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Jeanne Eagels (June 26, 1890 – October 3, 1929) was an actress on Broadway and in several motion pictures.Born Amelia Jeannine Eagles in Boston, Massachusetts, her family moved to Kansas City, Missouri before she was two years old. It was there that she began her acting career, appearing in a variety of small venues at a very young age. Her talents were such that she had left Kansas City and was performing on Broadway by the time she was 17. As Jeanne Eagels, she played the lead in the William Somerset Maugham's drama Rain for a year then went on the road with the show for almost two years. Her acting career blossomed, and in 1914 she appeared in her first motion picture role. By 1916 the New York drama critics were hailing her as one of the great up and coming young stars of the silver screen. In 1916 and 1917 she made three films for Thanhouser Film Corporation.
Beset by personal problems evidenced by violent mood swings, she spent the latter half of 1920 in Europe, to rest and recuperate from the stress of her life. She seemed to be better for a time, but in the ensuing years she was in and out of hospitals and sanitariums on numerous occasions.
She had a relationship with John Gilbert, the biggest silent film star of the day, but in 1925 she married Edward Harris Coy, a former Yale University football star. The marriage was a stormy one and they divorced in 1928, at which time her personal problems became nearly impossible for theater producers to handle. Her constant lateness for performances, and a failure to appear at all, led to the Actors' Equity Association to bar her from performing for a year and a half and to impose a stiff fine. The ban did not stop her from working in film, and she was be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1929 release of The Letter. Unfortunately, she did not live long enough to find out whether or not she had won.
Jeanne Eagels died suddenly at a hospital in New York City on October 3, 1929. Three medical practitioners gave three different causes for her death, all of which related to her severe alcohol and drug abuse. In Kansas City, thousands of mourning fans were at the train station when her coffin was returned for interment in the local Calvary Cemetery.
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