Barbara O'Neil
| Barbara O' Neil | |
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in All This, and Heaven Too trailer (1940)
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| Born |
July 17, 1910 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | September 3, 1980 (aged 70) Cos Cob, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1937-59; 1970 |
| Spouse(s) | Joshua Logan (1940–1942; divorced) |
Barbara O'Neil (July 17, 1910 – September 3, 1980) was an American film and stage actress. She appeared in the popular film Gone with the Wind (1939) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1940 for her performance in All This, and Heaven Too.
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.
She began her acting career in . 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.
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