Barbara O'Neil

About Barbara O'Neil

Who is it?: Actress
Birth Day: July 17, 1910
Birth Place:  St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Died On: September 3, 1980(1980-09-03) (aged 70)\nCos Cob, Connecticut, U.S.
Birth Sign: Leo
Occupation: Actress
Years active: 1937–59; 1970
Spouse(s): Joshua Logan (1940–1942; divorced)

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Barbara O'Neil was born on July 17, 1910 in  St. Louis, Missouri, United States, is Actress. Barbara O'Neil was born on July 17, 1910 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Gone with the Wind (1939), All This, and Heaven Too (1940) and Stella Dallas (1937). She was married to Joshua Logan. She died on September 3, 1980 in Cos Cob, Connecticut, USA.
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Biography/Timeline

1880

Barbara O'Neil was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Barbara (née Blackman; 1880-1963) and David O'Neil, a businessman and poet. Her mother was a socialite and suffragette. She spent her childhood mostly in Europe and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. Her maternal grandmother was Carrie Horton Blackman, a successful portrait Painter.

1931

She began her acting career in summer stock. In July 1931 Bretaigne Windust, Charles Leatherbee (the grandson of Charles Richard Crane), and Joshua Logan, the three Directors of the University Players, a three-year-old summer stock company at West Falmouth on Cape Cod, were looking for a leading lady for their repertory season that winter in Baltimore. At the suggestion of George Pierce Baker, they auditioned and hired O'Neil, one of his talented students at the Yale School of Drama. Romances born of the University Players led to three significant marriages: Actress Margaret Sullavan to Henry Fonda for a few months in 1932, director/actor Joshua Logan's younger sister Mary Lee Logan to Charles Leatherbee, and Joshua Logan himself to Barbara O'Neil, which lasted only a brief period in the early 1940s. O'Neil never remarried. She made her Broadway debut in a 1932 play about Carrie Nation. Her other stage credits include originating the role of Madam Serena Merle in a Broadway adaptation of The Portrait of a Lady in 1954.

1937

In 1937 O'Neil debuted in the film Stella Dallas, and in 1939 she was cast in the role of Ellen O'Hara, Scarlett O'Hara's mother, in Gone with the Wind (though she was only three years older than her onscreen "daughter," Vivien Leigh), after the role was turned down by Lillian Gish. The following year, she appeared in All This and Heaven Too; she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role of the domineering and jealous Duchesse de Praslin.

1941

Her later films include Shining Victory (1941), I Remember Mama (1948), The Secret Beyond the Door (1948) and two of Director Otto Preminger's films, Whirlpool (1949) and Angel Face (1952). She also appeared in The Nun's Story (1959), starring Audrey Hepburn.

1980

O'Neil died from a heart attack at the age of 70 on September 3, 1980.