Name	Jeanne Eagels (Amelia Jeannine Eagles)
Build	Average
Eye Color	Blue
Hair Color	Blonde
Date of Birth	June 26, 1894
Birthplace	Kansas city, Kansas
Star Sign	Cancer
Died	October 3, 1929 (Aged 35)
Location of Death	New York City, New York
Cause of Death	heroin overdose
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	White
Occupation	Actress
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Claim to Fame	Rain
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Trivia and Quotes

Quotes

"I`m the greatest actress in the world and the greatest failure. And nobody gives a damn."

Trivia

Her two sound films, "The Letter" and "Jealousy," were both remade with Bette Davis (the Davis version of "Jealousy" was retitled "Deception"). Davis also played a character loosely based on Eagels in her 1935 film "Dangerous.".

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Though not known to the public at the time Eagles had a long history of drug and alcohol problems. The studio heads did their best to keep this information out of the press and continually reported that her frequent trips to the sanitarium was due to a hereditary illness. When she died, her manager insisted that she had died of a stroke but the truth wasn`t discovered until many years later.

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Her Academy Award nomination for The Letter made her the first ever posthumous Oscar nominee.

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Changed the spelling of her last name when she became famous from Eagles to Eagels because she thought it would look better in lights. It is the original spelling, not the stage spelling that is engraved on her headstone in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Had an affair during the early 1920s with the young Arthur Fiedler, later the long-time music director of the famous Boston "Pops" concerts. For his part, Fiedler would always describe Eagels as the one great love of his life, and kept her autographed picture on his desk until his death.

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Best known on Broadway for her role of Sadie Thompson in "Rain."

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Her first stage experience was at age 11 playing Puck in "A Midsummer Night`s Dream."

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Married twice

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Born in Boston, Massachusetts USA

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See also Trivia Index (J) :: Quotes Index (J) :: Connections Index (J)

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• Jeanne Eagels and Edward Harris
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