Helen Jerome Eddy

Known For

Acting

Born

Feb 24, 1897

Died

Jan 27, 1990

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Credits

106 titles

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

Filmography

1947

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Lingerie Saleswoman (uncredited)

Movie
1946

Seven Keys to Baldpate

Movie
1940

Strike Up the Band

Mrs. Brewster

Movie
1939

Blondie Brings Up Baby

Miss Ferguson

Movie
1939

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Paine's Secretary (uncredited)

Movie
1939

Good Girls Go to Paris

Tearoom Hostess (uncredited)

Movie
1939

Burn 'Em Up O'Connor

Susan, Laboratory Analyst (uncredited)

Movie
1938

The Strange Case of Dr. Meade

Mrs. Lacey

Movie
1938

Tarnished Angel

Mrs. Thompson

Movie
1938

Crime Ring

Mrs. Myles

Movie
1938

City Streets

Miss North

Movie
1937

The Women Men Marry

Sister Martin

Movie
1937

The Soldier and the Lady

Shepherd's Wife (Uncredited)

Movie
1937

Jim Hanvey, Detective

Mrs. Tom Ellis

Movie
1936

Stowaway

Mrs. Kruikshank

Movie
1936

Winterset

Maria Romagna

Movie
1936

Show Boat

Movie
1936

The Country Doctor

Mrs. Ogden

Movie
1936

Klondike Annie

Sister Annie Alden

Movie
1935

The Keeper of the Bees

Priscilla / Shorty

Movie
1935

The Girl from 10th Avenue

Miss Mansfield

Movie
1935

Bride of Frankenstein

Gypsy's Wife (uncredited)

Movie
1935

Carnival

Dr. Hodges

Movie
1935

Rendezvous at Midnight

Emmy

Movie
1935

A Shot in the Dark

Miss Lottie Case

Movie
1935

Helldorado

Miss Fife

Movie
1934

A Girl of the Limberlost

Margaret Sinton

Movie
1934

Dr. Monica

Miss Gelsey (uncredited)

Movie
1934

Unknown Blonde

Miss Adams

Movie
1934

Riptide

Celeste

Movie
1933

Man's Castle

Mother (uncredited)

Movie
1933

Broadway Thru a Keyhole

Esther

Movie
1933

Night Flight

Worried Mother

Movie
1933

Torch Singer

Miss Spaulding

Movie
1933

The Masquerader

Robbins

Movie
1933

Strictly Personal

Mrs. Lovett (uncredited)

Movie
1933

Frisco Jenny

Amah

Movie
1932

Madame Butterfly

Cho-cho San's Mother

Movie
1932

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

Miss Reed

Movie
1932

A Parisian Romance

Yvonne

Movie
1932

The Night of June 13

Martha Blake

Movie
1932

Make Me a Star

Tessie Kearns

Movie
1932

No Greater Love

Superintendent

Movie
1932

The Impatient Maiden

Mrs. Gilman

Movie
1931

Mata Hari

Sister Genevieve

Movie
1931

Sooky

Mrs Wayne

Movie
1931

Manhattan Parade

Delman's Secretary

Movie
1931

Skippy

Mrs. Wayne

Movie
1931

Girls Demand Excitement

Gazella Perkins

Movie
1931

The Great Meadow

Sally Tolliver

Movie