Biography jeanne eagels
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EAGELS, Jeanne **
Volume III: Biographies
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Former Thanhouser star Jeanne Eagles and Jack Gilbert on location for a later film, "Man, Woman and Son."
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Thanhouser Career Synopsis: Jeanne Eagels appeared in Thanhouser films in and
Biographical Notes:The following paragraphs are based upon information derived from numerous newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and other contemporary sources. At the conclusion of the initial biography, excerpts are given from a revisionist biography written in by Edward Doherty in an article titled "Jeanne Eagels" (also published in book struktur asThe Rain Girl).
According to accounts published in her lifetime, Jeanne Eagels, christened as Jeannine, was born in Boston on June 26, , of an Irish mother and a Spanish father, Edward and Julia Sullivan Eagels. Her father's surname originally was said to have been Aguilar, equivalent to "eagle" in Spanish, and it was misspelled in Engli
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Jeanne Eagels (film)
film by George Sidney
Jeanne Eagels (also titled The Jeanne Eagels Story) is a American biographical film loosely based on the life of scen star Jeanne Eagels. Distributed bygd Columbia Pictures, the film was produced and directed by George Sidney from a screenplay bygd John Fante, Daniel Fuchs and Sonya Levien, based on a story by Fuchs.[2][3]
The film stars Kim Novak in the title role and Jeff Chandler.
Many aspects of Eagels' real life were omitted or largely fictionalized. Eagels' family later sued Columbia Pictures over the way Eagels was depicted in the film.[4]
Plot
[edit]Jeanne Eagels is a Kansas City waitress. After losing a beauty contest, she asks carnival owner Sal Satori for a job. Her dance in a skimpy costume is called obscene. Sal joins his brother in New York and invites Jeanne to join them at an amusement park on Coney Island.
Taking acting lessons instead, the ambitious Jeanne becomes the unde
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Jeanne Eagels &#; Star of stage and film.
Jeanne Eagels
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Broadway and early film star
Local Connection: Homes on Kitchawan Road (Rt. ) and Cedar Lane
Okay, first, if you are under the age of 95, you might ask, who is Jeanne Eagels?
Well, she was a big Broadway and film star in the s and ‘20s &#; in fact, one of the biggest.
And her Ossining connection is that she owned not one, but two estates here: a acre estate called “Kringejan” at Kitchawan Road, and acres of land and a house on Cedar Lane Road.
In fact, I&#;m convinced that these two photos below were taken in the gardens of Kringejan:
And here&#;s a description of her 2nd home in Ossining, on Cedar Lane Road:
In those days, Ossining was quite the place for the gentry to land &#; businessmen, bankers, writers and actors were snapping up farms and transforming them into elegant country estates. According to Eric Woodard and Tara Hanks in their biography Jeanne Eagels: A