Sally O'Neil

Sally O'Neil

Born: October 23, 1908
Died: June 18, 1968
in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

Movies for Sally O'Neil...

Kathleen Mavourneen
Title: Kathleen Mavourneen
Character: Kathleen O'Moore
Released: February 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A hugely popular, much-adapted comedy in which a Liverpool lass visits family in rural Ireland and finds she has several rivals for her affections
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Too Tough to Kill
Title: Too Tough to Kill
Character: Ann Miller
Released: December 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents.
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Convention Girl
Title: Convention Girl
Character: Gracie, Call Girl
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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Beggar's Holiday
Title: Beggar's Holiday
Character: Myrt Malloy
Released: August 17, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman falls in love with the man of her dreams, not knowing that he's an embezzler who's about to flee the country.
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The Moth
Title: The Moth
Character: Diana Wyman
Released: January 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Wealthy young socialite Diane Wyman squanders her fortune and becomes involved in a scandalous raid at a wild party. Her legal guardian, a lecherous old man who has the hots for her, hires a private detective to spy on her. He tails her to a train headed for New Orleans, but she catches on to him. She befriends a young woman aboard the train and they both give the private eye the slip. What Diane doesn't know, however, is that that her newfound friend is actually a notorious criminal known as The Moth, and she has her own reasons for helping Diane escape--she, too, is being tailed by a detective, who's after a cache of jewels she's stolen.
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Sixteen Fathoms Deep
Title: Sixteen Fathoms Deep
Character: Rosita
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A sponge diver hopes to make enough money to buy his own boat and marry his girlfriend. A rival diver, however, has other plans for him.
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Ladies Must Love
Title: Ladies Must Love
Character: Dot La Tour
Released: September 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Lighthearted comedy film following the (mis)adventures of four gold diggers.
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By Appointment Only
Title: By Appointment Only
Character: Judy Carroll
Released: July 6, 1933
Type: Movie
When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn't save her--takes an interest in the woman's young daughter, and makes her his ward, but his fiancé doesn't particularly like it. After he returns from a three-year engagement in Europe, the doctor discovers that his ward is now a beautiful, full-grown woman, and finds himself falling for her--even though she's engaged to his fiancé's brother.
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The Brat
Title: The Brat
Character: The Brat
Released: August 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways.
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Murder by the Clock
Title: Murder by the Clock
Character: Jane, a Maid
Released: July 21, 1931
Type: Movie
A policeman (William Boyd) investigates a woman's (Lilyan Tashman) link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a family mausoleum.
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Salvation Nell
Title: Salvation Nell
Character: Myrtle
Released: July 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Young Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries to redeem him when he comes out....
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Round About Hollywood
Title: Round About Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: May 22, 1931
Type: Movie
This short travelogue depicts snippets of locations in Hollywood, California, most of them as seen from the streets. Considerable time is taken showing the kinds of architecture of private homes. There are images of various important buildings, and a depiction of the Hollywood Bowl. Finally, there is a sequence revolving around the premiere of the film “Dirigible” (1931) at the famed Chinese Theatre.
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Kathleen Mavourneen
Title: Kathleen Mavourneen
Character: Kathleen O'Connor
Released: June 19, 1930
Type: Movie
Kathleen O'Connor, fresh off the boat from Ireland, must decide between the two men who love her - a poor plumber and a wealthy politician.
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Hold Everything
Title: Hold Everything
Character: Sue Burke
Released: March 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.
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Girl of the Port
Title: Girl of the Port
Character: Josie
Released: February 2, 1930
Type: Movie
Josie, a New York showgirl with a mind of her own and a heart of gold, finds herself stranded on the island of Fiji. While seeking a way home she is befriended by a local man who gets her a job working as a barmaid at The Bamboo Bar. There she meets an alcoholic World War I veteran who is haunted by his wartime experiences and has an irrational fear of fire. Under her concerned care, he begins to recover and they fall in love. But then her jealous self-appointed boyfriend forces the veteran to participate in a traditional Fijian fire-walking ritual. To overcome his terror he must walk across 20 feet of burning coals and fight his rival to reach Josie's loving arms.
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Show of Shows
Title: Show of Shows
Character: Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Released: November 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
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Broadway Scandals
Title: Broadway Scandals
Character: Mary
Released: November 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Ted Howard, a vaudevillian left, stranded in a tank town. A local girl, Mary (Sally O'Neil), proposes to finance a new act with her savings and the team succeeds in a minor way until Ted is discovered by Broadway femme fatale Valeska (Carmel Myers). Not wishing to stand in her partner's way, Mary nobly resigns from the act and instead accepts a minor role in the show. She proves a sensation on opening night, however, and a jealous Valeska demands her ousted. But Ted, who is in love with Mary, reorganizes their old act and they begin a new life together as man and wife.
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Jazz Heaven
Title: Jazz Heaven
Character: Ruth Morgan
Released: November 3, 1929
Type: Movie
A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
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The Sophomore
Title: The Sophomore
Character: Margie Callahan
Released: August 24, 1929
Type: Movie
Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football game.
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On With the Show!
Title: On With the Show!
Character: Kitty
Released: July 13, 1929
Type: Movie
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?
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Hardboiled
Title: Hardboiled
Character: Teena Johnson
Released: March 20, 1929
Type: Movie
Chorus girl Teena Johnson may be "hard-boiled," but she's no golddigger. Thus, when the father of her wealthy sweetheart Kyle Stannard tries to buy her off, Sally refuses the money. She sticks by Kyle even after he is disinherited and forced to go to work. The financial strain on the young couple's marriage eventually takes its toll, and before long they separate, with Sally returning to the chorus line to square her husband's debts.
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The Girl on the Barge
Title: The Girl on the Barge
Character: Erie McCadden
Released: February 3, 1929
Type: Movie
The illiterate daughter of a drunken, nasty sea captain falls in love with a tugboat pilot. Her father disapproves of the relationship, and is determined to do everything he can to break it up.
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Broadway Fever
Title: Broadway Fever
Character: Sally McAllister
Released: January 1, 1929
Type: Movie
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The Floating College
Title: The Floating College
Character: Pat Bixby
Released: November 10, 1928
Type: Movie
College Life - Love - and the big things of life under the light-heartedness of youth.
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The Battle of the Sexes
Title: The Battle of the Sexes
Character: Ruth, the Daughter
Released: October 12, 1928
Type: Movie
Gum-chewing frizzy-haired golddigger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson. Marie moves into Judson's apartment building and contrives to meet and seduce him, plying him with compliments, music, swoons, décolletage, and batted eyes. When his loyal wife (and their two children) see him out catting with Marie at a night club, mom's devastated and confronts him. He moves out. Babe wants Marie to sell Judson worthless bonds. Will mom commit suicide? Will sis shoot the floozy? Will pops figure out he's being a fool?
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Mad Hour
Title: Mad Hour
Character: Cuddles
Released: March 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Mad Hour is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Boyle and starring Sally O'Neil, Alice White and Donald Reed. It was adapted from a novel by Elinor Glyn.
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The Lovelorn
Title: The Lovelorn
Released: December 17, 1927
Type: Movie
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Becky
Title: Becky
Character: Rebecca O'Brien McCloskey
Released: November 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Becky (1927) film
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The Callahans and the Murphys
Title: The Callahans and the Murphys
Released: June 18, 1927
Type: Movie
The story of two feuding Irish immigrant families living in a tenement.
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Frisco Sally Levy
Title: Frisco Sally Levy
Character: Sally Colleen Lapidowitz
Released: April 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Sally Lapidowitz is the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother and the girlfriend of motorcycle cop Patrick Sweeney. Sally finds herself attracted to the fancy Stuart Gold, a young Jewish boy who charms her father but raises Patrick's suspicions, which are soon justified.
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Slide, Kelly, Slide
Title: Slide, Kelly, Slide
Character: Mary Munson
Released: March 12, 1927
Type: Movie
A minor league pitcher lets pride get the better of him after he joins the New York Yankees.
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
Title: 45 Minutes from Hollywood
Character: Orville's Sister (as Sue O'Neil)
Released: December 26, 1926
Type: Movie
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
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Battling Butler
Title: Battling Butler
Character: The Mountain Girl
Released: September 19, 1926
Type: Movie
A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart.
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Mike
Title: Mike
Character: Mike
Released: May 10, 1926
Type: Movie
A Modest Comedy Drama
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Wandering Papas
Title: Wandering Papas
Character: Susie, the Hermit's Daughter (as Sue O'Neill)
Released: February 21, 1926
Type: Movie
A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake. He sets off into the wide open spaces to collect the food, coming into contact with a mad hermit, who hates anybody seeing his daughter, before returning to cook dinner
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Long Pants
Title: Long Pants
Character: Glenn's Sister
Released: January 31, 1926
Type: Movie
Glenn's first attempt at wearing long trousers and being a man about town goes swimmingly as he quickly falls for a vivacious young widow who accidentally runs him down. But his father feels she is beyond his abilities and competes for her attention.
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Flaming Flappers
Title: Flaming Flappers
Released: December 27, 1925
Type: Movie
Mother - The hand that rocks the family - and rocks it often! A family comedy.
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Sally, Irene and Mary
Title: Sally, Irene and Mary
Character: Mary O'Brien
Released: December 27, 1925
Type: Movie
The three are showgirls, each with a different approach to life and love.
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Don't
Title: Don't
Character: Tracey Moffat
Released: November 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Don't is a 1926 silent Comedy
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1925 Studio Tour
Title: 1925 Studio Tour
Character: Self
Released: April 9, 1925
Type: Movie
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.