Nance O'Neil
Also Known As: Gertrude Lamson, Nancy O'Neil
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".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oakland, California, USA
Birthday: October 06, 1874
Deathday: February 07, 1965
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Eyes of the World
Overview: The Eyes of the World is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry King and written by Brewster Morse and Clarke Silvernail. The film stars Eulalie Jensen, Florence Roberts, Una Merkel, and Nance O'Neil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-30
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Cimarron
Overview: When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
Genres: Drama Western History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-26
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The Fall of the Romanoffs
Overview: The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of cinema couldn't help but jump on it immediately and create a couple of dramatizations.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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Ladies of Leisure
Overview: Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-05
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Seven Deadly Sins: Greed
Overview: Eve Leslie and Adam Moore become interested in the stock market. Eve decides to try to add to her fortunes by plunging. Tempted by the sin of greed, Eve becomes reckless. At first she wins, then she begins to lose, and desperately tries to recover her losses.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-12
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The Seventh Sin
Overview: This story of gluttony was the final installment in the seven films based on the Seven Deadly Sins. The censors considered the word to vulgar for use as a title for a film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-17
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Mrs. Balfame
Overview: Mrs. Balfame is a 1917 Mystery Drama
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-09
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Secret Service
Overview: In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.
Genres: Western Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-14
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The Lady of Scandal
Overview: A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-24
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The Good Bad Girl
Overview: A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-20
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Call of the Flesh
Overview: A postulant falls in love with a flamboyant singer from a cafe next door to her convent.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-16
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The Florodora Girl
Overview: A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-31
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Transgression
Overview: When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-27
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The Iron Woman
Overview: Steel mill owner Sarah Maitland has raised her two children, Blair and Nannie, to be honest and caring, however Blair disappoints her when he seduces the wife of his best friend and breaks up her marriage. No one is happy but it takes a near fatal accident to set things right.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-02
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His Glorious Night
Overview: Being engaged against her will with a wealthy man, Princess Orsolini (Catherine Dale Owen) is in love with Captain Kovacs (John Gilbert), a cavalry officer she is secretly meeting. Her mother Eugenie (Nance O'Neil), who has found out about the affair forces her to dump Kovacs and take part in the arranged marriage. Though not believing her own words, Orsolini reluctantly tells Kovacs she cannot ever fall in love with a man with his social position. Feeling deeply hurt, Kovacs decides to take revenge by indulging in blackmail, spreading a rumor that he is an imposter and a swindler.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-28
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The Rogue Song
Overview: In czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-17
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False Faces
Overview: The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicago as a "prestigious" plastic surgeon to the stars. However, Brenton's silver tongue can't cover up his dubious methods, and an investigation into his practice is launched by the examining board of plastic surgeons. A delirious film à clef based on the loathsome career of Henry J. Schireson, the self-styled “King of Quacks”.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-12
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Overview: A French sailor, imprisoned for years on false charges of conpiring against the king, escapes and exacts revenge on his accusers.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-01
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Westward Passage
Overview: A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-27
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A Woman of Experience
Overview: It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-08
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The Witch
Overview: A young woman uses her hypnotic powers to destroy the potential marriage of her crush.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-27
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Their Mad Moment
Overview: Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir Harry Congers, but in love with Basque peasant Esteban Cristera. Deciding on a final fling before wedlock, Emily goes to Esteban's village in the mountains, but is wounded in a car accident. Recuperating, she learns about the hardships endured by Basque women from Esteban's grandmother and former girlfriend, Stancia, and decides to return to Sir Harry in Biarritz.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-12
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The Royal Bed
Overview: The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming general.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-15
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Resurrection
Overview: Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-27
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A Criminal at Large
Overview: At Marks Priory, Lady Lebanon is eager for her son, Lord William Lebanon, to marry Isla Crane, his cousin. But Isla is reluctant to do so, and is also frightened by the two footmen of the household who she suspects of locking her in her room at night. Following a village dance, the household's chauffeur is found strangled with an Indian scarf.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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Hedda Gabler
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-07
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Kreutzer Sonata
Overview: Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather better remembered as Theda Bara's follow-up to the sensational A Fool There Was (1914).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-01
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