Molly O'Day
Birth Name:
Suzanne Dobson Noonan
Birth Place:
Bayonne, New Jersey, United States
Profession
Actress, Soundtrack
Fast Facts
- Was one of the first film actresses to be given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Was the younger sister of another successful Hollywood actress, Sally O'Neil, and the two appeared together in the early talkie "Meet My Sister․"
- Beat out 2,000 other girls at auditions for the heroine role in "The Patent Leather Kid" in 1927, the film that launched her career
- Made her screen acting debut in the Laurel and Hardy short film "45 Minutes from Hollywood" in 1926
- Her struggle with her weight as a teenager was highly publicized, and she later said that she was threatened by her studio with a contract cancellation if she couldn't fit into a certain dress size
- After retiring from the film industry, she became a successful California real estate agent
- Best known for appearing in Hal Roach's "Our Gang" comedy film series