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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...
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Bride of FrankensteinMovie • 1935
Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonMovie • 1939
The Secret Life of Walter MittyMovie • 1947
Mata HariMovie • 1931
The Bitter Tea of General YenMovie • 1933
Man's CastleMovie • 1933
Strike Up the BandMovie • 1940
Show BoatMovie • 1936
Night FlightMovie • 1933
StowawayMovie • 1936
The Divine LadyMovie • 1928
Madame ButterflyMovie • 1932
SkippyMovie • 1931
Frisco JennyMovie • 1933
PollyannaMovie • 1920