Jeanne Eagels

Kim Novak as the famous 1920s stage star. Jeff Chandler, Agnes Moorehead. Donahue: Charles Drake. Al: Larry Gates. Elsie: Virginia Grey. Directed by George Sidney., During the 1920s, star of stage and screen Jeanne Eagels gained considerable notoriety for her tumultuous personal life and tragic death. In this highly fictionalized biopic, Kim Novak portrays the famed carnival cooch dancer’s rise and fall. Due to the rather inconsistent and unflattering portrait offered in the film, the family of Jeanne Eagels sued Columbia for a large sum, but the case was resolved before it went to court.