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Birth name Virginia Louise Concepta NoonanNationality USABirth 23 october 1908 at Bayonne (
USA)
Death 18 june 1968 (at 59 years) at Galesburg (
USA)
Sally O'Neil (October 23, 1908 – June 18, 1968) was an American film actress of the 1920s. She was born as Virginia Louise Noonan, one of 11 children born to a judge in Bayonne, New Jersey. One of her sisters was actress Molly O'Day.
Convent-educated, she started her career in vaudeville, billed as "Chotsie Noonan". Known for her petite and curly brown hair. She was paired along with Constance Bennett and Joan Crawford in the MGM film Sally, Irene and Mary (1925), directed by Edmund Goulding, which brought her instant, but short-lived, fame.
She was paired with Crawford again as a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1926. Her fame began to subside after "talkies" replaced silents; she also had a problem with stage fright which didn't help either. By the late 1930s, her film career was over, but she continued on stage and toured with the USO until the 1950s.
She died of pneumonia in Galesburg, Illinois, aged 59, in 1968. Biography
Sally O'Neil (pseudonyme) débute au cinéma dans quatre films muets (dont deux courts métrages) sortis en 1925 ; l'un d'eux est Poupées de théâtre d'Edmund Goulding, avec Constance Bennett et Joan Crawford (cette dernière et elle-même figurent au nombre des treize jeunes actrices recevant le WAMPAS Baby Stars de l'année 1926).
Jusqu'en 1937, Sally O'Neil contribue en tout à quarante-cinq films (américains, sauf le dernier, irlando-britannique), majoritairement muets. Parmi eux, mentionnons aussi Le Dernier Round de (et avec) Buster Keaton (1926), Hold Everything de Roy Del Ruth (1930, avec Joe E. Brown et Winnie Lightner), ainsi que The Brat de John Ford (1931, avec Alan Dinehart et Frank Albertson).
Après son retrait de l'écran, elle joue encore au théâtre, apparaissant à Broadway (New York) dans deux pièces, en 1939-1940.
Sally O'Neil est la sœur de Molly O'Day (1911-1998), également actrice.
Elle meurt en 1968, dans sa soixantième année, de complications résultant d'une pneumonie.
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