Nell O'Day

Acting

Nell O'Day

Born 1909-09-22 · Prairie Hill, Washington County, Texas, USA

Nell O'Day (September 22, 1909 – January 3, 1989) was an accomplished American equestrian and B-movie actress of the 1930s and 1940s.

Acting credits

The Road to Ruin poster
4.3

A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion.

The Road to Ruin

1934

Convention Girl poster
8.0

Wily hotel 'hostess' Babe LaVal navigates booming business, cabaret calls and shady deals in Atlantic City. She meets a soup magnate, and begins to feel it might be 'the real thing'.

Convention Girl

1935

Buck Privates poster
6.8

Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.

Buck Privates

1941

Back Street poster
7.3

In turn-of-the-century Cincinnati, vibrant shop girl Ray Smith falls in love with banker Walter Saxel, who is engaged to a socially prominent woman. Inadvertently prevented from running away with Walter, Ray remains single but reunites with him five years later. Despite Walter being married and having a son, Ray becomes his mistress, and over the years suffers social ostracism and long stretches of solitude while waiting for their brief interludes together.

Back Street

1941

King of Jazz poster
6.3

A large-scale revue musical built around Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, presenting a series of musical performances, sketches, and staged tableaux in early two-color Technicolor, emblematic of Hollywood’s early sound-era “all-star” musical productions.

King of Jazz

1930

There's One Born Every Minute poster
7.9

A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.

There's One Born Every Minute

1942

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break poster
7.0

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beaten up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film.

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

1941

The Masked Rider poster
7.2

The beautiful owner of a silver mine in Mexico asks an employee for help when bandits keep robbing her shipments.

The Masked Rider

1941

The Mystery of Marie Roget poster
5.7

A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.

The Mystery of Marie Roget

1942

This Side of Heaven poster
7.5

A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.

This Side of Heaven

1934

Woman in the Dark poster
6.1

A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives.

Woman in the Dark

1934

Law and Order poster
8.0

Bill Ralston arrives in town planning to settle down but quickly gets caught up in the fight between the townspeople and Poe Daggett and his gang. He takes the job of town Marshal and soon brings law and order. When Daggetts men ambush him he kills Poe's brother. Poe then kills Bill's friend Brant and this leads to the showdown.

Law and Order

1940

Stagecoach Buckaroo poster
7.5

Saved from a lynching party by a pair of young women, an itinerant cowpuncher signs on as a stagecoach guard to protect a shipment of gold.

Stagecoach Buckaroo

1942

Saturday's Children poster
6.9

An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.

Saturday's Children

1940

Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie poster
6.5

A young mining engineer sets out to catch the killers of both his brother and a beautiful young girl's father.

Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie

1941

Ragtime Cowboy Joe poster
9.0

Universal's Ragtime Cowboy Joe is a modern western with a dash of music, not unlike the standard fare at Republic Pictures. The title character is a confused cowhand played by Fuzzy Knight, while the hero is Steve (Johnny Mack Brown), an undercover detective on the prowl for cattle rustlers.

Ragtime Cowboy Joe

1940

Boss of Rawhide poster
6.7

Texas Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins are sent to the district of Rawhide to investigate the killings of several ranchers. Tex enters the town posing as a tramp while the other two Rangers join a troupe of itinerant minstrels.

Boss of Rawhide

1943

Boss of Bullion City poster
6.0

A lawman sets out to disrupt the operations of a crooked town boss.

Boss of Bullion City

1940

Law of the Range poster
6.5

The Wolverine Kid kills a man and it looks like Steve Howard did it. But Steve's father recognizes the bullet as coming from the gun owned by the Kid.

Law of the Range

1941

Knight Duty poster
9.0

Harry is a hobo, one step ahead of the law. After accidentally foiling a purse snatcher, he cadges a ride on a flatbed truck, is knocked out when a wax figure falls on him during the ride, and is carried into a museum by someone thinking he's another manikin. Inside, it takes him a while to figure out that he's among dummies. Then, two enterprising jewel thieves arrive to steal the museum director's priceless ruby. Cops are on hand as well: when the ruby goes missing, Harry may be the perfect fall guy. Can Harry stay away from the cops, foil the theft, and behave heroically in front of the museum director's daughter, the same woman whose purse he saved that morning?

Knight Duty

1933

Arizona Cyclone poster
7.0

Crenshaw and Randolph are competing freight haulers and Randolph's lead man Tom Baxter has given him an advantage....

Arizona Cyclone

1941

Perils of the Royal Mounted poster
7.0

Sergeant MacLane of the Mounties investigates the disruptive activities of a bunch of troublemakers.

Perils of the Royal Mounted

1942

Smoke Lightning poster
5.3

After Smoke wins the Blake ranch in a poker game, Blake commits suicide and Smoke deeds the ranch to Blake’s young daughter. But the Sheriff is after the ranch and has Smoke arrested for the murder of Blake and then brings in an impostor to pose as the girl’s relative.

Smoke Lightning

1933

Rackety Rax poster
6.5

Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.

Rackety Rax

1932