Review of Jeanne Eagels

This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I remembered enjoying this movie when I was young. Now I know that all I enjoyed really was the theme song. Kim Novak is gorgeous, but the acting is uniformly dreadful. The direction and editing are unbelievably bad. She is a chronic drunk and then is suddenly completing a movie with no explanation of how this could come about. She is found at the scene of a suicide, at the very moment the person jumped(!) and is questioned by police. This scene went nowhere. The matter was just dropped and never heard about again. I could go on and on, but I think these things alone are enough to stay away. It is not campy enough to be funny. Miss Novak's drunk scene is rivaled in terrible acting only by Eileen Heckart in The Bad Seed. Agnes Moorehead and Jeff Chandler turn in their usual awful performances.