknown Blonde
Miss Adams
Tarnished Angel
Mrs. Thompson
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Lingerie Saleswoman (uncredited)
Breakers Ahead
Agnes Bowman
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Miss Reed
Winterset
Maria Romagna
Show Boat
The Soldier and the Lady
Shepherd's Wife (Uncredited)
Niagara Falls
Wife / Edna Smith
Pollyanna
Nancy Thing
Night Flight
Worried Mother
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Esther
Midstream
Mary Mason
The Forbidden Thing
Joan
An Old Sweetheart of Mine
Mary Ellen Anderson
Crime Ring
Mrs. Myles
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Hannah Randall
Skippy
Mrs. Wayne
Frisco Jenny
Amah
Stowaway
Mrs. Kruikshank
Klondike Annie
Sister Annie Alden
Camille
Camille's maid
Strike Up the Band
Mrs. Brewster
Old Wives for New
Norma Murdock
Manhattan Parade
Delman's Secretary
Madame Butterfly
Cho-Cho's Mother
Man's Castle
Mother (uncredited)
The Impatient Maiden
Mrs. Gilman
The Tong Man
Sen Chee
Good Girls Go to Paris
Tearoom Hostess (uncredited)
Make Me a Star
Tessie Kearns
The Country Doctor
Mrs. Ogden
The Women Men Marry
Sister Martin
A Shot in the Dark
Miss Lottie Case
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Miss Ferguson
The Girl from 10th Avenue
Miss Mansfield
The Divine Lady
Lady Nelson
Reaching for the Moon
Larry's Secretary
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
Susan, Laboratory Analyst (uncredited)
Jim Hanvey, Detective
Mrs. Tom Ellis
The Night of June 13
Martha Blake
Carnival
Dr. Hodges
Girls Demand Excitement
Gazella Perkins
The Great Meadow
Sally Tolliver
13 Washington Square
Olivetta
Dr. Monica
Miss Gelsey (uncredited)
To the Ladies
Elsie Beebe
Quality Street
Susan Throssel
Rendezvous at Midnight
Emmy
Torch Singer
Miss Spaulding
The Fair Barbarian
Maid
Strictly Personal
Mrs. Lovett (uncredited)
A Girl of the Limberlost
Margaret Sinton
Helldorado
Miss Fife
Padlocked
Belle Galloway
The March Hare
Susie
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Mrs. Lacey
The Keeper of the Bees
Priscilla / Shorty
The Flirt
Laura Madison
One More American
Lucia
The Masquerader
Robbins
Chicago After Midnight
Mrs. Boyd
War Nurse
Marion ("Kansas")
Madame la Presidente
Denise Galipaux (as Helen Eddy)
Miss Hobbs
Beulah Hackett
The First Born
Loey Tsing
A Parisian Romance
Yvonne
The Country Kid
Hazel Warren
Sooky
Mrs Wayne
The Fire Patrol
Emma Thatcher
The Gentleman from Indiana
The County Fair
Sally Greenway
Small Talk
Wheezer's new mother
A Light Woman
Doris Kane
Seven Keys to Baldpate
The Man Beneath
Kate Erskine
Railroadin'
Redeeming Love
Katie
The Boomerang
Nora Yorke
Winner Takes All
Frances Landcrafe
The Dark Angel
Miss Bottles
The Marcellini Millions
Antoinetta Bartelli
The Blinding Trail
Adele Grey
Her Father's Son
Betty Fletcher
No Greater Love
Superintendent
The Ten Dollar Raise
Emily
A City Sparrow
Hester Neil
When Love Comes
Jane Coleridge
The Turn in the Road
Jane Barker
A Very Good Young Man
Osprey Bacchus
Jules of the Strong Heart
Joy Farnsworth
His Sweetheart
Trina Capino
Lost in Transit
Nita Lapi
One Man in a Million
Flora Valenzi
As the Twig Is Bent
Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy)
The Red Virgin
Rose - the Mother
Pasquale
Margarita