Jeanne Eagels

When Jeanne is riding down Broadway and passes the show marquee, Fanny Brice's name is misspelled 'Fannie'.

During a carnival scene at Coney Island, the music in the background is The Victory Polka which was written by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn during World War II and not yet written for a film set in the Roaring Twenties.

There are numerous historical inaccuracies, and should not be considered a true rendering of Eagels's life and career.

Richard Harrison, who later went on to star in many Hercules / Gladiator type movies, can be seen at min. 49 and min 66.

This is one of the movies included in the re-mastered box set on DVD of Kim Novak movies. Black and white, the picture and sound are first-rate.

First off, if you are a big Jeanne Eagels fan, you probably should not watch this movie. You can find a few reviews just below this one from people who were quite offended by the historical inaccuracies of the film (which are numerous) and the casting of Kim Novak.

I saw this movie when I was a kid and waited with baited breath to see it again nearly forty years later. I should have skipped it.

Young waitress from Kansas City in the early 1920s hitches up with a traveling carnival with the fervent, starry-eyed hope of breaking into show business; once in New York City, she gets herself a drama coach and lands a plum part in a Broadway show after the original actress falls ill. Fabrication of real-life Broadway and silent movie starlet Jeanne Eagels is useless as a biography but rather entertaining as a backstage melodrama.

It's almost a cruel joke casting Kim Novak, then known as an actress who couldn't or didn't act much, as Jeanne Eagels, the greatest actress of her generation. Anyone who has seen Eagels in the 1929 "The Letter" won't confuse Ms.

Although Jeanne Eagels is a fascinating film with one of two career roles for Kim Novak, the other being Vertigo, it does do some disservice in telling the story of the legendary Jeanne Eagels, Broadway star of the Twenties. The Roaring Twenties was a hard partying era, especially on women as three of the brightest stars of that era, Marilyn Miller, Helen Morgan, and Jeanne Eagels died way to soon because they indulged too much.

Supposed story of actress Jeanna Eagels. She was big star on Broadway and went on to make a few movies (silents and talkies)...

It is amazing how badly Hollywood studios recreated past eras in their biopics. This atrociously dishonest and downright stupid movie about the great Jeanne Eagels is one of the worst.