Jeanne Eagels
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Aliases: Eugenia Eagles
Gender: Female
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Movie Involvements: 9
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
Born into a poor family in Kansas, Eagles ran off to join a traveling theatrical company at age 12, landed in New York, remade herself, became a chorine and a Ziegfeld Girl, studied acting and became a sought after theatrical name. As her heavy schedule – which soon included silent films – began to weigh on her, she self-medicated with pills, alcohol and possibly harder stuff. Soon, after dozens of successful roles, she became a Broadway super-star playing Sadie Thompson in Somerset Maugham’s “Rain.” As her fame increased, so did her reputation for temperamental behavior and even unreliability. She died on the night of October 3, 1929, aged 39. Her death was variously attributed to alcohol, sleeping pills and heroin.
Most Famous Work
The Letter
(1929) Leslie Crosbie
Under False Colors
(1917) Countess Olga
The House of Fear
(1915) Grace Cramp
The World and the Woman
(1916) Mary
Jealousy
(1929) Yvonne
A Lesson in Bridge
(1914) Mrs. Willis
Man, Woman and Sin
(1927) Vera Worth
The Fires of Youth
(1917) Billy's SisterActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1929 | Yvonne | |
| Leslie Crosbie | ||
| 1927 | Vera Worth | |
| 1919 | N/A | |
| 1918 | Liane de Merode | |
| 1917 | Countess Olga | |
| Billy's Sister | ||
| 1916 | Mary | |
| 1915 | Grace Cramp | |
| 1914 | Mrs. Willis | |
| 1913 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
