Biography
Stage actress Anne O'Neal first showed up onscreen as a street singer in
John Ford's
The Informer. Well suited for such roles as spinsterish gossips and baleful landladies, O'Neal kept busy in the mid-'30s with the Columbia Pictures short-subject unit, serving as the foil for such comics as
Andy Clyde and
The Three Stooges. During the 1940s, she was a semi-regular in the one- and two-reel productions of MGM, showing up in the Passing Parade,
Our Gang, and Crime Does Not Pay series. Her feature-film credits include such small but memorable roles as psychiatrist
Porter Hall's neurotic secretary in
Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and Miss Sifert in the cult classic
Gun Crazy (1949). Anne O'Neal spent her last active years in television, most poignantly as one of the "rejuvenated" senior citizens in the 1962
Twilight Zone episode "Kick the Can." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide