Helen Jerome Eddy

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).

She was raised in Los Angeles, California. As a youth Miss Eddy acted in productions put on by the Pasadena Playhouse. Helen became interested in films through the studios of Siegmund Lubin, which was based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In her youth they opened a lot in her Los Angeles neighborhood.

Film career

Miss Eddy's first movie was "The Discontented Man" (1915). Soon she left Lubin and joined Paramount Pictures. At this time she began to play roles for which she is remembered. Other films in which the actress participated include "The March Hare" (1921), "The Dark Angel" (1925), "Camille" (1927), "Quality Street (1927)", "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."

Helen Jerome Eddy died of heart failure in 1990 in Alhambra, California at the age of 92. She left no survivors.

References

*New York Times, "Helen Jerome Eddy", February 2, 1990, Page D18.
*Pasadena, California Star-News, "Eddy House Yields Ghost",April 25, 1973, Page 7.
*Syracuse, New York Herald, June 27, 1935, "Theater Guide", Page 14.

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