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Jeanne Eagels

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Actress

The Resume

    (June 26, 1890-October 3, 1929)
    Born in Kansas City, Missouri
    Birth name was Amelia Jeannine Eagles
    Appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies
    Appeared on Broadway in ‘Disraeli' (1917), ‘Hamilton' (1917), ‘Daddies' (1918), ‘A Young Man's Fancy' (1919) and ‘Rain' (1922-26)
    Appeared in the films ‘The World and the Woman' (1916), ‘Under False Colors' (1917), ‘The Cross Bearer' (1918), ‘Man, Woman and Sin' (1927), ‘The Letter' (1929) and ‘Jealousy' (1929)

Why he might be annoying:

    She dropped out of school at age twelve to join a traveling stock company.
    When she came to New York City, she posed as an ingénue even though she had already married and divorced a member of the stock company.
    She changed the spelling of her last name because she thought it would look better on a marquee.
    Actors' Equity banned her from the stage for 18 months after she was a ‘no show' for several performances (1928).
    She died of a heroin overdose.

Why he might not be annoying:

    She became an addict when she was prescribed drugs to help her overcome fatigue from filming movies during the day and appearing on the stage at night.
    Louis B. Mayer was so impressed by the naturalness of her acting in the new medium of talking pictures that he made ‘The Letter' required viewing for all MGM actors.
    She received the first posthumous Oscar nomination.
    Ruth Gordon said, ‘She was the most beautiful person I ever saw, and if you saw her she was the most beautiful person you ever saw.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 16 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 11 Votes: 36.36% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 11 Votes: 36.36% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 15 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 24 Votes: 45.83% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 79 Votes: 39.24% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 39 Votes: 58.97% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 100 Votes: 52.00% Annoying