Jeanne Eagels
A legendary stage actress of the 1920s--blonde, lovely, mercurial, self-destructive--Jeanne Eagels made only a few films, and only a couple of the last ones are known to survive. Even these are not readily available for viewing, but when these full-bodied melodramas are shown at archives or museums, they do give a highly vivid impression of what all the shouting was about.