Winter Discovery Auction Nov 14
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/14/2013
Very Rare fountain pen signature on album page by this great character actress who died at an young age by drug overdose. Jeanne Eagels was an American actress on Broadway 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 sound films.
She was posthumously considered for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her 1929 role in The Letter after dying suddenly that year at the age of 39. That nomination was the first posthumous Oscar consideration for any actor, male or female.
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