Helen Jerome Eddy
Born February 24, 1897 (Age: 129)
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New York City, New York, USA
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".
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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Filmography
Madame Butterfly
1932
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as Cho-Cho's Mother
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Age: 35
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932
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as Miss Reed
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Age: 35
No Image
A Parisian Romance
1932
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as Yvonne
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Age: 35
The Night of June 13
1932
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as Martha Blake
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Age: 35
Make Me a Star
1932
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as Tessie Kearns
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Age: 35
No Greater Love
1932
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as Superintendent
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Age: 35
The Impatient Maiden
1932
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as Mrs. Gilman
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Age: 35
Mata Hari
1931
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as Sister Genevieve
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Age: 34
Sooky
1931
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as Mrs Wayne
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Age: 34
The Ten Dollar Raise
1921
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as Emily
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Age: 24
One Man in a Million
1921
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as Flora Valenzi
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Age: 23
Breakers Ahead
1918
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as Agnes Bowman
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Age: 21
One More American
1918
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as Lucia
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Age: 21
Jules of the Strong Heart
1918
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as Joy Farnsworth
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Age: 20
No Image
The Red Virgin
1915
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as Rose - the Mother
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Age: 18