Helen Jerome Eddy
Biography
Helen Jerome Eddy was an American actress who got her start as a young woman in productions staged by the Pasadena Playhouse and came to films by way of Siegmund Lubin's Philadelphia studio, which had opened a backlot near her Los Angeles neighborhood. Lubin rejected a scenario she wrote at seventeen but used her in vamp roles in lurid melodramas. Her first movie was The Discontented Man (1915), and she soon joined Paramount Pictures, where she became known as a character actress playing genteel heroines, among them Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917). Her other films included The March Hare (1921), Camille, Quality Street, The Divine Lady (1928) and Girls Demand Excitement (1931), along with Small Talk (1929), the first Our Gang talkie. She retired from the screen after making The Secret Life of Walter Mitty in 1947.
92years old at death
- Born New York City
- Died Alhambra
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 5 years1928 to 1933
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Eddy wrote a scenario at age 17, but Lubin's studio rejected it and instead decided to capitalize on her face, casting her in vamp roles in lurid melodramas.
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