Nance ONeil, 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. ONeils 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.

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Transgression

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The Eyes of the World

Myra Willard

Movie 1930

Cimarron

Felice Venable

Movie 1931

The Fall of the Romanoffs

Czarina Alexandra

Movie 1918

Ladies of Leisure

Mrs. Strong

Movie 1930

Seven Deadly Sins: Greed

Movie 1917

The Seventh Sin

Alma

Movie 1917

Mrs. Balfame

Mrs. Balfame

Movie 1917

Secret Service

Mrs. Varney

Movie 1931

The Lady of Scandal

Lady Trench

Movie 1930

The Good Bad Girl

Mrs. Henderson

Movie 1931

Call of the Flesh

Mother Superior

Movie 1930

The Florodora Girl

Mrs. Vibart

Movie 1930

The Iron Woman

Sarah Maitland

Movie 1916

His Glorious Night

Eugenie

Movie 1929

The Rogue Song

Princess Alexandra

Movie 1930

False Faces

Mrs. Finn

Movie 1932

The Count of Monte Cristo

Mercedes

Movie 1913

Westward Passage

Mrs. von Stael (uncredited)

Movie 1932

A Woman of Experience

Countess Runyi

Movie 1931

The Witch

Zora Fernandez

Movie 1916

Their Mad Moment

Grand Mere

Movie 1931

The Royal Bed

Martha, the Queen

Movie 1931

Resurrection

Princess Marya

Movie 1931

A Criminal at Large

Lady Lebanon

Movie 1939

Hedda Gabler

Movie 1917

Kreutzer Sonata

Miriam Friedlander

Movie 1915