Jeanne Eagels A Life Revealed eBook Eric Woodard Tara Hanks
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The true story is finally told about Jeanne Eagels, legendary Broadway star as Sadie Thompson in Somerset Maugham’s Rain, celebrated silent movie actress, and Academy Award-nominated superstar in The Letter. She lived a life of renown, yet her rise to fame, her romances, her triumphs, her relentless perfectionism, and her fragile health propelled her into increasingly erratic behavior and a shocking climax that stunned the entire world. Illustrated with nearly 150 rare and unseen photographs
Jeanne Eagels A Life Revealed eBook Eric Woodard Tara Hanks
Thank God Eric Woodard has seen fit to resurrect Jeanne Eagels, one of the most beautiful and fascinating of the great stage stars of the early 20th Century. Not long ago Turner Classic broadcast "The Letter," Ms. Eagels' second to last movie (her last is lost), so that we could see what she looked like and what she sounded like. Dead by its release, she was nominated for a posthumous best actress academy award for that performance, so it was nothing if not revelatory (there are a few of her silent films extant, but this is the only document of her voice).For those of us who had to rely pretty much on Kim Novak's almost entirely fictional 1957 "biopic," this book is revelatory, restoring her to her rightful place as a major actress respected throughout the English-speaking world and, most famously, the creator of Sadie Thompson (alas, she had been dead for three years when Joan Crawford filled the role the way cement fills a hole).
In the Kim Novak movie, Jeanne Eagels is a carnival hootchie cootchie dancer who by chance was able to "steal" the role of Sadie Thompson from an older actress who then committed suicide. The resulting guilt turned her to drink and drugs, which eventually combined to kill her.This book will finally put those outrageous fictions to rest. Fortunately, she can also speak for herself in "The Letter" which, compared with the Bette Davis remake a decade later, is understandably more "stagey" and, as a very early talkie, quite stilted.
Well worth reading if you want to learn about Broadway and Hollywood during the first couple of decades of the 20th century.
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Jeanne Eagels A Life Revealed eBook Eric Woodard Tara Hanks Reviews
This book deservedly won a 2015 accolade by Thomas Gladysz in Huffington Post as one of the Top Film Books of 2015. Richly researched with carefully documented sources, profusely illustrated with rare photos, and well-written in an easy to read style, the book nicely details a fairly thorough biographical profile. Each of Jeanne's plays, silent movies, and early talkie films are also aptly profiled. You come away with a feeling that you've just studied a portrait of the subject as painted by a master artist. The two authors deserve more awards for this book that fills a niche in the history of American stage and film.
For some reason, one of the most well-known and recognized stage actresses of the early 20th century only had ONE biography previous to this, and it was written not long after her death. I wanted to know more, but that bio lacked so much detail. Many of the people who knew Jeanne and might have been able to shed light on her life were still alive, yet so few of them shared information.
Our wait for a thorough, truly all-encompassing biography is over! Eric Woodard and Tara Hanks have scoured archives, libraries, and nooks and crannies to find some of the detail and the photos they've included. I was truly in awe of the depth and breadth of material here.
If you're looking for a book that will give you a full-bodied glimpse at a talented actress and oh-so-complex woman, you've come to the right place. A stunning work.
A little slow, the book couldn't keep my attention.
This book is an honest attempt to fill an enormous biographical void in gifted actress Jeanne Eagels. Though long forgotten, Jeanne Eagels was probably one of the most gifted actresses to grace the American stage and we are fortunate to see her bravura film work in THE LETTER. This was very difficult biographical study to tackle, but the authors deserve credit for their effort.
I give credit to the authors for tirelessly unearthing every interview she gave the press, but the sad fact remains she will always be an enigma. Public interviews and reviews make up the bulk of this work, and is thorough in this regard; unfortunately there is little else to rely upon in an effort to piece together the complicated and intensely private life of this most gifted woman. I commend the authors for reviving her name and hopefully a larger audience will become aware of this talented and beautiful shooting star.
Excellent & informative bio of the legendary actress. Has numerous photos as well. I should think that anyone would find this book a compelling read. Even though the actress has been gone so long, the author details her active life & career so that any person familiar with the name will find this an important book.
Eric Woodard and Tara Hanks really did a bang-up job with this book. Well-written, well-researched, great photos, even-handed and honest.
But they were torpedoed by their publisher, who did NOT EDIT IT. Or if it was edited, said editor should refund his or her fee and be drummed out of the business. The book is filled with typos (most of them obviously spell-check errors), dicey grammar and punctuation, sentences repeated within paragraphs--all of this is typical first or second draft stuff that should be caught in the editing process. This should have been and could have been a brilliant book.
I hope Woodard and Hanks can buy the rights back and find a publisher who will do their terrific work justice.
Thank God Eric Woodard has seen fit to resurrect Jeanne Eagels, one of the most beautiful and fascinating of the great stage stars of the early 20th Century. Not long ago Turner Classic broadcast "The Letter," Ms. Eagels' second to last movie (her last is lost), so that we could see what she looked like and what she sounded like. Dead by its release, she was nominated for a posthumous best actress academy award for that performance, so it was nothing if not revelatory (there are a few of her silent films extant, but this is the only document of her voice).
For those of us who had to rely pretty much on Kim Novak's almost entirely fictional 1957 "biopic," this book is revelatory, restoring her to her rightful place as a major actress respected throughout the English-speaking world and, most famously, the creator of Sadie Thompson (alas, she had been dead for three years when Joan Crawford filled the role the way cement fills a hole).
In the Kim Novak movie, Jeanne Eagels is a carnival hootchie cootchie dancer who by chance was able to "steal" the role of Sadie Thompson from an older actress who then committed suicide. The resulting guilt turned her to drink and drugs, which eventually combined to kill her.This book will finally put those outrageous fictions to rest. Fortunately, she can also speak for herself in "The Letter" which, compared with the Bette Davis remake a decade later, is understandably more "stagey" and, as a very early talkie, quite stilted.
Well worth reading if you want to learn about Broadway and Hollywood during the first couple of decades of the 20th century.
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