Hailed before the Equity Council to explain why she had deserted the road company of Her Cardboard Lover, why she had lounged in Milwaukee and then returned to Manhattan while her show went westward ...

Kim Novak beautifully portrays Jeanne Eagels, the celebrated Broadway actress who in 1922 made her name playing Sadie Thompson in Somerset Maugham's "Rain." Jeff Chandler plays her lusty love interest ...

Shooting Star (by Noel Pierce and Bernard Schoenfeld; Crosby Gaige, producer).The authors and producer of this piece emphatically deny that it is intended to present a biography of the late Jeanne ...

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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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Fahlman, Betsy, "Guy Pene du Bois: ...