Jeanne Eagels

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.

Filmografi

The World and the Woman1916 · Mary - A Woman of the StreetsThe Cross Bearer1918 · Liane de MerodeThe House of Fear1915 · Grace CrampUnder False Colors1917 · Countess OlgaMan, Woman and Sin1927 · Vera WorthThe Bride of the Sea1913 · The Letter1929 · Leslie CrosbieThe Madonna of the Slums1919 · The Fires of Youth1917 · Billy's SisterJealousy1929 · YvonneA Lesson in Bridge1914 · Mrs. WillisThe Ace of Hearts1913 ·