While most winners are alive to claim the prize, some Oscars have been awarded posthumously. So, who was the first actor to receive a nomination posthumously, and who was the first to take home the ...

Hailed before the Equity Council to explain why she had deserted the road company of Her Cardboard Lover, why she had lounged in Milwaukee and then returned to Manhattan while her show went westward ...

Kim Novak beautifully portrays Jeanne Eagels, the celebrated Broadway actress who in 1922 made her name playing Sadie Thompson in Somerset Maugham's "Rain." Jeff Chandler plays her lusty love interest ...

These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important: Drama RAIN—Jeanne Eagels rapidly making Sadie Thompson the most widely known courtesan in the world. Sex in the ...

Born into a poor family in Kansas, Eagles ran off to join a traveling theatrical company at age 12, landed in New York, remade herself, became a chorine and a Ziegfeld Girl, studied acting and became ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Shows the two women seated in front ...