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Helen Jerome Eddy (February 25, 1897 – January 27, 1990) was a motion picture actress from New York City. She was noted as a character actress who played genteel heroines in films such as Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917).[1]

Helen Jerome Eddy
Eddy in 1920
Born	(1897-02-25)February 25, 1897 Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Died	January 27, 1990(1990-01-27) (aged 92) Alhambra, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1915–1947

Early years

Eddy was born in New York City on February 25, 1897,[2] 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 studio of Siegmund Lubin, which was based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In her youth they opened a backlot in her Los Angeles neighborhood.[1]

Career

Lubin's studio rejected a scenario that Eddy wrote at age 17, "but decided to capitalize on her face",[2] using her in vamp roles in "lurid melodramas".[2]

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).[1]

She made Girls Demand Excitement in 1931 and her final film, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, in 1947.[1] 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".^{[citation needed]}

Eddy thrived on playing varied characters and said, "Italian women, French, Turkish, girls of the Bowery, kitchenmaids — they're all in the day's work".[3]

Dissatisfaction with her salary led Eddy to retire from her film career.[4]

Later years and death

After she retired from films, Eddy worked in real estate in Pasadena. She acted in some local productions, including playing religious characters in plays at the Pilgrimage Theater in Hollywood Hills.[4]

Eddy died of heart failure on January 27, 1990, at the Episcopal Home in Alhambra, California, at the age of 92.[1]

Partial filmography

References

Further reading

• Pasadena, California Star-News, "Eddy House Yields Ghost", April 25, 1973, page 7
• Syracuse, New York Herald, June 27, 1935, "Theater Guide", page 14

External links

• Helen Jerome Eddy at IMDb
• Helen Jerome Eddy at Virtual History
• Stills at silenthollywood.com

На других языках

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- [en] Helen Jerome Eddy

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[es] Helen Jerome Eddy

Helen Jerome Eddy (25 de febrero de 1897 – 27 de enero de 1990) fue una actriz estadounidense que trabajó durante la era del cine mudo, nacida en la ciudad de Nueva York. Se destacó principalmente como actriz de género, tras interpretar varios papeles de superheroínas con personalidad gentil, como Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917).[1]

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[ru] Эдди, Хелен Джером

Хе́лен Джеро́м Э́дди (англ. Helen Jerome Eddy; 25 февраля 1897[1], Нью-Йорк, Нью-Йорк — 27 января 1990[1], Алхамбра, Калифорния) — американская характерная киноактриса, две трети карьеры которой пришлись на эпоху немого кино.

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