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.

Movies with Jeanne Eagels

• The Letter 1929 · ★ 5.6
• Man, Woman and Sin 1927 · ★ 4.4
• The Fires of Youth 1917 · ★ 7.0
• The World and the Woman 1916 · ★ 3.5
• A Lesson in Bridge 1914 · ★ 8.0
• The Madonna of the Slums 1919 · ★ 7.0
• Jealousy 1929 · ★ 9.0
• The Ace of Hearts 1913
• The Bride of the Sea 1913
• The Cross Bearer 1918
• Under False Colors 1917
• The House of Fear 1915