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Helen Jerome Eddy

Helen Jerome Eddy

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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 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".

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Poster for Blondie Brings Up Baby
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Blondie Brings Up Baby

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Blondie Brings Up Baby
Miss Ferguson
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As the Twig Is Bent

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As the Twig Is Bent
Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy)
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Stowaway

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Stowaway
Mrs. Kruikshank
Poster for The Bitter Tea of General Yen
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen

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The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Miss Reed
Poster for One More American
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One More American

One More American
Lucia
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The Strange Case of Dr. Meade

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The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Mrs. Lacey
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A City Sparrow

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A City Sparrow
Hester Neil
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13 Washington Square

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13 Washington Square
Olivetta
Poster for Madame la Presidente
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Madame la Presidente

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Madame la Presidente
Denise Galipaux (as Helen Eddy)
Poster for To the Ladies
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To the Ladies

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To the Ladies
Elsie Beebe

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