Helen Jerome Eddy

Helen Jerome Eddy

Date of Birth:

Feb 24, 1897

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".

filmography:

Blue Skies Blue Skies

1929

Crime Ring Crime Ring

1938

Miss Hobbs Miss Hobbs

1920

Midstream Midstream

1929

Dr. Monica Dr. Monica

1934

Pollyanna Pollyanna

1920

Mata Hari Mata Hari

1931

Carnival Carnival

1935

Camille Camille

1927

Helldorado Helldorado

1935

Show Boat Show Boat

1936

Sooky Sooky

1931

Padlocked Padlocked

1926

The Flirt The Flirt

1922

Riptide Riptide

1934

Stowaway Stowaway

1936

Skippy Skippy

1931

Small Talk Small Talk

1929

Winterset Winterset

1936

War Nurse War Nurse

1930

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