18 Facts About Zelma O'Neal

Zelma O'Neal was an American actress, singer, and dancer in the 1920s and 1930s.

Zelma O'Neal appeared on Broadway and in early sound films, including the Paramount Pictures films Paramount on Parade and Follow Thru.

Zelma O'Neal was born in Rock Falls, Illinois, on May 29,1903, and moved to Chicago at the age of two.

Zelma O'Neal attended public schools until she was fourteen, when she went to work in a factory and later took office jobs.

Zelma O'Neal worked occasionally in vaudeville, at first without pay and later professionally as a vaudeville act with her sister Berenice and a piano player.

Zelma O'Neal's touring brought her to the East Coast, where she was cast in Good News.

Zelma O'Neal was part of the cast that took Good News to London in 1928.

Zelma O'Neal returned to New York for a role in the musical Follow Thru.

Zelma O'Neal married Bushell in New York on November 22,1928.

Zelma O'Neal was appearing on Broadway in Maugham's The Sacred Flame.

That merry brat, Zelma O'Neal, who stomped her way into fame in Good News, has now moved up several rungs of the ladder to one of the leading parts.

Zelma O'Neal has such a good time cutting up in public that the audience has a better [one].

Zelma O'Neal appeared in the West Coast production of the show in Los Angeles in October 1929, and she stayed there to make her first films.

Zelma O'Neal appeared in Swing Along in Manchester and London in 1936.

Zelma O'Neal returned to New York on the Hamburg in June 1937.

Zelma O'Neal sure had talent but it didn't always register on film.

Zelma O'Neal published her reminiscences in 1984: Memoirs from Scotts Hill.

Zelma O'Neal died in Largo, Florida, on November 3,1989; upon her death, she was cremated.