Nance O'Neil
Birthday: 1874-10-06
Place of Birth: Oakland, California, USA
Biography: Nance O'Neil, born Gertrude Lamson, was an American stage and screen actress. When she decided to become an actress, her religious father, George Lamson, an auctioneer, denounced his daughter in church for going on the stage and asked the congregation to pray for her. O'Neil's first performance in a professional production was in the role of a nun in Sarah at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco on October 16, 1893. At the height of her career, she was promoted on theatre bills and in period trade publications and newspapers as the "American Sarah Bernhardt".
Movies
The Eyes of the World
The Eyes of the World is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry King and written by B...
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Cimarron
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a ...
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The Fall of the Romanoffs
The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of cinema ...
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Ladies of Leisure
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich su...
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Seven Deadly Sins: Greed
Eve Leslie and Adam Moore become interested in the stock market. Eve decides to try to add to her fo...
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The Seventh Sin
This story of gluttony was the final installment in the seven films based on the Seven Deadly Sins. ...
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Secret Service
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a C...
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The Lady of Scandal
A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose pl...
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The Good Bad Girl
A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding youn...
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Call of the Flesh
A postulant falls in love with a flamboyant singer from a cafe next door to her convent....
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The Florodora Girl
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is ...
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Transgression
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife El...
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The Iron Woman
Steel mill owner Sarah Maitland has raised her two children, Blair and Nannie, to be honest and cari...
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His Glorious Night
Being engaged against her will with a wealthy man, Princess Orsolini (Catherine Dale Owen) is in lov...
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The Rogue Song
In czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy o...
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False Faces
The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
A French sailor, imprisoned for years on false charges of conpiring against the king, escapes and ex...
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Westward Passage
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Eu...
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A Woman of Experience
It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wan...
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The Witch
A young woman uses her hypnotic powers to destroy the potential marriage of her crush....
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Their Mad Moment
Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Em...
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The Royal Bed
The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wan...
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Resurrection
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years ...
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A Criminal at Large
At Marks Priory, Lady Lebanon is eager for her son, Lord William Lebanon, to marry Isla Crane, his c...
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Kreutzer Sonata
Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather be...
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Princess Romanoff
Princess Fedora Romanoff, a wealthy, beautiful St. Petersburg widow, is betrothed to Vladimir Boroff...
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