Helen Jerome Eddy
Actor
Biography
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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".
Filmography
Bride of Frankenstein
as Gypsy's Wife (uncredited) 1935
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Lingerie Saleswoman (uncredited) 1947
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
as Miss Reed 1932
Mata Hari
as Sister Genevieve 1931
Show Boat
1936
Man's Castle
as Mother (uncredited) 1933
Stowaway
as Mrs. Kruikshank 1936
The Divine Lady
as Lady Nelson 1928
Strike Up the Band
as Mrs. Brewster 1940
Skippy
as Mrs. Wayne 1931
Pollyanna
as Nancy Thing 1920
Night Flight
as Worried Mother 1933
Madame Butterfly
as Cho-Cho's Mother 1932
Frisco Jenny
as Amah 1933
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as Hannah Randall 1917
Klondike Annie
as Sister Annie Alden 1936