Helen Jerome Eddy
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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".
Acting
Movie
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
1939
Movie
Bride of Frankenstein
as Gypsy's Wife (uncredited)
1935
Movie
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Lingerie Saleswoman (uncredited)
1947
Movie
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
as Miss Reed
1932
Movie
Mata Hari
as Sister Genevieve
1931
Movie
Show Boat
1936
Movie
Man's Castle
as Mother (uncredited)
1933
Movie
Stowaway
as Mrs. Kruikshank
1936
Movie
Strike Up the Band
as Mrs. Brewster
1940
Movie
The Divine Lady
as Lady Nelson
1928
Movie
Skippy
as Mrs. Wayne
1931
Movie
Pollyanna
as Nancy Thing
1920
Movie
Night Flight
as Worried Mother
1933
Movie
Madame Butterfly
as Cho-Cho's Mother
1932
Movie
Frisco Jenny
as Amah
1933
Movie
Klondike Annie
as Sister Annie Alden
1936
Movie
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as Hannah Randall
1917
Movie
Winterset
as Maria Romagna
1936
Movie
Reaching for the Moon
as Larry's Secretary
1930
Movie
The Keeper of the Bees
as Priscilla / Shorty
1935
Movie
Good Girls Go to Paris
as Tearoom Hostess (uncredited)
1939
Movie
The Tong Man
as Sen Chee
1919
Movie
The Girl from 10th Avenue
as Miss Mansfield
1935
Movie
Torch Singer
as Miss Spaulding
1933