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 Miss Ferguson -
As Tearoom Hostess (uncredited) -
As Paine's Secretary (uncredited) -
As Susan, Laboratory Analyst (uncredited) -
As Mrs. Thompson -
As Miss North -
As Mrs. Lacey -
As Mrs. Myles -
As Shepherd's Wife (Uncredited) -
As Mrs. Tom Ellis -
As Sister Martin -
As Mrs. Ogden -
As Mrs. Kruikshank -
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As Maria Romagna -
As Sister Annie Alden -
As Gypsy's Wife (uncredited) -
As Miss Lottie Case -
As Miss Fife -
As Priscilla / Shorty -
As Miss Mansfield -
As Emmy -
As Dr. Hodges -
As Margaret Sinton -
As Miss Gelsey (uncredited) -
As Celeste -
As Miss Adams -
As Esther -
As Miss Spaulding -
As Mother (uncredited) -
As Worried Mother -
As Mrs. Lovett (uncredited) -
As Robbins -
As Amah -
As Mrs. Gilman -
As Martha Blake -
As Cho-Cho's Mother -
As Tessie Kearns -
As Miss Reed -
As Yvonne
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As Mrs. Wayne -
As Sally Tolliver -
As Mrs Wayne -
As Gazella Perkins -
As Sister Genevieve -
As Delman's Secretary -
As Wife / Edna Smith -
As Larry's Secretary -
As Marion ("Kansas") -
As Wheezer's new mother -
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As Second Assistant Matron (episode 2) -
As Mary Mason -
As Olivetta -
As Lady Nelson -
As Mrs. Boyd -
As Susan Throssel -
As Camille's maid -
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 Loey Tsing -
As Susie
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As Nancy Thing -
As Doris Kane -
As Sally Greenway -
As Beulah Hackett -
As Hester Neil -
As Joan -
As Kate Erskine -
As Sen Chee -
As Adele Grey -
As Lucia -
As Frances Landcrafe -
As Norma Murdock -
As Agnes Bowman -
As Antoinetta Bartelli -
As Hannah Randall -
As Maid -
As Betty Fletcher -
As Denise Galipaux (as Helen Eddy) -
As Katie -
As Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy)
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