Helen Jerome Eddy

Helen Jerome Eddy (92)

1897-02-24 - 1990-01-27 | New York City, New York, USA

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".

On Movies

  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  • Seven Keys to Baldpate
  • Strike Up the Band
  • Blondie Brings Up Baby
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Good Girls Go to Paris
  • Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
  • Tarnished Angel
  • Crime Ring
  • City Streets
  • The Women Men Marry
  • The Soldier and the Lady
  • Jim Hanvey, Detective
  • Stowaway
  • Winterset
  • Show Boat
  • The Country Doctor
  • Klondike Annie
  • The Keeper of the Bees
  • The Girl from 10th Avenue
  • Bride of Frankenstein
  • Carnival
  • Rendezvous at Midnight
  • A Shot in the Dark
  • Helldorado
  • A Girl of the Limberlost
  • Dr. Monica
  • Unknown Blonde
  • Riptide
  • Man's Castle
  • Broadway Thru a Keyhole
  • Night Flight
  • Torch Singer
  • The Masquerader
  • Strictly Personal
  • Frisco Jenny
  • Madame Butterfly
  • The Bitter Tea of General Yen
  • A Parisian Romance
  • The Night of June 13
  • Make Me a Star
  • The Impatient Maiden
  • Mata Hari
  • Sooky
  • Manhattan Parade
  • Skippy
  • Girls Demand Excitement
  • The Great Meadow
  • Reaching for the Moon
  • War Nurse
  • Niagara Falls
  • Midstream
  • Railroadin'
  • Small Talk
  • Blue Skies
  • The Divine Lady
  • Chicago After Midnight
  • 13 Washington Square
  • Quality Street
  • Camille
  • The Dark Angel
  • To the Ladies
  • The Country Kid
  • The Flirt
  • When Love Comes
  • The March Hare
  • The First Born
  • The Forbidden Thing
  • A City Sparrow
  • A Light Woman
  • The County Fair
  • Miss Hobbs
  • Pollyanna
  • The Tong Man
  • The Man Beneath
  • The Blinding Trail
  • Winner Takes All
  • Old Wives for New
  • Breakers Ahead
  • One More American
  • The Fair Barbarian
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
  • The Marcellini Millions
  • Redeeming Love
  • Her Father's Son
  • Madame la Presidente
  • The Gentleman from Indiana
  • As the Twig Is Bent

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