Helen Jerome Eddy
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".
Bride of Frankenstein
as Gypsy's Wife (uncredited)Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed....
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Paine's Secretary (uncredited)After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Lingerie Saleswoman (uncredited)Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a...
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen
as Miss ReedAn American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
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Mata Hari
as Sister GenevieveA semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of...
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Show Boat
as uncreditedDespite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into...
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Make Me a Star
as Tessie KearnsA grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and...
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Man's Castle
as Mother (uncredited)Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will...
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Strike Up the Band
as Mrs. BrewsterJimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest...
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Winterset
as Maria RomagnaA man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly...
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The Keeper of the Bees
as Priscilla / ShortyA severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes...
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The Divine Lady
as Lady NelsonLady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.
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Blondie Brings Up Baby
as Miss FergusonBaby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during...
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as Hannah RandallBehind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths,...
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Reaching for the Moon
as Larry's SecretaryWall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows...
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Stowaway
as Mrs. KruikshankChin-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. She falls...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
as Mrs. LaceyIn this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he...
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Tarnished Angel
as Mrs. ThompsonA showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony...
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Madame Butterfly
as Cho-Cho's MotherPinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his...
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A Shot in the Dark
as Miss Lottie CaseAn amateur sleuth solves three murders at his son's New England college.
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Torch Singer
as Miss SpauldingWhen she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption...
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Pollyanna
as Nancy ThingWhen Pollyanna is orphaned, she's sent to live with her crotchety Aunt Polly. Pollyanna...
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The Soldier and the Lady
as Shepherd's Wife (Uncredited)In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles...
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Small Talk
as Wheezer's new motherThe gang are all orphans, hoping to be adopted by nice families where "spinach is not on the...
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Strictly Personal
as Mrs. Lovett (uncredited)Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a...
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Riptide
as CelesteMary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim....
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Night Flight
as Worried MotherStory of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
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Skippy
as Mrs. WayneSkippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and...
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Klondike Annie
as Sister Annie AldenA San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
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Old Wives for New
as Norma MurdockCharles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest...
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The Tong Man
as Sen CheeAn opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.
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The Impatient Maiden
as Mrs. GilmanA maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
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Broadway Thru a Keyhole
as EstherRacketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway...
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Good Girls Go to Paris
as Tearoom Hostess (uncredited)Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English...
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13 Washington Square
as OlivettaIn this comedy, a wealthy matron is terribly upset when she learns that her socialite son is...
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The Country Doctor
as Mrs. OgdenA doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he...
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Frisco Jenny
as AmahJenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906)....
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Girls Demand Excitement
as Gazella PerkinsPeter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student whose dislike of women attending college...
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Crime Ring
as Mrs. MylesFake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by...
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Helldorado
as Miss FifeArthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her...
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Madame la Presidente
as Denise Galipaux (as Helen Eddy)Mademoiselle Gobette, a pretty young actress, visits the offices of the Minister of Justice,...
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Unknown Blonde
as Miss AdamsAn unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases...
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The Girl from 10th Avenue
as Miss MansfieldWhen his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and...
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The First Born
as Loey TsingLoey Tsing, the first love of Chan Wang, is sold into slavery by her father. Although Chan...
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The Women Men Marry
as Sister MartinA newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
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The Gentleman from Indiana
as uncreditedAfter a spectacular college football career, John Harkless leaves the university to pursue a...
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The Blinding Trail
as Adele GreyFlighty Helen Halverson decides that she wants to marry Big Jim McKenzie, the boss of the...
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Jim Hanvey, Detective
as Mrs. Tom EllisJim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance...
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War Nurse
as Marion ("Kansas")Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I.
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Redeeming Love
as KatieNaomi Sterling and John Bancroft are lovers. The girl loves frivolous things and Bancroft, a...
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Sooky
as Mrs WayneSkippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend, Sooky Wayne,...
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City Streets
as Miss NorthWhen her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor...
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Railroadin'
as uncreditedThe gang is playing around the railroad station, and Joe and Chubby's father, an engineer,...
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Carnival
as Dr. Hodges"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and...
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The Man Beneath
as Kate ErskineThe renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits...
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The Great Meadow
as Sally TolliverPioneers and a family man leave Virginia for Kentucky during the Revolutionary War.
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The Masquerader
as RobbinsA drug-addicted member of Parliament needs to take time off and secretly pull his life together,...
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The Flirt
as Laura MadisonTreats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged...
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Dr. Monica
as Miss Gelsey (uncredited)A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has...
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The Night of June 13
as Martha BlakeElna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow....
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The County Fair
as Sally Greenway"The County Fair" begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the...
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Quality Street
as Susan ThrosselA fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic...
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Rendezvous at Midnight
as EmmyThere are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead,...
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A Girl of the Limberlost
as Margaret SintonElnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her...
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One More American
as LuciaGeorge Beban plays feisty Italian immigrant Luigi Riccardo, the eternal thorn in the side of New...
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Manhattan Parade
as Delman's SecretaryDirector Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on...
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Her Father's Son
as Betty FletcherA Union officer exposes the several deceptions his sweetheart has been engaging in. These...
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Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
as Susan, Laboratory Analyst (uncredited)An auto mechanic suspects sabotage in a recent series of fatal racecar accidents.
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Winner Takes All
as Frances LandcrafeSaul Chadron, a brutal cattle baron, is distressed that homesteaders are intruding on his domain...
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A Light Woman
as Doris KaneYoung Doris Kane suspects that her fiance, Paul Evans, doesn't love her anymore. She finds out...
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To the Ladies
as Elsie BeebeThree clerks for the Kincaid Piano Company -- Leonard Beebe, Chester Mullin, and Tom Baker are...
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The Marcellini Millions
as Antoinetta BartelliGuido and his wife Antoinetta wind up with the estate of Leo Marcellini, a wealthy oil and wine...
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The Country Kid
as Hazel WarrenBen Applegate's father dies, leaving him and his brothers Joe and Andy orphans and having to run...
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Miss Hobbs
as Beulah HackettShe was a very modern young woman, was Miss Hobbs. Her ideas were about fifty years ahead of...
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The Dark Angel
as Miss BottlesAlan Trent (Ronald Colman), his cousin Gerald Shannon (Wyndham Standing) and neighbor Kitty Vane...
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The Fair Barbarian
as MaidAn Englishman who has made his fortune in America decides to return to England.
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Midstream
as Mary MasonFollowing a successful experimental operation to reverse age, a wealthy businessman stages his...
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Camille
as Camille's maidBased on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
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Blue Skies
as Second Assistant Matron (episode 2)Better known for her work in talkie "weepers," Helen Twelvetrees made a few preliminary...
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The Forbidden Thing
as JoanPuritanical Abel Blake is planning to marry the domestically oriented Joan when she is called...
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Niagara Falls
as Wife / Edna SmithA short drama about a married couple planning to go to Niagara Falls.
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When Love Comes
as Jane ColeridgeJane Coleridge and Peter Jamison are a pair of small town sweethearts. She's an old-fashioned...
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A City Sparrow
as Hester NeilA drama starring Ethel Clayton. Milly West (Clayton) is a dancer who has her heart bent on...
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Breakers Ahead
as Agnes BowmanAfter young Ruth Bowman's mother dies, the child is raised by Agatha Pixley, and in time, the...
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