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The assistant chief medical examiner who performed Eagels' autopsy concluded that she died of "alcoholic psychosis". The medical examiner stated that while Eagels had not consumed alcohol in the two days preceding her death, she had been "acting strangely" and suffering from hallucinations three or four days before she died.
Justo antes de su retorno al teatro con una nueva representación en Broadway, Eagels falleció de manera súbita el 3 de octubre de 1929 en la ciudad de Nueva York. Tenía 39 años de edad. Las causas exactas del fallecimiento no se conocen, pero las evidencias apuntaban al alcohol o la heroína.
22 de jun. de 2024 · Died: Oct. 3, 1929, New York, N.Y. (aged 39) Jeanne Eagels (born June 26, 1890, Kansas City, Mo., U.S.—died Oct. 3, 1929, New York, N.Y.) was an American actress who, through force of will and personality rather than training, forged a successful career onstage and in motion pictures.
26 de feb. de 2024 · A ctress Jeanne Eagels, restless and intemperate, died last October in Manhattan at the Park Avenue Hospital, a private psychotherapeutic sanitarium. Last week the New York Daily Mirror...
American stage actress, best known for her portrayal of Sadie Thompson, who died from a drug overdose in her early 30s. Born Jeannine Eagels in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 26, 1894; died in New York City on October 3, 1929; one of four children of Edward (a carpenter) and Julia (Sullivan) Eagels; married Morris Dubinsky (manager of a theater ...
She died in a doctor’s office at Park Avenue Hospital, in New York City, at the age of thirty-five from an overdose of sleeping pills. The family name was spelled “Eagles,” but Jeanne changed it when she became an actress.
After Jeanne Eagels' death, there arose a myth that she was a "raw," untrained talent who just happened to have the spark of genius on stage. This is demonstrably false as she had a thorough grounding in technique in her six-year apprenticeship in regional stock companies.
