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".

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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Bride of Frankenstein

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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The Bitter Tea of General Yen

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Mata Hari

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Show Boat

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Man's Castle

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Stowaway

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Strike Up the Band

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The Divine Lady

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Skippy

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Night Flight

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Madame Butterfly

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Frisco Jenny

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

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Pollyanna

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Klondike Annie

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Winterset

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Reaching for the Moon

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The Girl from 10th Avenue

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Good Girls Go to Paris

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The Tong Man

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Torch Singer

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The Keeper of the Bees

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War Nurse

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Quality Street

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Old Wives for New

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Blondie Brings Up Baby

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Railroadin'

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Small Talk

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The County Fair

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Dr. Monica

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Riptide

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13 Washington Square

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Jim Hanvey, Detective

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The Masquerader

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Make Me a Star

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A Parisian Romance

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A Shot in the Dark

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The Country Doctor

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The Night of June 13

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Manhattan Parade

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Tarnished Angel

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Broadway Thru a Keyhole

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Crime Ring

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The Man Beneath

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Burn 'Em Up O'Connor

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The Soldier and the Lady

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The Strange Case of Dr. Meade

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Madame la Presidente

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A Light Woman

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A Girl of the Limberlost

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The Great Meadow

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Strictly Personal

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The Women Men Marry

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Unknown Blonde

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Camille

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The Blinding Trail

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Padlocked

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Sooky

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As the Twig Is Bent

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One More American

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A City Sparrow

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To the Ladies

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Helldorado

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Redeeming Love

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When Love Comes

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The Impatient Maiden

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Seven Keys to Baldpate

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The Forbidden Thing

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City Streets

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The Fair Barbarian

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The Fire Patrol

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Girls Demand Excitement

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Rendezvous at Midnight

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Breakers Ahead

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The Dark Angel

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The Gentleman from Indiana

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Niagara Falls

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Carnival

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Chicago After Midnight

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Blue Skies

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The Country Kid

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Winner Takes All

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The First Born

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Midstream

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Miss Hobbs

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The Marcellini Millions

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Her Father's Son

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The Flirt

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The March Hare

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An Old Sweetheart of Mine

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