Connection
Jeanne Eagels is a american film of genre Drama directed by George Sidney released in USA on 2 august 1957 with Kim Novak
Jeanne Eagels (1957)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listReleased in USA 2 august 1957
Length 1h48
Directed by George Sidney
OriginUSA
Themes Films about television
Rating61%
Jeanne Eagels (also titled The Jeanne Eagels Story) is a 1957 American biographical film loosely based on the life of stage star Jeanne Eagels. Distributed by Columbia Pictures, the film was produced and directed by George Sidney from a screenplay by John Fante, Daniel Fuchs and Sonya Levien, based on a story by Fuchs.
The film stars Kim Novak in the title role. Jeff Chandler, Charles Drake, Agnes Moorehead, Larry Gates, Virginia Grey, Gene Lockhart and Murray Hamilton co-star.
Many aspects of Eagels' real life were omitted or largely fictionalized. Eagels' family later sued Columbia Pictures over the way Eagels was depicted in the film.
Synopsis
Jeanne Eagels is a Kansas City waitress. After losing a carnival's beauty contest, she asks carny owner Sal Satori for a job. Her dancing in a skimpy costume is accused of being obscene. Sal decides to join his brother in New York and invites Jeanne to join them in an amusement park at Coney Island.Actors
Kim Novak
(Jeanne Eagels)
Jeff Chandler
(Sal Satori)
Charles Drake
(John Donahue)
Agnes Moorehead
(Nellie Neilson)
Larry Gates
(Al Brooks)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Jeanne Eagels
There are 215 films with the same actors, 43 films with the same director, 61051 with the same cinematographic genres (including 1762 with exactly the same 2 genres than Jeanne Eagels), 539 films with the same themes, to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Jeanne Eagels, you will probably like those similar films :
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
, 2h3Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Piano
Actors Kim Novak, Tyrone Power, Victoria Shaw, James Whitmore, Shepperd Strudwick, Jack Albertson
Rating67%
Fresh out of pharmacy school, young Eddy Duchin travels to New York in the 1920s to take a job playing piano for bandleader Leo Reisman's orchestra. But upon arrival, Eddy learns there is no such job.
Pal Joey (1957)
, 1h51Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Barbara Nichols, Hank Henry, Elizabeth Patterson
Rating65%
The setting is San Francisco; Joey Evans (Frank Sinatra) is a second-rate singer, a heel known for his womanizing ways (calling women "mice"), but charming and funny. When Joey meets Linda English (Kim Novak), a naive chorus girl, he has stirrings of real feelings. However, that does not stop him from romancing a former flame and ex-stripper (Joey says, "She used to be 'Vera...with the Vanishing Veils'"), now society matron Vera Prentice-Simpson (Rita Hayworth), a wealthy, willful, and lonely widow, in order to convince her to finance his dream, "Chez Joey", a night club of his own.
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
, 2h10Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about films, Films about religion, Films about television
Actors Peter Finch, Kim Novak, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Murphy, Milton Selzer, Valentina Cortese
Rating57%
Elsa Brinkmann (Novak), is hired by producer Barney Sheean (Borgnine), who wishes to make a film about the life of 1930s movie star Lylah Clare (also Novak).
The George Raft Story (1961)
, 1h46Directed by Joseph M. Newman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about television
Actors Ray Danton, Jayne Mansfield, Julie London, Barrie Chase, Frank Gorshin, Barbara Nichols
Rating57%
La vie romancée du célèbre acteur George Raft, qui fut parfois mêlé à des affaires de gangsters.
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
, 2h2Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about television, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Jim Backus, Robert Evans, Troy Donahue
Rating70%
In the early 1900s, actor Lon Chaney (James Cagney) is working in vaudeville with his wife Cleva (Dorothy Malone). Chaney quits the show and Cleva announces that she is pregnant. Lon is happy and tells Cleva that he has been hired by the famous comedy team Kolb and Dill for an upcoming show.
This Year's Blonde (1980)
, 1h40Directed by John Erman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about television
Actors Constance Forslund, Lloyd Bridges, Norman Fell, Vic Tayback, Michael Lerner, John Marley
Rating65%
, 1h53Directed by George Clooney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Spy, Crime, Romance
Themes Spy films, Films about television, Political films
Actors Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Rutger Hauer, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Rating69%
Tired of being rejected by the beautiful women he lusts after, Chuck Barris (Rockwell) moves to Manhattan to become an NBC page with dreams of becoming famous in television but is eventually fired. He moves back to Philadelphia and becomes Dick Clark's personal assistant on American Bandstand in 1961. He writes the successful song "Palisades Park" and becomes romantically involved with a woman named Penny Pacino (Barrymore). Chuck is given permission to pitch the concept for The Dating Game at the American Broadcasting Company (ABC); he receives $7,500 to create a television pilot for the studio. However, ABC abandons The Dating Game in favor of Hootenanny.
Valentino (1951)
, 1h42Directed by Lewis Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about television
Actors Anthony Dexter, Dona Drake, Eleanor Parker, Richard Carlson, Otto Kruger, Patricia Medina
Rating58%
Rudolph Valentino arrives in America and becomes a movie star. He falls in love with an actress and dies an early death.
The Insider (1999)
, 2h37Directed by Michael Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Historical, Politic
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Medical-themed films, Politique, Films about drugs, Films about television, Political films
Actors Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Renee Olstead, Roger Bart
Rating77%
During a prologue that is not directly related to the main plot, CBS producer Lowell Bergman (Pacino) convinces the founder of Hezbollah, Sheikh Fadlallah, to grant an interview to Mike Wallace (Plummer) for 60 Minutes. While preparing for the interview, both Wallace and Bergman firmly stand their ground against the Sheikh's armed and hostile bodyguards' attempted intimidation and disruption.
Auto Focus (2003)
, 1h46Directed by Paul Schrader
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about television, Films about pornography
Actors Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Rita Wilson, Maria Bello, Ed Begley Jr., Ron Leibman
Rating65%
Disc-jockey-turned-actor Bob Crane develops a secret personal life, focusing on his relationship with John Henry Carpenter, an electronics expert involved with the nascent home video market.