Nell O'Day

Nell O'Day

Born: September 22, 1909
Died: January 3, 1989
in Prairie Hill, Washington County, Texas, USA
Nell O'Day (September 22, 1909 – January 3, 1989) was an accomplished American equestrian and B-movie actress of the 1930s and 1940s.

Movies for Nell O'Day...

Title: Studio One
Character: Clarice Morrison
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Boss of Rawhide
Title: Boss of Rawhide
Character: Mary Colby
Released: November 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Texas Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins are sent to the district of Rawhide to investigate the killings of several ranchers. Tex enters the town posing as a tramp while the other two Rangers join a troupe of itinerant minstrels.
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The Return of the Rangers
Title: The Return of the Rangers
Character: Anne Miller
Released: October 26, 1943
Type: Movie
The Texas Rangers round up rustlers by masquerading as the same. Trouble ensues when while in disguise one of the Rangers is accused of a killing.
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Thundering Trails
Title: Thundering Trails
Character: Edith Walker
Released: January 25, 1943
Type: Movie
In this western, the Three Mesquiteers team up with a Texas Ranger to round up the outlaws who forced the ranger's younger brother into becoming a criminal.
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Pirates of the Prairie
Title: Pirates of the Prairie
Character: Helen Spencer
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
In one of his better early Westerns, Tim Holt, as Deputy Marshal Larry Durant, is sent to Spencerville where a gang of vigilantes has been terrorizing the citizenry. Going undercover as a gunsmith, Larry quickly learns that the leader of the vigilantes, John Spencer (John Elliott), is an honest man who only seeks to establish law and order. The real brains behind the crimes, meanwhile, are revealed to be Spencer's brother-in-law, Lou Harmon (Roy Barcroft), and his chief henchman, Leighton (Charles King), who speculate in the coming of the railroad by forcing the townspeople to relinquish their land.
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Arizona Stage Coach
Title: Arizona Stage Coach
Character: Dorrie Willard
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
In the midst of some friendly horseplay on their "Flying R" ranch, the Range Busters, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, are sobered by the arrival of a buckboard bearing their old friend Larry Meadows and his niece Dorrie Willard. Meadows seeks their aid against a gang of outlaws terrorizing his town. Ernie Willard, Dorrie's brother, has been taken in by Tex Laughlin who is using the Willard ranch as an undercover for his real occupation as a member of a gang of outlaws led by Tim Douglas, a supposed friend of the Willards.
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There's One Born Every Minute
Title: There's One Born Every Minute
Character: Antoinette
Released: June 26, 1942
Type: Movie
A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.
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Perils of the Royal Mounted
Title: Perils of the Royal Mounted
Character: Diana Blake
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Sergeant MacLane of the Mounties investigates the disruptive activities of a bunch of troublemakers.
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The Mystery of Marie Roget
Title: The Mystery of Marie Roget
Character: Camille Roget
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.
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Stagecoach Buckaroo
Title: Stagecoach Buckaroo
Character: Molly Denton
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Saved from a lynching party by a pair of young women, an itinerant cowpuncher signs on as a stagecoach guard to protect a shipment of gold.
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Fighting Bill Fargo
Title: Fighting Bill Fargo
Character: Julie Fargo
Released: December 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown essays the title role in Universal's Fighting Bill Forgo. Returning to his home town, Bill Fargo takes over the operation of his late father's newspaper. He quickly gets swept up in political intrigue fomented by political boss Hackett (Kenneth Harlan), who has a cute habit of rubbing out any and all honest candidates for the sheriff's office.
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Arizona Cyclone
Title: Arizona Cyclone
Character: Claire Randolph
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Crenshaw and Randolph are competing freight haulers and Randolph's lead man Tom Baxter has given him an advantage....
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The Masked Rider
Title: The Masked Rider
Character: Jean Malone
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
The beautiful owner of a silver mine in Mexico asks an employee for help when bandits keep robbing her shipments.
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Title: Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Character: The Salesgirl
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beaten up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film.
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Man from Montana
Title: Man from Montana
Character: Sally Preston
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
A sheriff tries to prevent a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders.
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Rawhide Rangers
Title: Rawhide Rangers
Character: Patti McDowell
Released: July 18, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of frontier businessmen set up a protective organization for the purpose of extorting money from the local ranchers.
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Law of the Range
Title: Law of the Range
Character: Mary O'Brien
Released: June 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The Wolverine Kid kills a man and it looks like Steve Howard did it. But Steve's father recognizes the bullet as coming from the gun owned by the Kid.
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Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Title: Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Character: Edna Fielding
Released: March 21, 1941
Type: Movie
A young mining engineer sets out to catch the killers of both his brother and a beautiful young girl's father.
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Back Street
Title: Back Street
Character: Elizabeth Saxel
Released: February 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie Hurst's novel stars Margaret Sullavan as a fashion designer in love with a married banker (Charles Boyer). Directed by Robert Stevenson, the film also stars Richard Carlson, Tim Holt, Frank McHugh, Esther Dale and Cecil Cunningham.
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Buck Privates
Title: Buck Privates
Character: Camp Hostess (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.
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Pony Post
Title: Pony Post
Character: Norma Reeves
Released: December 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Atkins is the boss of one of the Pony Express relay stations. He has been causing trouble and is replaced with Cal Sheridan. Atkins now gets the Richard brothers to raid one of the relay stations and they kill Norma's father. Cal sees that the horse of one of the raiders has a broken shoe and Norma sets out to find that horse.
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Law and Order
Title: Law and Order
Character: Sally Dixon
Released: November 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Bill Ralston arrives in town planning to settle down but quickly gets caught up in the fight between the townspeople and Poe Daggett and his gang. He takes the job of town Marshal and soon brings law and order. When Daggetts men ambush him he kills Poe's brother. Poe then kills Bill's friend Brant and this leads to the showdown.
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Ragtime Cowboy Joe
Title: Ragtime Cowboy Joe
Character: Helen Osborne
Released: September 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Universal's Ragtime Cowboy Joe is a modern western with a dash of music, not unlike the standard fare at Republic Pictures. The title character is a confused cowhand played by Fuzzy Knight, while the hero is Steve (Johnny Mack Brown), an undercover detective on the prowl for cattle rustlers.
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Son of Roaring Dan
Title: Son of Roaring Dan
Character: Jane Belden
Released: July 25, 1940
Type: Movie
In this exciting western, Roaring Dan is the meanest old cuss around. He and his "son" are constantly bickering. But things are not as they seem as the young man is only pretending to be Dan's son so they can find the killers of the young man's real father. Among the guilty are two women.
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Saturday's Children
Title: Saturday's Children
Character: Girl at Party (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1940
Type: Movie
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
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Boss of Bullion City
Title: Boss of Bullion City
Character: Martha Hadley
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A lawman sets out to disrupt the operations of a crooked town boss.
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Convention Girl
Title: Convention Girl
Character: Daisy Miller, Tommy's Sweetheart
Released: October 30, 1935
Type: Movie
Wily hotel 'hostess' Babe LaVal navigates booming business, cabaret calls and shady deals in Atlantic City. She meets a soup magnate, and begins to feel it might be 'the real thing'.
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Watch the Birdie
Title: Watch the Birdie
Character: Dorothy Ripley
Released: August 10, 1935
Type: Movie
Prankster Bob is traveling to New York by ship with his girlfriend and he proposes to marry her. Along the trip, he plays pranks on the captain, passengers and his future father-in-law. When they arrive in the harbor, the captain and his father-in-law decide to revenge and the captain asks his men to retain Bob at the customs for hours. Then he heads to the office of his father-in-law where his girlfriend is waiting for him. But her father is still upset with Bob. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Serves You Right
Title: Serves You Right
Character: Helen Gray
Released: June 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Johnny (Shemp Howard) is promised the chief process server's job if he can serve a summons on Musclebound Pete, a local hood. Like the servers before him, he's not only unsuccessful, but beat up for his efforts. Pete's only weakness is women, so Johnny switches clothes with girlfriend Helen, and goes after Pete in drag.
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Woman in the Dark
Title: Woman in the Dark
Character: Helen Grant
Released: November 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives.
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The Road to Ruin
Title: The Road to Ruin
Character: Eve Monroe
Released: May 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion.
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This Side of Heaven
Title: This Side of Heaven
Character: Miss Spence - Maxwell's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
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Hooks and Jabs
Title: Hooks and Jabs
Released: August 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Harry is down and out. A woman friend from a temperance union loans him a buck. He goes to a bar and orders a glass of milk to get a free sandwich. After he loses the greenback, the burly saloon keeper confiscates Harry's sandwich and tells him to sweep the floor to pay his tab. In the back room is a boxing ring where the owner stages fights. By happenstance, Harry ends up in the ring. Outside, the temperance union pickets the saloon. Between the beer and the boxing, can Harry stay on his feet and help his crusading friend?
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Tied for Life
Title: Tied for Life
Character: The Bride
Released: July 1, 1933
Type: Movie
We first meet Harry on the morning of his wedding day. He looks like he's been partying, but we know he's a sweet guy because he sleeps with a photo of his bride. Friends serenade Harry outside, but when he goes to the window to join in they douse him with water. As he prepares for his wedding, he looks in the mirror and it shatters. When the groom attempts to run to the church the ring slips out of his hand and is run over by a passing car. As anyone who has seen Harry's 1924 comedy HIS MARRIAGE WOW can guess, the ring sticks to the tire, and Harry must climb on to the car to retrieve it.....
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Knight Duty
Title: Knight Duty
Character: Museum Director's Daughter
Released: May 6, 1933
Type: Movie
Harry is a hobo, one step ahead of the law. After accidentally foiling a purse snatcher, he cadges a ride on a flatbed truck, is knocked out when a wax figure falls on him during the ride, and is carried into a museum by someone thinking he's another manikin. Inside, it takes him a while to figure out that he's among dummies. Then, two enterprising jewel thieves arrive to steal the museum director's priceless ruby. Cops are on hand as well: when the ruby goes missing, Harry may be the perfect fall guy. Can Harry stay away from the cops, foil the theft, and behave heroically in front of the museum director's daughter, the same woman whose purse he saved that morning?
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Smoke Lightning
Title: Smoke Lightning
Character: Dorothy Benson
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
After Smoke wins the Blake ranch in a poker game, Blake commits suicide and Smoke deeds the ranch to Blake’s young daughter. But the Sheriff is after the ranch and has Smoke arrested for the murder of Blake and then brings in an impostor to pose as the girl’s relative.
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Rackety Rax
Title: Rackety Rax
Character: Doris
Released: October 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.
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King of Jazz
Title: King of Jazz
Character: Dancer
Released: April 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers—all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson.