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Jeanne Eagels is a Actor American born on 26 june 1890 at Kansas City (USA)

Jeanne Eagels

Jeanne Eagels
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Birth name Eugenia Eagles
Nationality USA
Birth 26 june 1890 at Kansas City (USA)
Death 3 october 1929 (at 39 years) at New York City (USA)

Jeanne Eagels (June 26, 1890 – October 3, 1929) was an American actress on Broadway and in several motion pictures. She was a former Ziegfeld Follies Girl who went on to greater fame on Broadway and in the emerging medium of sound films. Eagels was a preeminent Broadway actress in the 1910s and 20s.

She was posthumously considered for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her 1929 role in The Letter after dying suddenly that year at the age of 39. That nomination was the first posthumous Oscar consideration for any actor, male or female.

Biography

Eagels was married twice. Her first marriage was to actor Morris Dubinsky whom she married when she was a teenager. The couple reportedly had a son who either died (causing Eagels to have a nervous breakdown) or who was given up for adoption after the couple separated. Eagels and Dubinsky eventually divorced. In August 1925, Eagels married Edward Harris "Ted" Coy, a former Yale University football star turned stockbroker. They had no children and divorced in July 1928.

Best films

The Letter
The Letter
(1929)
(Actress)

Usually with

Monta Bell
Monta Bell
(2 films)
Jean de Limur
Jean de Limur
(2 films)
John Gilbert
John Gilbert
(1 films)
Garrett Fort
Garrett Fort
(2 films)
Marc McDermott
Marc McDermott
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jeanne Eagels (6 films)

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Actress

The Letter
The Letter (1929)
, 1h5
Directed by Jean de Limur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Jeanne Eagels, O. P. Heggie, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall, Fredi Washington
Roles Leslie Crosbie
Rating66% 3.338133.338133.338133.338133.33813
Bored and lonely living on her husband's rubber plantation, Leslie Crosbie takes a lover, Geoffrey Hammond. Eventually, however, he tires of her and takes a Chinese mistress, Li-Ti. When Leslie finds out, she insists on seeing him while her husband is away. She tries to rekindle his love, but when he tells her that he prefers Li-Ti to her, she becomes enraged and shoots him repeatedly.
Under False Colors
Under False Colors (1917)

Directed by Émile Chautard
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Frederick Warde, Robert Vaughn, Jeanne Eagels
Roles Countess Olga

As described in a film magazine, John Colton (Warde) sends his son Jack (Vaughn) to Russia to compete the details of a loan to that government. While there, Jack assists the Countess Olga (Eagels), who is hounded by spies, out of the country. She sails for America and on the steamer meets Vera Ladislaus (Gregory), who is going to stay with the Coltons. The steamer is torpedoed and Vera looses her life. Olga, on arrival in New York, poses as Vera in order to obtain information in the John Colton home as she has been told that he is aiding the Russian government. After being established in the home, the kindness of the Coltons make her regret her situation. Jack's return home and the arrival of Vera's father complicates matters. However, upon Colton's statement to the assembled Russians at their headquarters that he is really helping the cause of freedom, Olga's true feelings to the Coltons, and especial Jack, are seen.
The House of Fear
The House of Fear (1915)

Directed by John Ince, Ashley Miller
Origin USA
Actors Sheldon Lewis, Jeanne Eagels, William Bechtel
Roles Grace Cramp

Grace Camp (Jeanne Eagels) and her brother Charles (Sheldon Lewis), ask Ashton Kirk to investigate strange events involving Mexicans that are occurring at their house. Kirk learns from information provided by an agent in Mexico that their father had been an engraver who made forged currency plates when in need of money. The sibling's father had forged currency plates for a thief ((Charles Krauss) but had never delivered them. The thief's aunt, Miss Hohenlo (Ina Hammer) and her accomplices have been breaking into the father's house to try and find the engraving plates. Kirk captures the intruders and destroys the forged plates.