Personal Info
Eugenia Eagles
Jeanne Eagels
Acting
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 unreliabilit…
Filmography
Movies
Jealousy
as Yvonne
The Letter
as Leslie Crosbie
Man, Woman and Sin
as Vera Worth
The Madonna of the Slums
The Cross Bearer
as Liane de Merode
Under False Colors
as Countess Olga
The Fires of Youth
as Billy's Sister
The World and the Woman
as Mary - A Woman of the Streets
The House of Fear
as Grace Cramp
A Lesson in Bridge
as Mrs. Willis