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

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.

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.

In 1957, a mostly fictionalized film biography entitled Jeanne Eagels was made by Columbia Pictures, starring Kim Novak as Eagels.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The ban did not stop Eagels from working in film, and she made two " talkies " for Paramount Pictures, including The Letter and Jealousy ( both released in 1929 ).

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

She told in an interview ," I wore a ruby in my navel for Jeanne Eagels and they had to glue it in every time.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

* The Letter ( 1929 film ), directed by Jean de Limur starring Jeanne Eagels, adapted from the Somerset Maugham play

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

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

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

Eagels with George Arliss in Hamilton ( c. 1917 )

Born into an old, wealthy equestrian branch of the Plebeian Octavii family, Augustus was adopted posthumously by his maternal great-uncle Gaius Julius Caesar in 44 BC following Caesar's assassination.

Ampère's final work, published posthumously, was Essai sur la philosophie des sciences, ou exposition analytique d ' une classification naturelle de toutes les connaissances humaines (" Essay on the philosophy of science or analytical exposition on the natural classification of human knowledge ").

Alfonso was born in Madrid, posthumously born son of Alfonso XII of Spain, and became King of Spain upon his birth.

He was posthumously awarded Pakistan's highest military award Nishan-e-Haider ( Sign of the Lion ) for his act of bravery.

Massoud was posthumously named " National Hero " by the order of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

He was posthumously awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun in 1999.

Other well-known Berg compositions include the Lyric Suite ( 1926 ), which was later shown to employ elaborate cyphers to document a secret love affair ; the extraordinarily elaborate post-Mahlerian Three Pieces for Orchestra ( completed in 1915 but not performed until after Wozzeck ); and the Chamber Concerto ( Kammerkonzert, 1923 – 25 ) for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments: this latter is written so conscientiously that Pierre Boulez has called it " Berg's strictest composition " and it, too, is permeated by cyphers and posthumously disclosed hidden programs.

: Two Hebrew volumes were published during his lifetime by Soncino Press, and the third Hebrew volume was published posthumously by JTS Press in the 1990s.

A great deal of her work, including Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously.

A final folktale, Wag by Wall, was published posthumously by The Horn Book in 1944.

Haley was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

In his posthumously published 1981 book The Anglo-American Establishment, Georgetown University history professor Carroll Quigley explained that the Balfour Declaration was actually drafted by Lord Alfred Milner.

Seki's discovery was posthumously published in 1712 in his work Katsuyo Sampo ; Bernoulli's, also posthumously, in his Ars Conjectandi of 1713.

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

* 2008: Although confirmed before his death in June 2008, an honorary degree was posthumously conferred upon Diddley by the University of Florida in August 2008.

The view that there was no rigid structure is reinforced by S. T. Joshi, who stated " Lovecraft's imaginary cosmogony was never a static system but rather a sort of aesthetic construct that remained ever adaptable to its creator's developing personality and altering interests ... here was never a rigid system that might be posthumously appropriated ... he essence of the mythos lies not in a pantheon of imaginary deities nor in a cobwebby collection of forgotten tomes, but rather in a certain convincing cosmic attitude.

His paper, Theoria Interpolationis Methodo Nova Tractata, was only published posthumously in Volume 3 of his collected works.

Charlotte's first-written novel, The Professor, was published posthumously in 1857.

He attended Boston Latin School, where his name was posthumously added to its Hall of Fame, and graduated from Harvard in 1678 at age 15.

That the curve followed by a chain is not a parabola was proven by Joachim Jungius ( 1587 – 1657 ); this result was published posthumously in 1669.