RPAR@ ` ΓTEXT ` ╘Eagels, Jeanne1890╨1929actorBorn in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 26, 1890, Amelia Jean Eagels was educated in public and parochial schools. From an early age she took part in amateur theatricals, and after leaving school she worked at small jobs until, at fifteen, she found a spot in a traveling tent show. The next seven years were spent touring the Midwest and playing mainly melodramatic roles. Gradually she began receiving bit parts in legitimate theatrical productions. She attracted some attention in 1911 in a New York musical called Jumping Jupiter. More substantial parts came in the touring production of The Outcast in 1915╨1916, opposite George Arliss in a touring company of Disraeli and later in The Professor╒s Love Story in 1917, and in David Belasco╒s Daddies in 1918. A woman of driving ambition despite frail health, Eagels achieved fame in a single role, that of Sadie Thompson in Rain, an adaptation of a Somerset Maugham story that opened at the Maxine Elliott Theatre in November 1922 and played for four years, nearly 1,500 performances, there and on tour. During that time, in August 1925, she married Edward H. (Ted) Coy, a former Yale football star. They were divorced three years later. Her last stage role was in Her Cardboard Lover, which opened in New York in March 1927 and later went on tour. For missing several performances in Milwaukee and St. Louis she was suspended by the Actors Equity Association in April 1928. She then turned to motion pictures and vaudeville. She had earlier made Man, Woman and Sin, a 1927 silent film with John Gilbert; later she appeared in Jealousy and The Letter, both 1929. Although hampered professionally by health and lack of training and personally by unstable temperament, she was an actress of great potential power, as Rain had demonstrated. Before a second role equally suited to her came along she died in New York City on October 3, 1929, of a self-administered sedative overdose following eye surgery. >styl ` ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ !I ) !I 8 !I t !I !I ╜ !I ┼ !I ╙ !I φ !I !I !I ! 5¬ " !I û !I Ü !I ┘ !I ▐ τ !I ε !I !I !I !I [ !I r !I !I !I link ` HYPR ┘ τ
