Jeanne Eagels
Also Known As: Eugenia Eagles
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: June 26, 1890
Age: 134 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 03, 1929
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The Ace of Hearts
Overview: A drama of barracks life. An officer is asleep when a mischievous girl slips a card in his unbuttoned coat collar. Later, the officer plays cards with his fellows. The card works out at his wrist and he is denounced as a cheater. The officer is court-martialed and dismissed out of hand. Later, he appeals to the major, commanding for reinstatement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-09
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The Bride of the Sea
Overview: A young woman, "The Bride of the Sea," is forced into a marriage she doesn't want and then faces a tragic fate at sea, potentially becoming a mermaid.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-28
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A Lesson in Bridge
Overview: The fascinating game of bridge has completely ensnared Mrs. Willis, the pretty young wife of a Wall Street clerk, and money that should have been spent to pay household bills is squandered on cards.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-04
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The Cross Bearer
Overview: Cardinal Mercier protects the altar of his church from desecration when German forces invade the Belgian city of Louvain during World War I. Although the soldiers commit widespread atrocities, the cardinal does his best to protect the townspeople.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-01
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The Madonna of the Slums
Overview: A rich artist has never completed a master painting because he could not find a model for the face, sees the wife of a man in hard luck begging on the street so she can buy milk for her baby, and the artist secures just what he desired.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-05
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Under False Colors
Overview: A young Russian woman escapes persecution in her country and makes her way to the United States. Shortly after her arrival she meets an American millionaire, John Colton.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-23
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The Letter
Overview: A planter's wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-17
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Man, Woman and Sin
Overview: A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy himself and his mother a house. He lands a position in a newspaper office and falls in love with the beautiful society editor, who is secretly having an affair with the married managing editor. She returns the young man's affections in order to make her lover jealous, but finds herself falling for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-19
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The Fires of Youth
Overview: The Thanhouser Co. has reissued a number of its surviving films on video. FIRES OF YOUTH existed at around 52 minutes in its original release. A shortened version running just over 31 minutes has survived at the George Eastman House and has now been released by Thanhouser. Jeanne Eagels does well as the neglected young daughter in a factory town. She appears in 22 scenes and delivers a sensitive performance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-16
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The World and the Woman
Overview: In "The World and the Woman", Jeanne Eagels plays Mary, a prostitute (which is implied by her walking the streets and being hassled by policemen) who reluctantly takes a better position at a country lodge as a maid. In this woodland community, she attends church and the path to Salvation becomes clear to her. Through Mary's faith, the injured folk of the countryside are healed. However, her old employer, whose lustful advances she'd previously spurned, still has designs on her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-18
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The House of Fear
Overview: On the advice of his friend Pendleton, Ashton Kirk, a scholar and amateur detective, pays a visit to a house whose occupants, Charles Cramp and his sister Grace, complain of strange happenings involving Mexicans. Discussions with Ashton's agent in Mexico reveal that Cramp's father was once an engraver, who, in desperate need of cash, had agreed to supply Alva, a notorious thief, with forged currency plates. After a change of heart, Cramp refused to deliver the plates to Alva, and now Cramp's aunt, Miss Hohenlo, has come to her brother's home to find them herself. The clever Ashton realizes that the Mexicans are cohorts of Alva's and eventually uncovers an elaborate signalling and tunnel system used by Miss Hohenlo and Alva to locate the missing plates. Deciphering a message announcing the time and place of the arrival of the Mexicans, Ashton and his aides hide themselves in the house cellar, capture the thieves and destroy the plates.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-03
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Jealousy
Overview: Yvonne, proprietor of a Paris gown shop, marries Pierre, a poor artist, concealing from him an affair she had with Rigaud, an elderly boulevardier who bought the shop for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-13
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