Jeanne Eagels
Acting
June 26, 1890
Died October 3, 1929 (39 years old)
12
Acting Credits
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 “...
Known For
Filmography
The Letter
1929
as Leslie Crosbie
5.6
Jealousy
1929
as Yvonne
9
Man, Woman and Sin
1927
as Vera Worth
4.4
The Madonna of the Slums
1919
7
The Cross Bearer
1918
as Liane de Merode
Under False Colors
1917
as Countess Olga
The Fires of Youth
1917
as Billy's Sister
7
The World and the Woman
1916
as Mary - A Woman of the Streets
3.5
The House of Fear
1915
as Grace Cramp
A Lesson in Bridge
1914
as Mrs. Willis
8
The Ace of Hearts
1913
The Bride of the Sea
1913