Erin O'Brien-Moore (born Annette O'Brien-Moore, May , â€" May , ) was
an American actress. She 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 s. Her promising career on the stage and screen
was interrupted by severe injuries she sustained in a fire. Following
her recovery and extensive plastic surgery she returned to the stage
and character roles in films and television, including four seasons of
the primetime serial drama Peyton Place (â€").O'Brien-Moore was born
in Los Angeles,: to J.B.L. and Agnes O'Brien-Moore. Her father was
publisher of the Tucson Citizen; her older brother was classical
scholar Ainsworth O'Brien-Moore. She 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. She first
appeared on Broadway in as a maid in The Makropoulos Secret. In ,
O'Brien-Moore played the female lead in E.E. Cummings' Him at the
Provincetown Playhouse. She was the star of Elmer Rice's Street Scene
(), a naturalistic drama about life a New York City tenement that ran
for performances on Broadway, toured throughout the United States,
and received the Pulitzer Prize. During the play's six-month run in
London, Aldous Huxley became an ardent fan of O'Brien-Moore and saw
her performance at least three times.O'Brien-Moore's stage success led
to a Hollywood contract and second-lead roles in films, including
Black Legion () with Humphrey Bogart. In The Life of Emile Zola (),
with Paul Muni, she played the character who inspired the fictional
character Nana. Her other films include Dangerous Corner (), Little
Men (), His Greatest Gamble (), Seven Keys to Baldpate (), Streamline
Express (), Our Little Girl (), Two in the Dark (), The Ex-Mrs.
Bradford (), Ring Around the Moon (), The Leavenworth Case (), Green
Light () and The Plough and the Stars ().
an American actress. She 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 s. Her promising career on the stage and screen
was interrupted by severe injuries she sustained in a fire. Following
her recovery and extensive plastic surgery she returned to the stage
and character roles in films and television, including four seasons of
the primetime serial drama Peyton Place (â€").O'Brien-Moore was born
in Los Angeles,: to J.B.L. and Agnes O'Brien-Moore. Her father was
publisher of the Tucson Citizen; her older brother was classical
scholar Ainsworth O'Brien-Moore. She 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. She first
appeared on Broadway in as a maid in The Makropoulos Secret. In ,
O'Brien-Moore played the female lead in E.E. Cummings' Him at the
Provincetown Playhouse. She was the star of Elmer Rice's Street Scene
(), a naturalistic drama about life a New York City tenement that ran
for performances on Broadway, toured throughout the United States,
and received the Pulitzer Prize. During the play's six-month run in
London, Aldous Huxley became an ardent fan of O'Brien-Moore and saw
her performance at least three times.O'Brien-Moore's stage success led
to a Hollywood contract and second-lead roles in films, including
Black Legion () with Humphrey Bogart. In The Life of Emile Zola (),
with Paul Muni, she played the character who inspired the fictional
character Nana. Her other films include Dangerous Corner (), Little
Men (), His Greatest Gamble (), Seven Keys to Baldpate (), Streamline
Express (), Our Little Girl (), Two in the Dark (), The Ex-Mrs.
Bradford (), Ring Around the Moon (), The Leavenworth Case (), Green
Light () and The Plough and the Stars ().
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