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Jeanne Eagels (aka The Jeanne Eagels story) is a 1957
1957 in film

The year 1957 in film involved some significant events....
 fictionalised biographical film
Biographical film

File:Soviet Union-1964-stamp-Chapayev .jpgA biographical motion picture—often portmanteau biopic—is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people....
 of the life of stage star Jeanne Eagels
Jeanne Eagels

Jeanne Eagels was an actor on Broadway theatre and in several motion pictures. She was a former Ziegfeld Follies Girl who went on to greater fame on Broadway and in the emerging medium of "talkies" ....
, made by Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
. It was produced and directed by George Sidney
George Sidney

George Sidney was a Jewish United States film director and film producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
 from a screenplay
Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing works....
 by John Fante
John Fante

John Fante was an United States novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent....
, Daniel Fuchs
Daniel Fuchs

Daniel Fuchs was an American screenwriter, fiction writer, and essayist. He was born in the Lower East Side, Manhattan, but his family migrated to Williamsburg, Brooklyn while Fuchs was an infant....
 and Sonya Levien
Sonya Levien

Sonya Levien , was a Russian screenwriter. She wrote for 72 films between 1921 in film and 1962 in film. She won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 1955 in film for the film Interrupted Melody....
, based on a story by Fuchs. The music was by Mischa Bakaleinikoff, George Duning
George Duning

George Duning was an United States musician and film composer. He was born in Richmond, Indiana and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where his mentor was Mario Castelnouvo-Tedesco....
, Gil Grau and Howard Jackson, and the cinematography by Robert H. Planck. The art direction was by Ross Bellah and the costume design by Jean Louis
Jean Louis

Jean Louis was a France-born, Hollywood costume designer and an Academy Awards winner for Academy Award for Costume Design. Louis worked as head designer for Columbia Pictures from 1944 to 1960....
.

The film stars Kim Novak
Kim Novak

Kim Novak is an United States actor who was one of her nation's most popular movie stars in the late 1950s. She is best known for her performance in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo ....
 and Jeff Chandler
Jeff Chandler (actor)

Jeff Chandler was an United States film actor and singer in the 1950s....
 with Charles Drake
Charles Drake

Charles Drake was an United States actor....
, Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Moorehead

Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the t...
, Larry Gates
Larry Gates

Larry Gates was an American actor probably best known for his role as H.B. Lewis on daytime's Guiding Light and as Doc Baugh in the film version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ....
, Virginia Grey
Virginia Grey

Virginia Grey was an American actress.She was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of film director Ray Grey. One of her early babysitters was Gloria Swanson....
, Gene Lockhart
Gene Lockhart

Eugene "Gene" Lockhart was a Canada Academy Award-nominated character actor, singer, playwright and popular composer.Born in London, Ontario, Lockhart made his professional debut at the age of six when he appeared with The Kilties Band of Canada....
 and Murray Hamilton
Murray Hamilton

Murray Hamilton was an United States stage, screen, and television actor.Born in Washington, North Carolina in Beaufort County, North Carolina in eastern North Carolina, Hamilton displayed an early interest in performing during his days at Washington High School just before the outbreak of World War II....
.

Cast As appearing in screen credits (main roles identified):

A full cast and production crew list is too lengthy to include, see: IMDb profile.






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Jeanne Eagels (aka The Jeanne Eagels story) is a 1957
1957 in film

The year 1957 in film involved some significant events....
 fictionalised biographical film
Biographical film

File:Soviet Union-1964-stamp-Chapayev .jpgA biographical motion picture—often portmanteau biopic—is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people....
 of the life of stage star Jeanne Eagels
Jeanne Eagels

Jeanne Eagels was an actor on Broadway theatre and in several motion pictures. She was a former Ziegfeld Follies Girl who went on to greater fame on Broadway and in the emerging medium of "talkies" ....
, made by Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
. It was produced and directed by George Sidney
George Sidney

George Sidney was a Jewish United States film director and film producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
 from a screenplay
Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing works....
 by John Fante
John Fante

John Fante was an United States novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent....
, Daniel Fuchs
Daniel Fuchs

Daniel Fuchs was an American screenwriter, fiction writer, and essayist. He was born in the Lower East Side, Manhattan, but his family migrated to Williamsburg, Brooklyn while Fuchs was an infant....
 and Sonya Levien
Sonya Levien

Sonya Levien , was a Russian screenwriter. She wrote for 72 films between 1921 in film and 1962 in film. She won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 1955 in film for the film Interrupted Melody....
, based on a story by Fuchs. The music was by Mischa Bakaleinikoff, George Duning
George Duning

George Duning was an United States musician and film composer. He was born in Richmond, Indiana and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where his mentor was Mario Castelnouvo-Tedesco....
, Gil Grau and Howard Jackson, and the cinematography by Robert H. Planck. The art direction was by Ross Bellah and the costume design by Jean Louis
Jean Louis

Jean Louis was a France-born, Hollywood costume designer and an Academy Awards winner for Academy Award for Costume Design. Louis worked as head designer for Columbia Pictures from 1944 to 1960....
.

The film stars Kim Novak
Kim Novak

Kim Novak is an United States actor who was one of her nation's most popular movie stars in the late 1950s. She is best known for her performance in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo ....
 and Jeff Chandler
Jeff Chandler (actor)

Jeff Chandler was an United States film actor and singer in the 1950s....
 with Charles Drake
Charles Drake

Charles Drake was an United States actor....
, Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Moorehead

Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the t...
, Larry Gates
Larry Gates

Larry Gates was an American actor probably best known for his role as H.B. Lewis on daytime's Guiding Light and as Doc Baugh in the film version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ....
, Virginia Grey
Virginia Grey

Virginia Grey was an American actress.She was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of film director Ray Grey. One of her early babysitters was Gloria Swanson....
, Gene Lockhart
Gene Lockhart

Eugene "Gene" Lockhart was a Canada Academy Award-nominated character actor, singer, playwright and popular composer.Born in London, Ontario, Lockhart made his professional debut at the age of six when he appeared with The Kilties Band of Canada....
 and Murray Hamilton
Murray Hamilton

Murray Hamilton was an United States stage, screen, and television actor.Born in Washington, North Carolina in Beaufort County, North Carolina in eastern North Carolina, Hamilton displayed an early interest in performing during his days at Washington High School just before the outbreak of World War II....
.

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Cast

As appearing in screen credits (main roles identified):
Actor Role
Kim Novak
Kim Novak

Kim Novak is an United States actor who was one of her nation's most popular movie stars in the late 1950s. She is best known for her performance in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo ....
 		 Jeanne Eagels
Jeanne Eagels

Jeanne Eagels was an actor on Broadway theatre and in several motion pictures. She was a former Ziegfeld Follies Girl who went on to greater fame on Broadway and in the emerging medium of "talkies" ....
Jeff Chandler
Jeff Chandler (actor)

Jeff Chandler was an United States film actor and singer in the 1950s....
 		 Sal Satori
Charles Drake
Charles Drake

Charles Drake was an United States actor....
 		 John Donahue
Larry Gates
Larry Gates

Larry Gates was an American actor probably best known for his role as H.B. Lewis on daytime's Guiding Light and as Doc Baugh in the film version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ....
 		 Al Brooks
Virginia Grey
Virginia Grey

Virginia Grey was an American actress.She was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of film director Ray Grey. One of her early babysitters was Gloria Swanson....
 		 Elsie Desmond
Gene Lockhart
Gene Lockhart

Eugene "Gene" Lockhart was a Canada Academy Award-nominated character actor, singer, playwright and popular composer.Born in London, Ontario, Lockhart made his professional debut at the age of six when he appeared with The Kilties Band of Canada....
 		 Equity Board President
Joe De Santis
Joe De Santis

Joseph Vito DeSantis was an United States radio, television, movie and theatrical actor and sculptor....
 		 Frank Satori
Murray Hamilton
Murray Hamilton

Murray Hamilton was an United States stage, screen, and television actor.Born in Washington, North Carolina in Beaufort County, North Carolina in eastern North Carolina, Hamilton displayed an early interest in performing during his days at Washington High School just before the outbreak of World War II....
 		 Chick O'Hara


A full cast and production crew list is too lengthy to include, see: IMDb profile.

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