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".
Movie | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Lingerie Saleswoman (uncredited) | 1947-09-01 |
Movie | Strike Up the Band | Mrs. Brewster | 1940-09-27 |
Movie | Burn 'Em Up O'Connor | Susan, Laboratory Analyst (uncredited) | 1939-01-13 |
Movie | Good Girls Go to Paris | Tearoom Hostess (uncredited) | 1939-06-20 |
Movie | Blondie Brings Up Baby | Miss Ferguson | 1939-11-08 |
Movie | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Paine's Secretary (uncredited) | 1939-10-19 |
Movie | City Streets | Miss North | 1938-07-01 |
Movie | Tarnished Angel | Mrs. Thompson | 1938-10-28 |
Movie | Crime Ring | Mrs. Myles | 1938-07-08 |
Movie | Jim Hanvey, Detective | Mrs. Tom Ellis | 1937-04-05 |
Movie | The Women Men Marry | Sister Martin | 1937-09-10 |
Movie | The Soldier and the Lady | Shepherd's Wife (Uncredited) | 1937-04-09 |
Movie | Klondike Annie | Sister Annie Alden | 1936-02-21 |
Movie | Show Boat | 1936-05-17 | |
Movie | The Country Doctor | Mrs. Ogden | 1936-03-12 |
Movie | Winterset | Maria Romagna | 1936-12-03 |
Movie | Stowaway | Mrs. Kruikshank | 1936-12-25 |
Movie | Rendezvous at Midnight | Emmy | 1935-02-11 |
Movie | A Shot in the Dark | Miss Lottie Case | 1935-01-31 |
Movie | Carnival | Dr. Hodges | 1935-02-15 |
Movie | The Girl from 10th Avenue | Miss Mansfield | 1935-06-01 |
Movie | Bride of Frankenstein | Gypsy's Wife (uncredited) | 1935-04-20 |
Movie | The Keeper of the Bees | Priscilla / Shorty | 1935-07-14 |
Movie | Riptide | Celeste | 1934-03-29 |
Movie | Unknown Blonde | Miss Adams | 1934-04-23 |
Movie | A Girl of the Limberlost | Margaret Sinton | 1934-10-14 |
Movie | Dr. Monica | Miss Gelsey (uncredited) | 1934-06-23 |
Movie | Frisco Jenny | Amah | 1933-01-14 |
Movie | Strictly Personal | Mrs. Lovett (uncredited) | 1933-03-17 |
Movie | The Bitter Tea of General Yen | Miss Reed | 1933-01-06 |
Movie | The Masquerader | Robbins | 1933-09-03 |
Movie | Broadway Thru a Keyhole | Esther | 1933-11-02 |
Movie | Torch Singer | Miss Spaulding | 1933-09-08 |
Movie | Man's Castle | Mother | 1933-11-20 |
Movie | Night Flight | Worried Mother | 1933-10-06 |
Movie | Make Me a Star | Tessie Kearns | 1932-07-01 |
Movie | The Impatient Maiden | Mrs. Gilman | 1932-03-01 |
Movie | The Night of June 13 | Martha Blake | 1932-09-17 |
Movie | Madame Butterfly | Cho-Cho's Mother | 1932-12-30 |
Movie | A Parisian Romance | Yvonne | 1932-10-01 |
Movie | Girls Demand Excitement | Gazella Perkins | 1931-02-08 |
Movie | The Great Meadow | Sally Tolliver | 1931-01-24 |
Movie | Skippy | Mrs. Wayne | 1931-04-25 |
Movie | Manhattan Parade | Delman's Secretary | 1931-12-24 |
Movie | Mata Hari | Sister Genevieve | 1931-12-26 |
Movie | Sooky | Mrs Wayne | 1931-12-26 |
Movie | War Nurse | Marion ("Kansas") | 1930-11-22 |
Movie | Reaching for the Moon | Larry's Secretary | 1930-12-29 |
Movie | Railroadin' | 1929-06-15 | |
Movie | Blue Skies | Second Assistant Matron (episode 2) | 1929-03-16 |
Movie | Small Talk | Wheezer's new mother | 1929-05-18 |
Movie | Chicago After Midnight | Mrs. Boyd | 1928-03-04 |
Movie | The Divine Lady | Lady Nelson | 1928-12-26 |
Movie | Quality Street | Susan Throssel | 1927-11-01 |
Movie | Camille | Camille's maid | 1927-09-04 |
Movie | The Dark Angel | Miss Bottles | 1925-09-27 |
Movie | The Fire Patrol | Emma Thatcher | 1924-08-14 |
Movie | When Love Comes | Jane Coleridge | 1922-12-10 |
Movie | The First Born | Loey Tsing | 1921-01-30 |
Movie | Miss Hobbs | Beulah Hackett | 1920-05-19 |
Movie | Pollyanna | Nancy Thing | 1920-01-18 |
Movie | A Light Woman | Doris Kane | 1920-09-20 |
Movie | The County Fair | Sally Greenway | 1920-09-05 |
Movie | The Forbidden Thing | Joan | 1920-11-01 |
Movie | The Blinding Trail | Adele Grey | 1919-05-19 |
Movie | The Man Beneath | Kate Erskine | 1919-07-05 |
Movie | The Tong Man | Sen Chee | 1919-12-14 |
Movie | One More American | Lucia | 1918-02-25 |
Movie | Old Wives for New | Norma Murdock | 1918-05-18 |
Movie | The Marcellini Millions | Antoinetta Bartelli | 1917-05-14 |
Movie | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Hannah Randall | 1917-09-22 |
Movie | The Fair Barbarian | Maid | 1917-12-17 |
Movie | Madame la Presidente | Denise Galipaux (as Helen Eddy) | 1916-02-06 |
Movie | Her Father's Son | Betty Fletcher | 1916-10-12 |
Movie | As the Twig Is Bent | Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy) | 1915-11-25 |