1. Erin O'Brien-Moore created the role of Rose in the original Broadway production of Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Street Scene, and was put under contract in Hollywood and made a number of films in the 1930s.
11 Facts About Erin O'Brien-Moore
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Erin O'Brien-Moore's promising career on the stage and screen was interrupted by severe injuries she sustained in a 1939 fire.
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Erin O'Brien-Moore's father was publisher of the Tucson Citizen; her older brother was classical scholar Ainsworth O'Brien-Moore.
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Erin O'Brien-Moore was educated at a convent in Arizona, and planned to become a painter until she saw Alla Nazimova on the stage, when she turned her attention to the theatre.
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Erin O'Brien-Moore first appeared on Broadway in 1926 as a maid in The Makropoulos Secret.
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Erin O'Brien-Moore was the star of Elmer Rice's Street Scene, a naturalistic drama about life in a New York City tenement that ran for 601 performances on Broadway, toured throughout the United States, and received the Pulitzer Prize.
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Erin O'Brien-Moore took the role of Anna, and Betty Field played Rose, the role that O'Brien-Moore had created on the stage.
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Erin O'Brien-Moore co-starred with Charlie Ruggles in the sitcom The Ruggles, and in many series that included NBC Presents, General Electric Theater, Lux Video Theater, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Perry Mason.
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Erin O'Brien-Moore portrayed Miss Kelly in the 1961 pilot episode "The Return" of the series Window on Main Street, appeared in a 1965 episode of Kentucky Jones and played the role of Nurse Esther Choate in the TV version of Peyton Place for four seasons.
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Erin O'Brien-Moore was married to Mark Barron, drama editor of the Associated Press in 1936.
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Erin O'Brien-Moore died of cancer on May 3,1979, at the Motion Picture Country Hospital in Los Angeles.