Helen Jerome Eddy
Known for: Acting
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
Film
Bride of Frankenstein
Gypsy's Wife (uncredited)
1935
Film
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
1939
Film
Mata Hari
Sister Genevieve
1931
Film
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Lingerie Saleswoman (uncredited)
1947
Film
Tarnished Angel
Mrs. Thompson
1938
Film
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Miss Reed
1932
Film
Show Boat
1936
Film
Unknown Blonde
Miss Adams
1934
Film
Riptide
Celeste
1934
Film
Pasquale
Margarita
1916
Film
His Sweetheart
Trina Capino
1917
Film
City Streets
Miss North
1938
Film
Strike Up the Band
Mrs. Brewster
1940
Film
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Miss Ferguson
1939
Film
Madame Butterfly
Cho-cho San's Mother
1932
Film
Blue Skies
Second Assistant Matron (episode 2)
1929
Film
Jim Hanvey, Detective
Mrs. Tom Ellis
1937
Film
Quality Street
Susan Throssel
1927
Film
Night Flight
Worried Mother
1933
Film
Stowaway
Mrs. Kruikshank
1936
Breakers Ahead
Agnes Bowman
1918
Film
Strictly Personal
Mrs. Lovett (uncredited)
1933
Film
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Hannah Randall
1917
Film
Pollyanna
Nancy Thing
1920
Film
Frisco Jenny
Amah
1933
Film
One Man in a Million
Flora Valenzi
1921
Film
Klondike Annie
Sister Annie Alden
1936
Film
Old Wives for New
Norma Murdock
1918
Film
The Night of June 13
Martha Blake
1932
Film
The Country Doctor
Mrs. Ogden
1936
Film
Midstream
Mary Mason
1929
Film
The Soldier and the Lady
Shepherd's Wife (Uncredited)
1937
Film
Good Girls Go to Paris
Tearoom Hostess (uncredited)
1939
Film
One More American
Lucia
1918
Film
No Greater Love
Superintendent
1932
Film
Torch Singer
Miss Spaulding
1933
Film
Man's Castle
Mother (uncredited)
1933
Film
The Forbidden Thing
Joan
1920
Film
Winterset
Maria Romagna
1936
Film
The First Born
Loey Tsing
1921
Film
A Very Good Young Man
Osprey Bacchus
1919
Film
A Shot in the Dark
Miss Lottie Case
1935
Film
Skippy
Mrs. Wayne
1931
The Cook of Canyon Camp
Marie
1917
Film
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Esther
1933
Film
Reaching for the Moon
Larry's Secretary
1930
Film
Helldorado
Miss Fife
1935
Film
Make Me a Star
Tessie Kearns
1932
Film
Carnival
Dr. Hodges
1935
Film
War Nurse
Marion ("Kansas")
1930
Film
The Gentleman from Indiana
1915
Film
Niagara Falls
Wife / Edna Smith
1930
Film
Jules of the Strong Heart
Joy Farnsworth
1918
Film
The Impatient Maiden
Mrs. Gilman
1932
Film
Crime Ring
Mrs. Myles
1938
Film
The Keeper of the Bees
Priscilla / Shorty
1935
Film
Lost in Transit
Nita Lapi
1917
Film
Manhattan Parade
Delman's Secretary
1931
Film
To the Ladies
Elsie Beebe
1924
Film
The Tong Man
Sen Chee
1919
Film
The Man Beneath
Kate Erskine
1919
Film
The Ten Dollar Raise
Emily
1921
Film
The Country Kid
Hazel Warren
1923
Film
Railroadin'
1929
Film
The Great Meadow
Sally Tolliver
1931
A Parisian Romance
Yvonne
1932
Film
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Mrs. Lacey
1938
Film
Girls Demand Excitement
Gazella Perkins
1931
Film
Winner Takes All
Frances Landcrafe
1918
Film
The Girl from 10th Avenue
Miss Mansfield
1935
Film
The Tongues of Men
Winifred Leeds
1916
Film
Rendezvous at Midnight
Emmy
1935
Film
The Women Men Marry
Sister Martin
1937
Film
The Fire Patrol
Emma Thatcher
1924
Film
The Divine Lady
Lady Nelson
1928
Film
Sooky
Mrs Wayne
1931
Film
An Old Sweetheart of Mine
Mary Ellen Anderson
1923
Film
The Code of Marcia Gray
Crane's Daughter
1916
Film
Her Father's Son
Betty Fletcher
1916
Film
Dr. Monica
Miss Gelsey (uncredited)
1934
Film
The County Fair
Sally Greenway
1920
Film
The Marcellini Millions
Antoinetta Bartelli
1917
The Red Virgin
Rose - the Mother
1915
Film
The Flirt
Laura Madison
1922
Film
Padlocked
Belle Galloway
1926
Film
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
Susan, Laboratory Analyst (uncredited)
1939
Film
The Dark Angel
Miss Bottles
1925
Film
The Masquerader
Robbins
1933
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1946
Film
The Turn in the Road
Jane Barker
1919
Film
A Girl of the Limberlost
Margaret Sinton
1934
Film
Redeeming Love
Katie
1916
Film
The Boomerang
Nora Yorke
1919
Film
A City Sparrow
Hester Neil
1920
Film
The Blinding Trail
Adele Grey
1919
Film
Small Talk
Wheezer's new mother
1929
Film
Miss Hobbs
Beulah Hackett
1920
Film
Madame la Presidente
Denise Galipaux (as Helen Eddy)
1916
Film
Chicago After Midnight
Mrs. Boyd
1928
Film
The Fair Barbarian
Maid
1917
Film
Camille
Camille's maid
1927
Film
When Love Comes
Jane Coleridge
1922
As the Twig Is Bent
Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy)
1915
Film
13 Washington Square
Olivetta
1928
Film
A Light Woman
Doris Kane
1920
Film
The March Hare
Susie
1921