Erin O'Brien-Moore

Erin O'Brien-Moore was born on May 02, 1902 in USA. Erin O'Brien-Moore's big-screen debut came with His Greatest Gamble directed by John S. Robertson in 1934. Erin O'Brien-Moore is known for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying directed by David Swift, Robert Morse stars as J. Pierpont Finch and Michele Lee as Rosemary Pilkington. The upcoming new movie Erin O'Brien-Moore plays is The Daughters of Joshua Cabe which will be released on Sep 13, 1972.

This fetching beauty, Erin O'Brien-Moore, started to attract notice on the Broadway stage before Warner Bros. signed her to a contract in the mid-30s. She played 'second leads' opposite many of the top stars on the lot, including Donald Cook in Ring Around the Moon (1936), Humphrey Bogart in La légion noire (1937), and Paul Muni in La vie d'Emile Zola (1937), in which Erin portrayed Nana, the pathetic streetwalker, who served as an unexpected source of inspiration to Zola in writing a novel detailing the corruption of society. Tragedy struck in 1939 when Erin was seriously burned in a restaurant fire. It took years of painful rehabilitation and reconstructive surgery before she was able to return to her profession, but she did so valiantly. Film roles again came her way, albeit minor ones, in the 1950s, this time as a character actress. Her more noticeable films included Destination... Lune! (1950), The Family Secret (1951), Ce n'est qu'un au revoir... (1955), and Les Plaisirs de l'enfer (1957). On TV she played Charlie Ruggles wife in the series The Ruggles (1949) and spent three seasons as Nurse Choate on Peyton Place (1964). Once wed to stage critic Mark Barron, she retired before the end of the decade. She died of cancer in 1979.