Jealousy (1929)

Director:

Jean de Limur

Writers:

Louis Verneuil (play) and
Garrett Fort (adaptation)

Release Date:

13 September 1929 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Melodrama | Based On Play

Cast

Jeanne Eagels	...	Yvonne
Fredric March	...	Pierre
Halliwell Hobbes	...	Rigaud
Blanche Le Clair	...	Renee
Henry Daniell	...	Clement
Hilda Moore	...	Charlotte
Carlotta Coerr	...	Louise
Granville Bates	...	Lawyer
Virginia Chauvenet	...	Maid

Runtime:

66 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.20 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Photophone System)

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

Some photos still exist showing Jeanne Eagels with British actor Anthony Bushell, who originally co-starred in the role of Pierre. Bushell's voice did not register well due to the early sound technology, and he was consequently replaced by Fredric March.

Movie Connections:

Version of Deception (1946)

Eagels second talkie and last film among the "lost."

Bette Davis followed in Jeanne Eagels' footsteps, remaking her two sound films, THE LETTER and JEALOUSY, into successful vehicles for herself (the latter was renamed DECEPTION). Fredric March and Ms. Eagels appeared together in this film which is now among the lost. One still I have seen with the two leads emoting terror to some unknown adversary reveals her painfully thin arms - she was to die that same year, a victim of drug addiction. Her performance in THE LETTER - an extraordinary one and justly Oscar-nominated (she should have won)- remains our only sound document of her career.