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".
Acted in 101
1940s
- 1947
- 1940
1930s
- 1939
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Miss Ferguson
Good Girls Go to Paris
Tearoom Hostess (uncredited)
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
Susan, Laboratory Analyst (uncredited)
- 1938
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Mrs. Lacey
Crime Ring
Mrs. Myles
City Streets
Miss North
- 1937
The Women Men Marry
Sister Martin
Jim Hanvey, Detective
Mrs. Tom Ellis
- 1936
Show Boat
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The Country Doctor
Mrs. Ogden
- 1935
The Keeper of the Bees
Priscilla / Shorty
The Girl from 10th Avenue
Miss Mansfield
Carnival
Dr. Hodges
Rendezvous at Midnight
Emmy
A Shot in the Dark
Miss Lottie Case
Helldorado
Miss Fife
- 1934
A Girl of the Limberlost
Margaret Sinton
Dr. Monica
Miss Gelsey (uncredited)
Unknown Blonde
Miss Adams
- 1933
Man's Castle
Mother (uncredited)
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Esther
Night Flight
Worried Mother
Torch Singer
Miss Spaulding
The Masquerader
Robbins
Strictly Personal
Mrs. Lovett (uncredited)
Frisco Jenny
Amah
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Miss Reed
- 1932
The Night of June 13
Martha Blake
Make Me a Star
Tessie Kearns
No Greater Love
Superintendent
The Impatient Maiden
Mrs. Gilman
- 1931
Sooky
Mrs Wayne
Manhattan Parade
Delman's Secretary
Skippy
Mrs. Wayne
Girls Demand Excitement
Gazella Perkins
The Great Meadow
Sally Tolliver
- 1930
War Nurse
Marion ("Kansas")
Niagara Falls
Wife / Edna Smith
1920s
- 1929
Midstream
Mary Mason
Railroadin'
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Small Talk
Wheezer's new mother
- 1928
The Divine Lady
Lady Nelson
Chicago After Midnight
Mrs. Boyd
13 Washington Square
Olivetta
- 1927
Quality Street
Susan Throssel
Camille
Camille's maid
- 1926
Padlocked
Belle Galloway
- 1925
The Dark Angel
Miss Bottles
- 1924
To the Ladies
Elsie Beebe
The Fire Patrol
Emma Thatcher
- 1923
The Country Kid
Hazel Warren
An Old Sweetheart of Mine
Mary Ellen Anderson
- 1922
The Flirt
Laura Madison
When Love Comes
Jane Coleridge
- 1921
The March Hare
Susie
The Ten Dollar Raise
Emily
One Man in a Million
Flora Valenzi
The First Born
Loey Tsing
- 1920
The Forbidden Thing
Joan
A City Sparrow
Hester Neil
A Light Woman
Doris Kane
The County Fair
Sally Greenway
Miss Hobbs
Beulah Hackett
Pollyanna
Nancy Thing
1910s
- 1919
The Tong Man
Sen Chee
A Very Good Young Man
Osprey Bacchus
The Man Beneath
Kate Erskine
The Blinding Trail
Adele Grey
The Boomerang
Nora Yorke
The Turn in the Road
Jane Barker
- 1918
Winner Takes All
Frances Landcrafe
Old Wives for New
Norma Murdock
Breakers Ahead
Agnes Bowman
One More American
Lucia
Jules of the Strong Heart
Joy Farnsworth
- 1917
The Fair Barbarian
Maid
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Hannah Randall
Lost in Transit
Nita Lapi
The Marcellini Millions
Antoinetta Bartelli
His Sweetheart
Trina Capino
- 1916
Redeeming Love
Katie
Her Father's Son
Betty Fletcher
The Tongues of Men
Winifred Leeds
Pasquale
Margarita
The Code of Marcia Gray
Crane's Daughter
Madame la Presidente
Denise Galipaux (as Helen Eddy)
- 1915
The Gentleman from Indiana
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