Eugenia Eagles was born in Kansas City, USA, on June 26, 1890. To celebrate her 125th birthday, here’s a sneak preview from Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed.
Beauty (left) and talent: ‘The World and the Woman’, 1916 (at right)
Rising star, 1920 (left): ‘In the Night Watch’, 1921 (right)
Jeanne as Sadie Thompson in ‘Rain’, with her nemesis Reverend Davidson (left); and her lover, Sergeant O’Hara (right)
Jeanne in her last Broadway play, ‘Her Cardboard Lover’ (1927)
Jeanne’s final film, ‘Jealousy’, released shortly before her death in 1929
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