Sally O'Neil

Sally O'Neil
Born	October 23, 1908 Bayonne, New Jersey United States
Died	June 18, 1968 (aged 59) Galesburg, Illinois United States
Other names	Virginia Louise Noonan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1925 - 1937
Spouse(s)	Stewart S. Battles

Sally O'Neil (October 23, 1908 – June 18, 1968) was an American film actress of the 1920s. She was born Virginia Louise Noonan, one of 11 children born to a judge in Bayonne, New Jersey. One of her sisters was actress Molly O'Day.

Convent-educated, she started her career in vaudeville, billed as "Chotsie Noonan". Known for her petite and curly brown hair. She was teamed with Constance Bennett and Joan Crawford in the MGM film Sally, Irene and Mary (1925), directed by Edmund Goulding, which brought her instant, but short-lived, fame.

She was paired with Crawford again as a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1926. Her fame began to subside after "talkies" replaced silents; she also had a problem with stage fright that didn't help either. By the late 1930s, her film career was over, but she continued on stage and toured with the USO until the 1950s.

She died of pneumonia in Galesburg, Illinois, aged 59, in 1968.

Selected filmography

• Don't (1925)
• Sally, Irene and Mary (1925)
• Mike (1926)
• The Auction Block (1926)
• Battling Butler (1926)
• Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927)
• The Callahans and the Murphys (1927)
• Frisco Sally Levy (1927)
• Becky (1927)
• The Battle of the Sexes (1928)
• Girl on the Barge (1929)
• Broadway Scandals (1929)
• A Real Girl (1929)
• On with the Show (1929)
• The Show of Shows (1929)
• Hold Everything (1930)
• Kathleen Mavourneen (1930)
• Murder by the Clock (1931)
• Salvation Nell (1931)
• The Brat (1931)
• By Appointment Only (1933)
• The Moth (1934)
• Convention Girl (1935)
• Too Tough to Kill (1935)
• Kathleen Mavourneen (1937)

External links

• Sally O'Neil at the Internet Movie Database
• Sally O'Neil at Virtual History
• http://www.fanpix.net/gallery/sally-o-neil-pictures.htm