 Today is the birthday of Jeanne Eagels (Eugenia, Eagles, 1890-1929). Eagels legend today rests on her performance in the stage version of W. Somerset Maugham’s Rain (1922-26), in the shadow of which all subsequent Sadie Thompsons (Gloria Swanson, Joan Crawford, Rita Hayworth) were to suffer. A native of Kansas City, Missouri Eagels joined the Dubinsky Brothers […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:19AM on June 26, 2014