Was Jeanne sexually assaulted by Chick O'Hara?
I know that Jeanne Eagels was a self destructive and talented woman but at the end of the movie when she reunited with Sal Satori and after the committee of Actors Equity had fired her, she seems that she was doing fine, happier and doing much better with Satori's carnival shows. But then there was that guy Chick O'Hara who kept following her like a stalker and he went and found her in her makeup room. At first he seem so kind and concerned but I kinda knew there was something bad and petty about his character. He sexually attacked Jeanne (including ripping her dress) and after he left, Jeanne seems distraught and tramatic about the whole situation that she overdosed with pills and alcohol again for the last time. Was Jeanne sexually assaulted by Chick O'Hara that led to her death? I think the movie was trying to show that Jeanne not only she was doing substance abuse and drinking but was abused herself by men and stalker fans like Chick O'Hara that led to her untimely death. In most cases, people used drugs and alcohol to get rid of the real pain and memories of physical and sexual abuse. I also thought she never got over that Elsie Desmond's Rain incident and for rejecting her longtime lover Sal Satori, I think guilt played a part of Jeanne's downfall.
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