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Jim Hanvey, Detective

as Mrs. Tom Ellis

1937
A Shot in the Dark

as Miss Lottie Case

1935
The Keeper of the Bees

as Priscilla / Shorty

1935
Man's Castle

as Mother

1933
Make Me a Star

as Tessie Kearns

1932
A Parisian Romance

as Yvonne

1932
Mata Hari

as Sister Genevieve

1931
Skippy

as Mrs. Wayne

1931
Girls Demand Excitement

as Gazella Perkins

1931
Reaching for the Moon

as Larry's Secretary

1930
War Nurse

as Marion ("Kansas")

1930
Camille

as Camille's maid

1927
The Tong Man

as Sen Chee

1919
Helen Jerome Eddy Helen Jerome Eddy

Birthday

1897-02-25

Place of Birth

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".
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