Helen Jerome Eddy

Helen Jerome Eddy
Publicity photo of Helen Jerome Eddy from Stars of the Photoplay
Born	(1897-02-25)February 25, 1897 Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Died	January 27, 1990(1990-01-27) (aged 92) Alhambra, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1915–1947

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).

Biography

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 studio 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.

Career

The Turn in The Road (1919)

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".

Partial filmography

• The Gentleman from Indiana (1915)
• Madame la Presidente (1916)
• The Tongues of Men (1916)
• The Code of Marcia Gray (1916)
• Pasquale (1916)
• Her Father's Son (1916)
• Redeeming Love (1916)
• His Sweetheart (1917)
• The Wax Model (1917)
• As Men Love (1917)
• The Marcellini Millions (1917)
• The Cook of Canyon Camp (1917)
• Lost in Transit (1917)
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)
• The Fair Barbarian (1917)
• Jules of the Strong Heart (1918)
• The Spirit of '17 (1918)
• One More American (1918)
• Old Wives for New (1918)
• Breakers Ahead (1918)
• The Turn in the Road (1919)
• The Boomerang (1919)
• The Man Beneath (1919)
• A Very Good Young Man (1919)
• The Tong Man (1919)
• Pollyanna (1920)
• The County Fair (1920)
• A City Sparrow (1920)
• Miss Hobbs (1920)
• The House of Toys (1920)
• The Ten Dollar Raise (1921)
• The First Born (1921)
• The March Hare (1921)
• The Country Kid (1923)
• To the Ladies (1923)
• The Fire Patrol (1924)
• Marry Me (1925)
• The Dark Angel (1925)
• Padlocked (1926)
• Camille (1926)
• Quality Street (1927)
• Two Lovers (1928)
• The Speed Classic (1928)
• Chicago After Midnight (1928)
• Blue Skies (1929)
• Small Talk (1929)
• Railroadin' (1929)
• Midstream (1929)
• War Nurse (1930)
• Reaching for the Moon (1930)
• The Great Meadow (1930)
• Girls Demand Excitement (1931)
• Skippy (1931)
• Sooky (1931)
• Mata Hari (1931) as Sister Genevieve
• Make Me a Star (1932)
• The Night of June 13 (1932)
• Impatient Maiden (1932)
• Frisco Jenny (1932)
• Madame Butterfly (1932)
• The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
• Strictly Personal (1933)
• The Masquerader (1933)
• Torch Singer (1933)
• Night Flight (1933) as Worried Mother
• Riptide (1934)
• A Girl of the Limberlost (1934)
• A Shot in the Dark (1935)
• Keeper of the Bees (1935)
• The Country Doctor (1936)
• Winterset (1936)
• Klondike Annie (1936)
• Jim Hanvey, Detective (1937)
• Strike Up the Band (1940)

Further reading

• Pasadena, California Star-News, "Eddy House Yields Ghost", April 25, 1973, page 7
• Syracuse, New York Herald, June 27, 1935, "Theater Guide", page 14

External links

• Helen Jerome Eddy at IMDb
• Helen Jerome Eddy at Find a Grave
• Helen Jerome Eddy at Virtual History
• Stills at silenthollywood.com