Helen Jerome Eddy
Known for: Acting
Born: February 24, 1897
Died: January 27, 1990
Place of birth: 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".
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Filmography
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6.8
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
19477.0
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1946
6.6
Strike Up the Band
1940
6.9
Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939
7.8
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
7.1
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939
6.3
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
1939
6.5
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
1938
5.3
Tarnished Angel
1938
5.8
Crime Ring
1938
6.0
City Streets
1938
6.3
The Women Men Marry
1937
7.3
The Soldier and the Lady
1937
6.5
Jim Hanvey, Detective
1937
6.7
Stowaway
1936
6.0
Winterset
1936
6.7
Show Boat
1936
6.5
The Country Doctor
1936
6.3
Klondike Annie
1936
6.0
The Keeper of the Bees
1935
6.8
The Girl from 10th Avenue
1935
7.5
Bride of Frankenstein
1935
8.0
Carnival
1935
10.0
Rendezvous at Midnight
1935
6.0
A Shot in the Dark
1935
9.0
Helldorado
1935
3.0
A Girl of the Limberlost
1934
5.0
Dr. Monica
1934
3.3
Unknown Blonde
1934
6.7
Riptide
1934
6.8
Man's Castle
1933
6.3
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
1933
5.6
Night Flight
1933
5.4
Torch Singer
1933
5.0
The Masquerader
1933
7.5
Strictly Personal
1933
6.7
Frisco Jenny
1933
5.4
Madame Butterfly
1932
6.3
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
19324.6
A Parisian Romance
1932
7.5
The Night of June 13
1932
6.4
Make Me a Star
1932
7.0
No Greater Love
1932
9.0
The Impatient Maiden
1932
6.2
Mata Hari
1931
5.0
Sooky
1931
3.2
Manhattan Parade
1931
6.1
Skippy
1931
10.0
Girls Demand Excitement
1931
6.0
The Great Meadow
1931
5.7
Reaching for the Moon
1930
5.2
War Nurse
1930
NR
Niagara Falls
1930
10.0
Midstream
1929
6.0
Railroadin'
1929
6.0
Small Talk
1929
10.0
Blue Skies
1929
5.3
The Divine Lady
1928
10.0
Chicago After Midnight
1928
5.8
13 Washington Square
1928
6.9
Quality Street
1927
3.7
Camille
1927
7.0
Padlocked
1926
8.0
The Dark Angel
1925
8.0
To the Ladies
1924
7.0
The Fire Patrol
1924
9.0
The Country Kid
1923
4.5
An Old Sweetheart of Mine
1923
7.0
The Flirt
1922
8.0
When Love Comes
1922
10.0
The March Hare
1921
8.0
The Ten Dollar Raise
1921
8.0
One Man in a Million
1921
7.0
The First Born
1921
8.0
The Forbidden Thing
1920
9.0
A City Sparrow
1920
3.7
A Light Woman
1920
5.3
The County Fair
1920
7.0
Miss Hobbs
1920
6.5
Pollyanna
1920
6.1
The Tong Man
1919
10.0
A Very Good Young Man
1919
6.3
The Man Beneath
1919
1.0
The Blinding Trail
1919
NR
The Boomerang
1919
9.0
The Turn in the Road
1919
NR
Winner Takes All
1918
6.4
Old Wives for New
1918NR
Breakers Ahead
1918
NR
One More American
1918
NR
Jules of the Strong Heart
1918
NR
The Fair Barbarian
1917
5.8
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1917
NR
Lost in Transit
19178.0
The Cook of Canyon Camp
1917
NR
The Marcellini Millions
1917
NR
His Sweetheart
1917
NR
Redeeming Love
1916
NR
Her Father's Son
1916
NR
The Tongues of Men
1916
NR
Pasquale
1916
NR
The Code of Marcia Gray
1916
6.0
Madame la Presidente
1916
NR
The Gentleman from Indiana
19159.0
As the Twig Is Bent
19158.0
The Red Virgin
1915