Helen Jerome Eddy
Acting
Born February 24, 1897, 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".
Filmography
- 1947The Secret Life of Walter Mitty — Lingerie Saleswoman (uncredited)
- 1946Seven Keys to Baldpate
- 1940Strike Up the Band — Mrs. Brewster
- 1939Blondie Brings Up Baby — Miss Ferguson
- 1939Burn 'Em Up O'Connor — Susan, Laboratory Analyst (uncredited)
- 1939Good Girls Go to Paris — Tearoom Hostess (uncredited)
- 1939Mr. Smith Goes to Washington — Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1938City Streets — Miss North
- 1938Crime Ring — Mrs. Myles
- 1938Tarnished Angel — Mrs. Thompson
- 1938The Strange Case of Dr. Meade — Mrs. Lacey
- 1937Jim Hanvey, Detective — Mrs. Tom Ellis
- 1937The Soldier and the Lady — Shepherd's Wife (Uncredited)
- 1937The Women Men Marry — Sister Martin
- 1936Klondike Annie — Sister Annie Alden
- 1936Show Boat
- 1936Stowaway — Mrs. Kruikshank
- 1936The Country Doctor — Mrs. Ogden
- 1936Winterset — Maria Romagna
- 1935A Shot in the Dark — Miss Lottie Case
- 1935Bride of Frankenstein — Gypsy's Wife (uncredited)
- 1935Carnival — Dr. Hodges
- 1935Helldorado — Miss Fife
- 1935Rendezvous at Midnight — Emmy
- 1935The Girl from 10th Avenue — Miss Mansfield
- 1935The Keeper of the Bees — Priscilla / Shorty
- 1934A Girl of the Limberlost — Margaret Sinton
- 1934Dr. Monica — Miss Gelsey (uncredited)
- 1934Riptide — Celeste
- 1934Unknown Blonde — Miss Adams
- 1933Broadway Thru a Keyhole — Esther
- 1933Frisco Jenny — Amah
- 1933Man's Castle — Mother (uncredited)
- 1933Night Flight — Worried Mother
- 1933Strictly Personal — Mrs. Lovett (uncredited)
- 1933The Bitter Tea of General Yen — Miss Reed
- 1933The Masquerader — Robbins
- 1933Torch Singer — Miss Spaulding
- 1932A Parisian Romance — Yvonne
- 1932Madame Butterfly — Cho-cho San's Mother
- 1932Make Me a Star — Tessie Kearns
- 1932No Greater Love — Superintendent
- 1932The Impatient Maiden — Mrs. Gilman
- 1932The Night of June 13 — Martha Blake
- 1931Girls Demand Excitement — Gazella Perkins
- 1931Manhattan Parade — Delman's Secretary
- 1931Mata Hari — Sister Genevieve
- 1931Skippy — Mrs. Wayne
- 1931Sooky — Mrs Wayne
- 1931The Great Meadow — Sally Tolliver
- 1930Niagara Falls — Wife / Edna Smith
- 1930Reaching for the Moon — Larry's Secretary
- 1930War Nurse — Marion ("Kansas")
- 1929Blue Skies — Second Assistant Matron (episode 2)
- 1929Midstream — Mary Mason
- 1929Railroadin'
- 1929Small Talk — Wheezer's new mother
- 192813 Washington Square — Olivetta
- 1928Chicago After Midnight — Mrs. Boyd
- 1928The Divine Lady — Lady Nelson
- 1927Camille — Camille's maid
- 1927Quality Street — Susan Throssel
- 1926Padlocked — Belle Galloway
- 1925The Dark Angel — Miss Bottles
- 1924The Fire Patrol — Emma Thatcher
- 1924To the Ladies — Elsie Beebe
- 1923An Old Sweetheart of Mine — Mary Ellen Anderson
- 1923The Country Kid — Hazel Warren
- 1922The Flirt — Laura Madison
- 1922When Love Comes — Jane Coleridge
- 1921One Man in a Million — Flora Valenzi
- 1921The First Born — Loey Tsing
- 1921The March Hare — Susie
- 1921The Ten Dollar Raise — Emily
- 1920A City Sparrow — Hester Neil
- 1920A Light Woman — Doris Kane
- 1920Miss Hobbs — Beulah Hackett
- 1920Pollyanna — Nancy Thing
- 1920The County Fair — Sally Greenway
- 1920The Forbidden Thing — Joan
- 1919A Very Good Young Man — Osprey Bacchus
- 1919The Blinding Trail — Adele Grey
- 1919The Boomerang — Nora Yorke
- 1919The Man Beneath — Kate Erskine
- 1919The Tong Man — Sen Chee
- 1919The Turn in the Road — Jane Barker
- 1918Breakers Ahead — Agnes Bowman
- 1918Jules of the Strong Heart — Joy Farnsworth
- 1918Old Wives for New — Norma Murdock
- 1918One More American — Lucia
- 1918Winner Takes All — Frances Landcrafe
- 1917His Sweetheart — Trina Capino
- 1917Lost in Transit — Nita Lapi
- 1917Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm — Hannah Randall
- 1917The Cook of Canyon Camp — Marie
- 1917The Fair Barbarian — Maid
- 1917The Marcellini Millions — Antoinetta Bartelli
- 1916Her Father's Son — Betty Fletcher
- 1916Madame la Presidente — Denise Galipaux (as Helen Eddy)
- 1916Pasquale — Margarita
- 1916Redeeming Love — Katie
- 1916The Code of Marcia Gray — Crane's Daughter
- 1916The Tongues of Men — Winifred Leeds
- 1915As the Twig Is Bent — Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy)
- 1915The Gentleman from Indiana
- 1915The Red Virgin — Rose - the Mother