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Auction History Result 4y826 JEANNE EAGELS style B 1/2sh 1957 art of sexy Kim Novak full-length & with Jeff Chandler! Date Sold 3/26/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Style B Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) George Sidney's Jeanne Eagels, the 1957 George Sidney romantic biography stage play acting melodrama tragedy ("Story by Daniel Fuchs"; very loosely based on the real life actress; about a woman who gives up her entire life to become a movie star, and finds that she would have much rather become a mother, but by then it is too late, and she dies quite young) starring Kim Novak (in the title role as Jeanne Eagels), Jeff Chandler, Agnes Moorehead, Charles Drake, Larry Gates, Virginia Grey, and Gene Lockhart. Of course, Jeanne Eagels was an actress from the 1910s until her passing in 1929. Her father died in 1910, leaving his widow with six children, and Jeanne quit school and went to work in a department store. She soon became a dancer and actress in a traveling company in the Midwest. She moved to New York City and became a Ziegfeld Girl, dying her hair blonde. She appeared in some plays, and then some movies in the middle 1910s. In 1922, she starred in the stage play version of Rain, and then toured with it for several years. She appeared several more movies and plays in the late 1920s. During this period, she had problems with drinking, and was disruptive on film sets, sometimes not showing up. In 1928, after she failed to appear for a play performance, she was banned from Actors Equity from appearing on the stage for 18 months, she went to Hollywood and made The Letter (in her nominated for Best Actress Academy Award role) and Jealousy. Soon after she was preparing to return to Broadway, when she passed away at the age of 39, from an overdose (a combination of alcohol, heroin, and chloral hydrate). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this poster has never been folded! Some pre-1970 half-sheet posters were folded twice horizontally at the poster exchange, while some were not. It can be difficult to find an unfolded example of many pre-1970 half-sheet posters (note that most post-1970 half-sheets were NOT folded, so they are pretty much only found unfolded, and therefore this does not apply to those half-sheets). Condition: poor. Someone painted several areas of the poster including the art of Novak at right, Chandler's eyebrows and the title area. There is light rippling and slight discoloration scattered in portions of the poster due to exposure to moisture. Please see our super-sized image to get a good sense of the condition of this item prior to placing a bid and please do not bid unless you can accept the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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