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".

Known For

Bride of Frankenstein

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Mata Hari

Show Boat

Tarnished Angel

Good Girls Go to Paris

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

All Movies (106)

• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty1947 · as Lingerie Saleswoman (uncredited)
• Seven Keys to Baldpate1946
• Strike Up the Band1940 · as Mrs. Brewster
• Blondie Brings Up Baby1939 · as Miss Ferguson
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington1939 · as Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
• Good Girls Go to Paris1939 · as Tearoom Hostess (uncredited)
• Burn 'Em Up O'Connor1939 · as Susan, Laboratory Analyst (uncredited)
• The Strange Case of Dr. Meade1938 · as Mrs. Lacey
• Tarnished Angel1938 · as Mrs. Thompson
• Crime Ring1938 · as Mrs. Myles
• City Streets1938 · as Miss North
• The Women Men Marry1937 · as Sister Martin
• The Soldier and the Lady1937 · as Shepherd's Wife (Uncredited)
• Jim Hanvey, Detective1937 · as Mrs. Tom Ellis
• Stowaway1936 · as Mrs. Kruikshank
• Winterset1936 · as Maria Romagna
• Show Boat1936
• The Country Doctor1936 · as Mrs. Ogden
• Klondike Annie1936 · as Sister Annie Alden
• The Keeper of the Bees1935 · as Priscilla / Shorty
• The Girl from 10th Avenue1935 · as Miss Mansfield
• Bride of Frankenstein1935 · as Gypsy's Wife (uncredited)
• Carnival1935 · as Dr. Hodges
• Rendezvous at Midnight1935 · as Emmy
• A Shot in the Dark1935 · as Miss Lottie Case
• Helldorado1935 · as Miss Fife
• A Girl of the Limberlost1934 · as Margaret Sinton
• Dr. Monica1934 · as Miss Gelsey (uncredited)
• Unknown Blonde1934 · as Miss Adams
• Riptide1934 · as Celeste
• Man's Castle1933 · as Mother (uncredited)
• Broadway Thru a Keyhole1933 · as Esther
• Night Flight1933 · as Worried Mother
• Torch Singer1933 · as Miss Spaulding
• The Masquerader1933 · as Robbins
• Strictly Personal1933 · as Mrs. Lovett (uncredited)
• Frisco Jenny1933 · as Amah
• Madame Butterfly1932 · as Cho-Cho's Mother
• The Bitter Tea of General Yen1932 · as Miss Reed
• A Parisian Romance1932 · as Yvonne
• The Night of June 131932 · as Martha Blake
• Make Me a Star1932 · as Tessie Kearns
• No Greater Love1932 · as Superintendent
• The Impatient Maiden1932 · as Mrs. Gilman
• Mata Hari1931 · as Sister Genevieve
• Sooky1931 · as Mrs Wayne
• Manhattan Parade1931 · as Delman's Secretary
• Skippy1931 · as Mrs. Wayne
• Girls Demand Excitement1931 · as Gazella Perkins
• The Great Meadow1931 · as Sally Tolliver
• Reaching for the Moon1930 · as Larry's Secretary
• War Nurse1930 · as Marion ("Kansas")
• Niagara Falls1930 · as Wife / Edna Smith
• Midstream1929 · as Mary Mason
• Railroadin'1929
• Small Talk1929 · as Wheezer's new mother
• Blue Skies1929 · as Second Assistant Matron (episode 2)
• The Divine Lady1928 · as Lady Nelson
• Chicago After Midnight1928 · as Mrs. Boyd
• 13 Washington Square1928 · as Olivetta
• Quality Street1927 · as Susan Throssel
• Camille1927 · as Camille's maid
• Padlocked1926 · as Belle Galloway
• The Dark Angel1925 · as Miss Bottles
• To the Ladies1924 · as Elsie Beebe
• The Fire Patrol1924 · as Emma Thatcher
• The Country Kid1923 · as Hazel Warren
• An Old Sweetheart of Mine1923 · as Mary Ellen Anderson
• The Flirt1922 · as Laura Madison
• When Love Comes1922 · as Jane Coleridge
• The March Hare1921 · as Susie
• The Ten Dollar Raise1921 · as Emily
• One Man in a Million1921 · as Flora Valenzi
• The First Born1921 · as Loey Tsing
• The Forbidden Thing1920 · as Joan
• A City Sparrow1920 · as Hester Neil
• A Light Woman1920 · as Doris Kane
• The County Fair1920 · as Sally Greenway
• Miss Hobbs1920 · as Beulah Hackett
• Pollyanna1920 · as Nancy Thing
• The Tong Man1919 · as Sen Chee
• A Very Good Young Man1919 · as Osprey Bacchus
• The Man Beneath1919 · as Kate Erskine
• The Blinding Trail1919 · as Adele Grey
• The Boomerang1919 · as Nora Yorke
• The Turn in the Road1919 · as Jane Barker
• Winner Takes All1918 · as Frances Landcrafe
• Old Wives for New1918 · as Norma Murdock
• Breakers Ahead1918 · as Agnes Bowman
• One More American1918 · as Lucia
• Jules of the Strong Heart1918 · as Joy Farnsworth
• The Fair Barbarian1917 · as Maid
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm1917 · as Hannah Randall
• Lost in Transit1917 · as Nita Lapi
• The Cook of Canyon Camp1917 · as Marie
• The Marcellini Millions1917 · as Antoinetta Bartelli
• His Sweetheart1917 · as Trina Capino
• Redeeming Love1916 · as Katie
• Her Father's Son1916 · as Betty Fletcher
• The Tongues of Men1916 · as Winifred Leeds
• Pasquale1916 · as Margarita
• The Code of Marcia Gray1916 · as Crane's Daughter
• Madame la Presidente1916 · as Denise Galipaux (as Helen Eddy)
• The Gentleman from Indiana1915
• As the Twig Is Bent1915 · as Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy)
• The Red Virgin1915 · as Rose - the Mother