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Nell O'Day Born September 22, 1909
Prairie Hill, TexasDied January 3, 1989 (aged 79)
Los Angeles, CaliforniaOccupation Film actress Nell O'Day (September 22, 1909 – January 3, 1989) was an accomplished equestrian and B-movie actress of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Prairie Hill, Texas, O'Day was a good looking woman in her youth, and had her first screen roles in the 1920s as a teenager.
Her first starring role was in 1932 when she starred in Rackety Rax opposite Victor McLaglen and Greta Nissan. From 1933 through 1940 she would star in nineteen films, with only a small number of those being western films. Starting in 1941 she began starring in roles placing her as the heroine in westerns, often opposite Johnny Mack Brown, Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Max Terhune, and John 'Dusty' King.
In 1942 she starred as the heroine in several cliffhanger episodes of Perils of the Royal Mounted. In 1943, under contract with Republic Pictures, she began starring in the serial films the Three Mesquiteers, alongside Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Jimmie Dodd. Her last starring role was in 1943, in the film Boss of the Rawhide, opposite Dave O'Brien. She had one more role, in 1946 when she starred in The Story of Kenneth W. Randall M.D., but concentrated mostly on writing screenplays and stage plays.
She spent the rest of her life writing for stage and screen. She died of a heart attack on January 3, 1989, in Los Angeles, California.
External links
- Nell O'Day at the Internet Movie Database
- Nell O'Day at AllRovi
Categories:- People from Washington County, Texas
- Actors from Texas
- American screenwriters
- Women screenwriters
- Women dramatists and playwrights
- American dramatists and playwrights
- Deaths from myocardial infarction
- American film actors
- 1909 births
- 1989 deaths
- American film actor, 1900s birth stubs
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