Zelma O'Neal was an actress, singer, and dancer in the 1920s and 1930s. She appeared on Broadway

Broadway theatre

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 and in early sound film

Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before sound motion pictures were made commercially...

s, including the Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

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 films Paramount on Parade

Paramount on Parade

Paramount on Parade is a all-star revue released by Paramount Pictures, directed by several directors including Edmund Goulding, Dorothy Arzner, Ernst Lubitsch, Rowland V. Lee, A. Edward Sutherland, Victor Heerman, Lothar Mendes, Otto Brower, Edwin H...

and Follow Thru

Follow Thru

Follow Thru is a 1930 musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was the second all-color all-talking feature to be produced by Paramount Pictures. The film was based on the popular 1929 Broadway play of the same name by Frank Mandel and Laurence Schwab. The play ran from January...

(both 1930).

She was married to actor Anthony Bushell

Anthony Bushell

Anthony Bushell was an English film actor and director, who appeared in 56 films between 1929 and 1961. He also appeared on and directed various British TV series such as Danger Man.-Early life:...

 from 1928-1935. He said in the 1990s that he ended the marriage because he wanted a joint career but she wanted to be a society hostess. He also claimed to have been married three times, which does not seem to have been the case.

Selected filmography

• Mister Cinders (1934)
• Freedom of the Seas (1934)
• There Goes Susie
  There Goes Susie
  There Goes Susie is a 1934 British comedy film directed by Victor Hanbury and John Stafford. It was adapted from the novel There Goes Susie by Hans Jacoby and Charlie Roellinghoff. An artist is hired by a major soap company for an advertisement...
  
  (1934)
• Spring in the Air (1934)
• Joy Ride (1934)
• Give Her a Ring
  Give Her a Ring
  Give Her a Ring is a 1934 British musical film directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Clifford Mollison, Wendy Barrie and Zelma O'Neal. A worker in a telephone exchange falls in love with her employer. It was a remake of the 1932 German film Fräulein - Falsch verbunden. Stewart Granger made an...
  
  (1936)
• Let's Make a Night of It
  Let's Make a Night of It
  Let's Make a Night of It is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Charles Rogers, June Clyde and Claire Luce. A husband and his wife acquire rival nightclubs at the same time...
  
  (1938)

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