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 her favorite role, that of Sadie Thompson, a free-wheeling and free-loving spirit who confronts a fire-and-brimstone preacher on a South Pacific island.

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

Actress Jeanne Eagels had played the role on stage.

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

Eagels with George Arliss in Hamilton ( c. 1917 )

Director Sam Forrest was replaced by George Abbott at the request of Jeanne Eagels ( Roxie Hart ); but Eagels quit the show within a few days, and Francine Larrimore replaced Eagels.

Jeanne Eagels, The Bellman, Volume 23, July 7, 1917

* Jeanne Eagels photo taken in 1917 not published until 1974 ; NYP Library collection

In 1917 he appeared in a Pathe film Under False Colors with an up and coming beauty named 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 )

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Louis Seigner, who formerly played the deluded benefactor opposite Ledoux, is the Tartuffe of the present production, which he himself directed.

Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players ( singles ) or two opposing pairs ( doubles ), who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net.

It is played by four players in two competing partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other around a table.

If two sets are played, the pieces can either go into the opponent's starting corners, or one of the players ' two sets can go into an opposite empty corner.

Kaye usually played a manic, dark-haired, fast-talking Russian in these low-budget shorts, opposite young hopefuls June Allyson or Imogene Coca.

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In 1995, Hackman played an inept Hollywood producer in Get Shorty and the villainous fast-draw champion John Herrod in The Quick and the Dead opposite Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, as well as submarine Captain Frank Ramsey in the film Crimson Tide with Denzel Washington.

He starred opposite Andrew McCarthy, another friend, in Mannequin, and in the film adaptation of Less Than Zero, where he played a drug dealer named Rip.

The characters that he played onscreen during this period ranged from a serial killer in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943, opposite Teresa Wright ) to an eager police detective in Gaslight ( 1944, with Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Angela Lansbury in her film debut ).

Also in 2004, she portrayed a rising tennis player in the Wimbledon Championships opposite Paul Bettany, who played a fading former tennis star in the romantic comedy Wimbledon.

In the early 1980s, Van Cleef appeared in a very popular series of commercials for Midas, in which he played up his gunfighter persona, playing opposite many character actors of the time, including Jack Palance.

She played Lady Macbeth on Broadway opposite Maurice Evans in a production directed by Margaret Webster that ran for 131 performances in 1941, the longest run of the play in Broadway history.

Her next release was David Dhawan's Yaraana opposite Rishi Kapoor, in which she played a dancer on the run from her abusive lover.

She also appeared in a number of films, most notably 1980's Ordinary People, in which she played a role that was the polar opposite of the television characters she had portrayed, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 1952 Lee played opposite Danny Thomas in a remake of the early Al Jolson film, The Jazz Singer.

The producer of the Australian TV series Spyforce was his mother's godfather, and Crowe at age five or six was hired for a line of dialogue in one episode, opposite series star Jack Thompson ( in 1994 Thompson played Crowe's father in The Sum of Us ).

In 1918, Gordon played Lola Pratt in the Broadway adaptation of Booth Tarkington's Seventeen opposite actor Gregory Kelly, who later acted with her in North American tours of Frank Craven's The First Year and Tarkington's Clarence and Tweedles.

Waits played the role of " The Engineer " in the film The Book of Eli, opposite Denzel Washington, which opened in January 2010.

Except for the initial serve, players must allow a ball played toward them only one bounce on their side of the table and must return it so that it bounces on the opposite side.

Hafner had played opposite Hendry as a nurse in Police Surgeon.

If O plays a corner, a perfect X player has already played the corner opposite his first and proceeds to play a 3rd corner, stopping O's 3-in-a-row and making his own fork.

Whist is played by four players, who play in two partnerships with the partners sitting opposite each other.

Dummy: In some variations of whist, a hand is turned face up and is played from by the player seated opposite.

Hauer returned to science fiction opposite Joan Chen with Salute of the Jugger ( 1990 ), in which he played a former champion in a post-apocalyptic world.

The headquarters of the Irish Rugby Football Union Leinster Branch is located opposite Donnybrook Stadium, where the professional Leinster team played their home games until recently.