
Helen Jerome Eddy
- Date of Birth: 1897-02-24
- Date of Death: 1990-01-27
- Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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 ... 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".

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Comedy, Drama • 1939 October

Bride of Frankenstein
Horror, Science Fiction • 1935 April

Good Girls Go to Paris
Comedy • 1939 June

The Night of June 13
Drama • 1932 September

Quality Street
Comedy • 1927 November

Man's Castle
Drama, Romance • 1933 November

Show Boat
Music, Romance, Drama, Comedy • 1936 May

Stowaway
Music, Adventure, Family • 1936 December

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance • 1947 September

The Soldier and the Lady
Adventure, History, Romance, War • 1937 April