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Helen Jerome Eddy

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1897-02-24

Day of Death

1990-01-27

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

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".

Filmography (106)

⭐ 6.8 Role: Lingerie Saleswoman (uncredited)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

1947
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⭐ 7.0 Role: Unknown

Seven Keys to Baldpate

1946
⭐ 6.6 Role: Mrs. Brewster

Strike Up the Band

1940
⭐ 7.0 Role: Miss Ferguson

Blondie Brings Up Baby

1939
⭐ 7.8 Role: Paine's Secretary (uncredited)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939
⭐ 7.1 Role: Tearoom Hostess (uncredited)

Good Girls Go to Paris

1939
⭐ 6.3 Role: Susan, Laboratory Analyst (uncredited)

Burn 'Em Up O'Connor

1939
⭐ 6.5 Role: Mrs. Lacey

The Strange Case of Dr. Meade

1938
⭐ 5.3 Role: Mrs. Thompson

Tarnished Angel

1938
⭐ 5.8 Role: Mrs. Myles

Crime Ring

1938
⭐ 7.0 Role: Miss North

City Streets

1938
⭐ 6.2 Role: Sister Martin

The Women Men Marry

1937
⭐ 7.3 Role: Shepherd's Wife (Uncredited)

The Soldier and the Lady

1937
⭐ 6.5 Role: Mrs. Tom Ellis

Jim Hanvey, Detective

1937
⭐ 6.7 Role: Mrs. Kruikshank

Stowaway

1936