At this hangout of the wealthy elite, George Gershwin often played impromptu piano for wealthy guests such as Reggie Vanderbilt, Harry Payne Whitney, or Walter Chrysler, and celebrities such as Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Pola Negri, Al Jolson, Jeanne Eagels, Gloria Swanson, John Gilbert, Clara Bow, Hope Hampton, Irving Berlin, John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, Leatrice Joy and Rudolph Valentino, as well as socialites such as Gloria Morgan and her sister Thelma, Viscountess Furness.

Eagels played opposite George Arliss in three successive plays in 1916 and 1917.

She played the title role in Jeanne Eagels with Jeff Chandler.

Actress Jeanne Eagels had played the role on stage.

Eagels began her acting career in Kansas City, appearing in a variety of small venues at a very young age.

After services in New York, Eagels received a second funeral service when her body was returned to Kansas City, where she was buried in Calvary Cemetery.

Eagels was posthumously nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Letter, but the Oscar went to Mary Pickford for the film Coquette.

Eagels was posthumously put " under consideration " for nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of the married woman.

Bette Davis initially turned down the script, but Warner Bros. studio production chief Hal B. Wallis convinced her she could make something special out of the character, who had been inspired by one of Davis ' idols, actress Jeanne Eagels.

Similarly, actress Kim Novak wore a ruby in her navel for the film Jeanne Eagels.

Swanson had seen Jeanne Eagels perform the role on stage twice and enjoyed it.

In 1926, Eagels was offered the part of Roxie Hart in Maurine Dallas Watkins's play Chicago, but Eagels walked out of this role during rehearsals.

His last film role was that of the Equity Board President in the 1957 film Jeanne Eagels.

A spate of newspaper-driven Hollywood scandals during the early 1920s included Taylor's murder, the Roscoe Arbuckle trial and the drug-related deaths of such stars as Olive Thomas, Wallace Reid, Barbara La Marr, and Jeanne Eagels, which prompted Hollywood studios to begin writing contracts with " morality clauses " or " moral turpitude clauses ", allowing the dismissal of contractees who breached them.

Jeanne Eagels ( June 26, 1890 – October 3, 1929 ) was an American actress on Broadway and in several motion pictures.

Jeanne Eagels was born in Kansas City, Missouri to Edward and Julia Sullivan Eagles ( 1865 – 1945 ) on June 26, 1890 of German and Irish descent.

In 1928, after failing to appear for a performance in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Eagels was banned by Actors Equity from appearing on stage for 18 months.

Just before she was to return to the Broadway stage in a new play, Eagels died suddenly upon visiting a private hospital in New York City on October 3, 1929 at the age of 39.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Lyon entered films in 1918 after a successful appearance on Broadway opposite Jeanne Eagels.

* The Letter ( 1929 ) featuring Jeanne Eagels, O. P. Heggie, Reginald Owen and Herbert Marshall.

** Jeanne Eagels, American actress ( b. 1890 )

( The others are Jeanne Eagels, James Dean, Spencer Tracy, Peter Finch, Sir Ralph Richardson, and Heath Ledger.

* October 3 – Jeanne Eagels, Ziegfeld girl and actress ( b. 1894 )

Eagels attended St. Joseph's Catholic School and Morris Public School.

Eagels was in the supporting cast of Mind The Paint Girl at the Lyceum Theatre in September 1912.

In 1925, Eagels married Edward Harris " Ted " Coy, a former Yale University football star turned stockbroker.

Eagels with George Arliss in Hamilton ( c. 1917 )

After missing some performances due to ptomaine poisoning, Eagels returned to the cast in July 1927 for an Empire Theater show.

A stringed orchestra played softly behind the potted palms, and Delphine circulated graciously among her guests, chatting airily of the forthcoming races, the latest fashions from Paris, and Louisiana politics.

In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.

I'd have been more impressed if I hadn't remembered that she'd played Hedda Gabler in her highschool dramatics course.

It was just that little accidents played into her hands.

he might be Mrs. Meeker's murderer or have played some part in her death.

In recent years Anna Xydis has played with the New York Philharmonic and at Lewisohn Stadium, but her program last night at Town Hall was the Greek-born pianist's first New York recital since 1948.

She sat down and played two slots at once, looking grim, as if bested by mechanical devices, and Owen felt sorry for the lay-sisters depending on her support.

Gershwin met with Boulanger and at her request he played ten minutes of his music.

In order to prepare the role of an important old actress, a theatre student interviews three actresses who were her pupils: an international diva ( Glòria Marc, played by Núria Espert ), a television star ( Assumpta Roca, played by Rosa Maria Sardà ) and a dubbing director ( Maria Caminal, played by Anna Lizaran ).

This education, history, and background are hinted at in the Margaret Rutherford films ( see below ), in which Miss Marple mentions her awards at marksmanship, fencing and equestrianism ( although these hints are played for comedic value ).

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

He played it over the phone, and she was offered a recording contract, five weeks before her 16th birthday.

It was even suggested by Jan Długosz that cymbals which were played in procession before her represented some pagan Lithuanian tradition.

Although they were childless, Potter played an important role in William ’ s large family, particularly enjoying her relationship with several nieces whom she helped educate and giving comfort and aid to her husband ’ s brothers and sisters.

British singer Kate Bush featured the balalaika, played by her brother Paddy Bush in two of her Top-40 singles, " Babooshka " and " Running Up That Hill ".

Thelma Barlow, who played Derek's wife Mavis, was angered by the sacking of her co-star and resigned, while the production team also lost some of its key writers when Barry Hill, Adele Rose and Julian Roach all resigned.

She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as the wife of the character played by Andy Kaufman, winning two Emmy Awards for her work.

Kane is known for her portrayal of the evil headmistress Madame Morrible in the Broadway musical Wicked, whom she played in various productions from 2005 to 2009.

Björk also made extensive use of and even played the instrument herself on the song " My Juvenile " of her 2007 album Volta.

Barrymore with Corey Feldman at the 61st Academy Awards, March 29, 1989 In her late teens, her rebelliousness played itself out on screen and in print.