Biographies: Jeanne Eagles - Actor

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An American actress, born Eugenia Eagles in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 26, 1890. Eagles was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Leading Actress for The Letter (1929). She was married twice and had a child. She's known for The World and the Woman (1916), Jealousy (1929) and The Fires of Youth (1917). During the peak of her success, she was addicted to drugs and alcohol, which led to her death of a heroin overdose in 1929, at the age of 39.