Helen Jerome Eddy
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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".
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.07 |
| Birthday | 1897-02-24 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Helene Jerome Eddy, Helen Eddy, |
1939
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6.5/6
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6.7/23
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1938
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Madame la Presidente
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Small Talk
5.8/6
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1932
The Impatient Maiden
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
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1935
The Keeper of the Bees
6/7
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5.7/8
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1937
Jim Hanvey, Detective
5.9/4
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5/1
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1938
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1935
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5.3/3
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6/3
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The Fair Barbarian
0/0
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7/3
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6.2/5
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
5.8/17
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1928
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5.3/22
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The County Fair
4.7/6
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1940
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6.2/23
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1924
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0/0
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Rendezvous at Midnight
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1933
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5/1
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1931
Manhattan Parade
2/3
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1918
Breakers Ahead
0/0
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1938
Tarnished Angel
5.3/3
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1933
Man's Castle
6.9/32
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1930
War Nurse
5.1/7
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1939
Good Girls Go to Paris
7.1/9
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1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
7.868/1055
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1933
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
5.7/3
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1927
Quality Street
6.9/7
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1935
Bride of Frankenstein
7.498/977
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1919
The Man Beneath
6/2
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1936
Winterset
5.6/14
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1932
Make Me a Star
5.5/4
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1937
The Women Men Marry
5.5/1
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1939
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
5/2
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1918
Old Wives for New
6.6/7
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1925
The Dark Angel
0/0
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1934
Dr. Monica
4.8/6
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1947
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
6.742/126
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1915
The Gentleman from Indiana
0/0
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1934
Unknown Blonde
1/1
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1930
Niagara Falls
0/0
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1920
Pollyanna
6.5/17
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1927
Camille
1/1
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1935
Carnival
0/0
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1931
Mata Hari
6.2/53
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1937
The Soldier and the Lady
6.5/2
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1928
Chicago After Midnight
0/0
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1938
Crime Ring
4.7/3
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1929
Blue Skies
0/0
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1933
Torch Singer
5.2/8
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1933
Night Flight
5.8/19
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1919
The Blinding Trail
1/1
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1923
The Country Kid
0/0
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1918
Winner Takes All
0/0
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1921
The First Born
0/0
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1929
Midstream
0/0
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1920
Miss Hobbs
0/0
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1917
The Marcellini Millions
0/0
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1916
Her Father's Son
0/0
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1922
The Flirt
0/0
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1926
Padlocked
6/1
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1931
Sooky
1/1
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1921
The March Hare
0/0
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1923
An Old Sweetheart of Mine
0/0
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