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 Eddys 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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