Acting
Sally O'Neil
Born October 23, 1908 · Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Died June 18, 1968 · aged 59
After beginning in vaudeville, she was signed by Hal Roach Studios in 1925. When talking pictures arrived, her roles were limited because of her strong accent. After leaving movies, she found work on the stage and toured with the USO.
Known For
The Callahans and the Murphys · 1927The Callahans and the Murphys
★ 8.01927
MovieComedyDrama
The story of two feuding Irish immigrant families living in a tenement.
On With the Show! · 1929On With the Show!
★ 6.21929
MovieRomanceMusic
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?
Sisters · 1930Sisters
★ 8.01930
MovieCrimeDrama
In spite of her best efforts, a Manhattan model falls in love with a country-hick census taker, while trying to help out her sister and the sister's jobless husband.
The Show of Shows · 1929The Show of Shows
★ 6.61929
MovieMusic
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!
Broadway Fever · 1929Broadway Fever
★ 7.01929
MovieComedy
Stagestruck Sally McAllister can’t get an appointment with famed theatrical producer Eric Byron so Sally responds to an ad for a maid only to discover that she will be working for Byron himself! Falling for him but still burning with ambition she arranges for Lila Leroy, Byron's leading lady, to take a train to Oakland, California instead of New Jersey, then hot foots it to Oakland, New Jersey, where Byron's latest play is taking place, and impersonating Lila by wearing a blonde wig but as dress rehearsal approaches will she get away with the subterfuge?
Sally, Irene and Mary · 1925Sally, Irene and Mary
★ 5.71925
MovieComedyDrama
Sally, Irene and Mary are chorus girls who each have a different approach to life and love. The three women face temptation, betrayal and tragedy while performing together in a Broadway show.
Salvation Nell · 1931Salvation Nell
★ 7.01931
MovieDrama
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....
Battling Butler · 1926Battling Butler
★ 6.71926
MovieComedyRomance
A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart.
Filmography
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Battling Butler · 1926Battling Butler
★ 6.71926
MovieComedyRomance
A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart.
The Mountain Girl
Becky · 1927Becky
★ 8.01927
MovieComedyRomance
Rebecca (Sally O'Neil) is a salesgirl who gets a chance at a Broadway show; there, she attracts and is ultimately rejected by a society playboy.
Rebecca O'Brien McCloskey
Wandering Papas · 1926Wandering Papas
★ 5.41926
MovieComedy
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.
Susie, the Hermit's Daughter (as Sue O'Neill)













