The world film encyclopedia (1933)

146 (O'NE-OWE) Biographies of the Players schools of Chicago. M. Anthony Bushell. Began her career as a singer and dancer in small Chicago theatres. After another few appearances on the stage, made her film debut in 1929 in Educational Comedies. Also Played in : Peach 0' Reno (Radio), Follow Thru (Para). O'NEIL, Nance. B. Oakland, Cal. October 8, 1874, M. Alfred Hickman; he d. 1932. Has twenty-five years' stage experience to her credit, and during the course of her career has travelled throughout the world. Made her theatrical debut at San Francisco, 1893. Added considerably to her reputation by her fine work in talking pictures. Played in : Resurreciion (U.A.), The Rogue Song (M.G.M.), The High Road (M.G.M.), The Queen's Husband (Radio), The Gay Nineties (M.G.M.), The Lady of Scandal (M.G.M.), The Singer of Seville (M.G.M.), Ladies of Leisure (Col), Eyes of the World {U. A.). Call of the Flesh (M.G.M.), A Woman of Experience (Radio), Cimarron (Radio), Their Mad Moment (Fox), Transgression (Radio), Secret Service (Radio), Westward Passage (Radio), Penalty of Fame (Univ). O'NEIL, Sally. Real name, Virginia Louise Noonan. B. Bayonne, N.J., Oct. 23, 1910. Dark brown hair, dark blue eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 2 in. Wt. 7 St. 4 lb. Ed, Notre Dame Convent, Stratton Island, N.Y.; Loretta Abbey Convent, Toronto, Canada. Went on the stage immediately after leaving school, and a j'ear later began her screen career. Her first important role was in Mike (M.G.M., 1928). Also Played in : The Auction Block (M.G.M.), The Callahans and the Miirphys (M.G.M.), Slide, Kelly. Slide (M.G.M.), Battle of the Sexes (U.A.). On With the Show (Warner), The Sophomore (Pathe), Hard Boiled (Radio), Broadway Fever (Tiffany), Girl on the Barge (Univ), Broadway Scandals (Col), Salvation Nell (Tiffanv), Hold Everything (Warner), Girl of the Port (Radio), The Brat (Fox), Murder by the Clock (Para). O'REGAN, Kathleen. Real name, Melville. B. Ireland, Nov. 11, 1904. Dark hair, brown eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 5 in. Wt. 8 St. II lb. M. Lt.-Col. K. A. Plimpton, D.S.O., April, 1926. Made her first stage appearance at Sheffield in 1921, as Paddy in Paddy the-Next-Best-Thing, subsequently appearing in London, 1925, for the first time. One of her earliest screen opportunities occurred in Juno and the Pay cock (B.f.P., 1929), in which she played Mary Boyle, her own part in the stage version. Also Played in : The Shadow Between (B.I. P.), Fires of Fate (B.I.P.) OSBORNE,, ViviENNE. B. Des Moines, U.S.A. Black hair, brown eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 4 ins. M. Francis Worthington Hines. First appeared on the stage at the age of five as a dancer. Later travelled with a number of stock companies and, in 1919, appeared in New York. Came to London, 1926, to play Aloma in the stage version of Aloma of the South Seas. Played in the silent version of Over the Hill (Fox, 1927). Also Play'Ed in : The Beloved Bachelor (Para), Husband's Holiday (Para), Two Kinds of Women (Para), Two Seconds {\Na.rner) ,F amous Ferguson Case (Warner). O'SULLIVAN, Maureen. B. Boyle, Ireland, May 17, 1911. Dark brown hair, blue e3'es. Ht. 5 ft. 3 in. Wt. 8 St. 4 lb. Ed. Dublin and London convents ; finishing school in Paris. Owes her success to the happy chance that sent Frank Borzage to a cafe in Ireland where he saw her, and decided that she was the ideal type for the little girl in Song O' My Heart (Fox, 1930). Also Play'Ed in : The Princess and the Plumber (Fox), So This is London (Fox), Just Imagine (Fox), Big Shot (Pathe), Yankee at King Arthur's Court (Fox), Skyline (Fox), Tarzan, The Ape Man (M.G.M.), The Optimist (P.D.C.), Fast Companions (Univ), The Silver Lining (Patrician), Strange Interlude (M.G.M.), Skyscraper Souls (M.G.M.), Penalty of Fame (Univ), Payment Deferred (M.G.M.), Robbers' Roost (Fox). OWEN, Catherine Dale. B. Louisville, Kentucky, July 28. Blond hair, blue eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 4I in. Wt. 8 st. 13 lb. Ed. Nashville, Tenn.; Springside School, Chestnut Hill, Pa.; Academy of Dramatic Art, New York City. Film offers came to her in plenty, but she ignored them, preferring to continue her work on the stage. Apart from this, a brief experiment she had made in motion pictures some years previously had been a failure, and left an impressive mark on her meraor\'. In time, however, the offer of a part opposite John Gilbert in His Glorious Night (IM.G.M., 1929) lured her from the stage, and began for her a second career. Was at one time referred to by Anita Loos, author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, as " the perfect blonde." Also Pl.\yed in : Forbidden Woman (Pathd), The Rogue Song (M.G.M.), Strictly