Birth Day: 1897-02-24
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
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".
Credits
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As Lingerie Saleswoman (uncredited) -
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As Mrs. Brewster -
As Tearoom Hostess (uncredited) -
As Paine's Secretary (uncredited) -
As Susan, Laboratory Analyst (uncredited) -
As Miss Ferguson -
As Mrs. Lacey -
As Mrs. Thompson -
As Mrs. Myles -
As Miss North -
As Shepherd's Wife (Uncredited) -
As Mrs. Tom Ellis -
As Sister Martin -
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As Mrs. Kruikshank -
As Maria Romagna -
As Sister Annie Alden -
As Mrs. Ogden -
As Priscilla / Shorty -
As Miss Lottie Case -
As Miss Mansfield -
As Gypsy's Wife (uncredited) -
As Dr. Hodges -
As Emmy -
As Miss Fife -
As Miss Gelsey (uncredited) -
As Celeste -
As Miss Adams -
As Margaret Sinton -
As Esther -
As Mother (uncredited) -
As Miss Spaulding -
As Mrs. Lovett (uncredited) -
As Robbins -
As Worried Mother -
As Amah -
As Tessie Kearns -
As Mrs. Gilman -
As Martha Blake -
As Miss Reed -
As Cho-Cho's Mother -
As Yvonne
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As Mrs Wayne -
As Sister Genevieve -
As Delman's Secretary -
As Mrs. Wayne -
As Gazella Perkins -
As Sally Tolliver -
As Marion ("Kansas") -
As Wife / Edna Smith -
As Larry's Secretary -
As Wheezer's new mother -
As Mary Mason -
As Second Assistant Matron (episode 2) -
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As Olivetta -
As Lady Nelson -
As Mrs. Boyd -
As Camille's maid -
As Susan Throssel -
As Belle Galloway -
As Miss Bottles -
As Emma Thatcher -
As Elsie Beebe -
As Mary Ellen Anderson
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As Hazel Warren -
As Jane Coleridge -
As Laura Madison -
As Susie
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As Loey Tsing -
As Emily -
As Beulah Hackett -
As Sally Greenway -
As Joan -
As Hester Neil -
As Nancy Thing -
As Doris Kane -
As Sen Chee -
As Nora Yorke -
As Adele Grey -
As Kate Erskine -
As Norma Murdock -
As Lucia -
As Agnes Bowman -
As Frances Landcrafe -
As Antoinetta Bartelli -
As Hannah Randall -
As Maid -
As Betty Fletcher -
As Katie -
As Denise Galipaux (as Helen Eddy) -
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As Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy)
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As Rose - the Mother