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 ba...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947
as Lingerie Saleswoman (uncredited)
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream b...
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1946
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things ...
Strike Up the Band
1940
as Mrs. Brewster
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raisi...
Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939
as Miss Ferguson
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically co...
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
as Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new ...
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939
as Tearoom Hostess (uncredited)
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come ...
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
1939
as Susan, Laboratory Analyst (uncredited)
An auto mechanic suspects sabotage in a recent series of fatal racecar accidents.
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
1938
as Mrs. Lacey
In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up...
Tarnished Angel
1938
as Mrs. Thompson
A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.
Crime Ring
1938
as Mrs. Myles
Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.
City Streets
1938
as Miss North
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him ...
The Women Men Marry
1937
as Sister Martin
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
The Soldier and the Lady
1937
as Shepherd's Wife (Uncredited)
In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir...
Jim Hanvey, Detective
1937
as Mrs. Tom Ellis
Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they w...
Stowaway
1936
as Mrs. Kruikshank
Chin-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. She falls asleep in his car which winds up on a ship headed for ...
Winterset
1936
as Maria Romagna
A man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly executed.
Show Boat
1936
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
The Country Doctor
1936
as Mrs. Ogden
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
Klondike Annie
1936
as Sister Annie Alden
A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
The Keeper of the Bees
1935
as Priscilla / Shorty
A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man cal...
The Girl from 10th Avenue
1935
as Miss Mansfield
When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decid...
Bride of Frankenstein
1935
as Gypsy's Wife (uncredited)
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experimen...
Carnival
1935
as Dr. Hodges
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His fat...
Rendezvous at Midnight
1935
as Emmy
There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead, especially the Police Commissioner's current paramour, who ...
A Shot in the Dark
1935
as Miss Lottie Case
An amateur sleuth solves three murders at his son's New England college.
Helldorado
1935
as Miss Fife
Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her fiance, wealthy J. F. Van Avery after he helps them to repl...
A Girl of the Limberlost
1934
as Margaret Sinton
Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she ...
Dr. Monica
1934
as Miss Gelsey (uncredited)
A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.
Unknown Blonde
1934
as Miss Adams
An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
Riptide
1934
as Celeste
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer...
Man's Castle
1933
as Mother (uncredited)
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
1933
as Esther
Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a star...
Night Flight
1933
as Worried Mother
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
Torch Singer
1933
as Miss Spaulding
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, ...
The Masquerader
1933
as Robbins
A drug-addicted member of Parliament needs to take time off and secretly pull his life together, so he gets his lookalike cousin to agree to temporari...
Strictly Personal
1933
as Mrs. Lovett (uncredited)
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these wer...
Frisco Jenny
1933
as Amah
Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the ...
Madame Butterfly
1932
as Cho-Cho's Mother
Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later...
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932
as Miss Reed
An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
A Parisian Romance
1932
as Yvonne
The Baron is an aging, cynical lady's man. He has a key-chain with about 50 keys to different women' apartments in Paris. He selects one at random to ...
The Night of June 13
1932
as Martha Blake
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudi...
Make Me a Star
1932
as Tessie Kearns
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
The Impatient Maiden
1932
as Mrs. Gilman
A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
Mata Hari
1931
as Sister Genevieve
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
Sooky
1931
as Mrs Wayne
Skippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend, Sooky Wayne, who lives in Shantytown with his sickly mother. The Boo...
Manhattan Parade
1931
as Delman's Secretary
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
Skippy
1931
as Mrs. Wayne
Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogc...
Girls Demand Excitement
1931
as Gazella Perkins
Peter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student whose dislike of women attending college weakens under the amorous advances of spoiled sociali...
The Great Meadow
1931
as Sally Tolliver
Pioneers and a family man leave Virginia for Kentucky during the Revolutionary War.
Reaching for the Moon
1930
as Larry's Secretary
Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced wi...
War Nurse
1930
as Marion ("Kansas")
Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I.
Niagara Falls
1930
as Wife / Edna Smith
A short drama about a married couple planning to go to Niagara Falls.
Midstream
1929
as Mary Mason
Following a successful experimental operation to reverse age, a wealthy businessman stages his own death and assumes the identity of his nephew. His s...
Railroadin'
1929
The gang is playing around the railroad station, and Joe and Chubby's father, an engineer, lectures against the kids playing in such a dangerous area....
Small Talk
1929
as Wheezer's new mother
The gang are all orphans, hoping to be adopted by nice families where "spinach is not on the menu". Wheezer, the youngest child, gets adopted by a wea...
Blue Skies
1929
as Second Assistant Matron (episode 2)
Better known for her work in talkie "weepers," Helen Twelvetrees made a few preliminary appearances in such late silent films as Fox's Blue Skies. The...
The Divine Lady
1928
as Lady Nelson
Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.
Chicago After Midnight
1928
as Mrs. Boyd
Gangster Jim Boyd serves a 15-year prison term when Hardy, a rival crook, doublecrosses him. On his release from prison, Boyd seeks out Hardy in Chica...
13 Washington Square
1928
as Olivetta
In this comedy, a wealthy matron is terribly upset when she learns that her socialite son is planning to marry a blue collar girl.
Quality Street
1927
as Susan Throssel
A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she disguis...
Camille
1927
as Camille's maid
Based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
Padlocked
1926
as Belle Galloway
The Dark Angel
1925
as Miss Bottles
Alan Trent (Ronald Colman), his cousin Gerald Shannon (Wyndham Standing) and neighbor Kitty Vane (Vilma Bánky) have grown up together, as close playma...
To the Ladies
1924
as Elsie Beebe
Three clerks for the Kincaid Piano Company -- Leonard Beebe, Chester Mullin, and Tom Baker are in competition for a promotion to factory manager.
The Fire Patrol
1924
as Emma Thatcher
The Country Kid
1923
as Hazel Warren
Ben Applegate's father dies, leaving him and his brothers Joe and Andy orphans and having to run the family farm. Their Uncle Grimes is their legal gu...
An Old Sweetheart of Mine
1923
as Mary Ellen Anderson
A husband goes through a trunk in an attic and finds a memento that reminds him of childhood sweetheart. The pair grow up and marry, facing tribulatio...
The Flirt
1922
as Laura Madison
Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to Richard Lindley but is attracted to Val Corliss, wh...
When Love Comes
1922
as Jane Coleridge
Jane Coleridge and Peter Jamison are a pair of small town sweethearts. She's an old-fashioned girl and he's timid, but he manages to get up the nerve ...
The March Hare
1921
as Susie
Lizbeth Palmer is known as "The March Hare" among her friends, and the daughter of a Los Angeles millionaire, comes to New York with a chaperon to vis...
The First Born
1921
as Loey Tsing
Loey Tsing, the first love of Chan Wang, is sold into slavery by her father. Although Chan marries another, he still loves Loey; only the birth of a s...
The Forbidden Thing
1920
as Joan
Puritanical Abel Blake is planning to marry the domestically oriented Joan when she is called away to a neighboring fishing village to care for her si...
A City Sparrow
1920
as Hester Neil
A drama starring Ethel Clayton. Milly West (Clayton) is a dancer who has her heart bent on stardom. She has an admirer in country boy Tim Ennis (Walt...
A Light Woman
1920
as Doris Kane
Young Doris Kane suspects that her fiance, Paul Evans, doesn't love her anymore. She finds out that he is now infatuated with a "vamp", Jeanne DuPre. ...
The County Fair
1920
as Sally Greenway
"The County Fair" begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the street--unless her niece (who lives with her) marries this man...
Miss Hobbs
1920
as Beulah Hackett
She was a very modern young woman, was Miss Hobbs. Her ideas were about fifty years ahead of time. For one thing she hated men, thought them all brute...
Pollyanna
1920
as Nancy Thing
When Pollyanna is orphaned, she's sent to live with her crotchety Aunt Polly. Pollyanna discovers that many of the people in her aunt's New England ho...
The Tong Man
1919
as Sen Chee
An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.
The Man Beneath
1919
as Kate Erskine
The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland and falls in love with Kate Erskine, whose sister M...
The Blinding Trail
1919
as Adele Grey
Flighty Helen Halverson decides that she wants to marry Big Jim McKenzie, the boss of the logging camp her father owns, after he is temporarily blinde...
Winner Takes All
1918
as Frances Landcrafe
Saul Chadron, a brutal cattle baron, is distressed that homesteaders are intruding on his domain and hires outlaws to drive them away.
Old Wives for New
1918
as Norma Murdock
Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.
Breakers Ahead
1918
as Agnes Bowman
After young Ruth Bowman's mother dies, the child is raised by Agatha Pixley, and in time, the girl falls in love with Agatha's son, Eric. While Eric i...
One More American
1918
as Lucia
George Beban plays feisty Italian immigrant Luigi Riccardo, the eternal thorn in the side of New York political boss Regan (H.B. Carpenter). Fed up wi...
The Fair Barbarian
1917
as Maid
An Englishman who has made his fortune in America decides to return to England.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1917
as Hannah Randall
Behind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths, mother sends young Rebecca off to Riverboro to be raised by...
The Marcellini Millions
1917
as Antoinetta Bartelli
Guido and his wife Antoinetta wind up with the estate of Leo Marcellini, a wealthy oil and wine merchant who has died intestate. They move into the ma...
Redeeming Love
1916
as Katie
Naomi Sterling and John Bancroft are lovers. The girl loves frivolous things and Bancroft, a divinity student, finally estranges himself from her by h...
Her Father's Son
1916
as Betty Fletcher
A Union officer exposes the several deceptions his sweetheart has been engaging in. These include , spying for the Confederacy, and posing as a boy in...
Madame la Presidente
1916
as Denise Galipaux (as Helen Eddy)
Mademoiselle Gobette, a pretty young actress, visits the offices of the Minister of Justice, Cyprienne Gaudet. Simultaneously, Madame Galipaux arrives...
The Gentleman from Indiana
1915
After a spectacular college football career, John Harkless leaves the university to pursue a place in Indiana politics. He buys the failing Plattville...
As the Twig Is Bent
1915
as Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy)
L.C. Shumway has a dual role in this action-packed three-reeler. When the Booths divorce, their twin children (both played as adults by Shumway) are s...
The Red Virgin
1915
as Rose - the Mother