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O'Neill, Maire, 1887-1952

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Personal name headingO'Neill, Maire, 1887-1952
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Variant(s)Allgood, Maire, 1887-1952
Allgood, Mary, 1887-1952
Allgood, Molly, 1887-1952
O'Neil, Maire, 1887-1952
O'Neill, Marie, 1887-1952
Associated placeHollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Birth date1885-01-12
1886
1887-01-12
Death date1952-11-02
1952-11-02
1952-11-02
Place of birthDublin (Ireland)
Place of deathBasingstoke (England)
Field of activityMotion pictures Motion picture industry Acting Theater
AffiliationAbbey Theatre
Profession or occupationActresses Character actors and actresses
Found inPeg of Old Drury [MP] 1935: credits (the players, Maire O'Neill)
Juno and the paycock, [20--?]: cast (Maire O'Neil)
LC in OCLC, 4-27-89 (hdg.: O'Neill, Maire, 1887-1952)
Halliwell's Filmgoer's comp., 1985 (O'Neill, Maire; AKA Maire Allgood)
O'Connor, Joseph. Ghost light, 2011: CIP ([begins] "A lodging-house room in London 27 October 1952" ... Molly [reminisces])
Stewart, W.T. International film necrology, 1981 : page 227 (O'Neill, Marie; actress; born Dublin, Ireland; died November 2, 1952)
Dictionary of Irish biography, 2009: volume 7, page 779 (Máire O'Neill (Molly); actress; born 12 January 1887 in Dublin as Mary Allgood; was known as "Molly;" took the stage name "Máire O'Neill" in 1905; from 1930 she appeared in over twenty Hollywood films; died 2 November 1927 in London)
The encyclopedia of British film, 2013: page 571 (Maire O'Neill; born Dublin, 1887; died Basingstoke, 1852; actress; real name: Maire Allgood; character player; Abbey Theatre player)
Palmer, S. British film actors' credits, 1895-1987,©1988: page 600 (Maire O'Neill (1885-1952); Irish character player; formerly of the Abbey Theatre)
British Film Institute website, December 4, 2015 (Maire O'Neill; born 1886, Dublin; died 2 November 1952, Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Women's Museum of Ireland, via WWW, December 7, 2015 (Molly Allgood (Maire O'Neill); Irish actress, famed for her dramatic talents on stage and screen; star of the early days of the Abbey Theatre; born January 12, 1885; early in her career she changed her name to Máire O'Neill to separate herself from her sister Sara Allgood)
IBDb, December 4, 2015 (Maire O'Neill; performer; born 1887, Dublin, Ireland; died November 02, 1952, London, England; female)
IMDb, December 4, 2015 (Maire O'Neill; actress; born January 12, 1885 in Dublin, Ireland as Molly Allgood; died November 2, 1952 in Belfast, Northern Ireland; alternate name; Maire O'Neil; Irish leading lady of stage and screen, longtime member of the Abbey Theatre)
Wikipedia, December 4, 2015 (Maire O'Neill; born 12 January 1885, Dublin, Ireland; died 2 November 1952; Irish actress of stage and film; born as Mary Allgood and known as 'Molly', she had been engaged to Irish playwright John Millington Synge before his death ... died in Park Prewett Hospital at Basingstoke, England, on 2 Nov. 1951; Joseph O'Connor has written a novel, Ghost light, loosely based on Allgood's relationship with Synge)
Associated languageeng