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Nance O'Neil
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Actor Born: October 8, 1874 in Oakland, CA Death: February 7, 1965 in Englewood, NJ Biography:A major stage star who played Lady Macbeth, Hedda Gabler, and Camille, the tall (nearly six feet) "Nance O'Neil" was reportedly the lover of murderess Lizzie Borden. A notorious spendthrift always in financial trouble, O'Neil was one of the first of her generation of actresses to embrace motion pictures. Signing with producer "William Fox", she starred in a 1915 screen version of Leo Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata. Although receiving favorable reviews, the veteran star was somewhat upstaged by the colorful "Theda Bara", and it was Bara who would become Fox's major dramatic star, not the aging O'Neil. The latter continued to appear in films through 1917 -- including playing the Czarina in The Fall of the Romanoffs -- but moviegoers never truly warmed up to her and she returned to the stage. O'Neil was back in the new, audible Hollywood by 1929, supporting "John Gilbert" and "Catherine Dale Owen" in the... Full Biography
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