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Miss Nance O’Neil came to Boston last January for a two weeks’ engagement at the Columbia. She has been playing here ever since. The town is said to be “Nance O’Neil mad,” and to have exiled her orchestra to durance perpetual beneath the stage.
Jul 17, 2018 · Google “Nance O’Neil” and the result is this: Lizzie Borden’s Lesbian Lover. This anti-legacy has been brought to further renown in Frank Spiering’s inspired work of fiction, Lizzie, in which the sensationalist spreads the astonishing rumor that Lizzie’s “relationship with Nance was a blatant homosexual affair.”1.
O'Neil was referenced as a character in the musical Lizzie Borden: A Musical Tragedy in Two Axe, where she was played by Suellen Vance. The women's implied romantic relationship was explored as well in the 2010 play Nance O'Neil by David Foley and the 2006 novel Miss Lizzie by Walter Satterthwait.
Lizzie sealed her isolation in 1904 by striking up a friendship with Nance O’Neil, a Boston actress. The following year, to her neighbors’ horror, Lizzie gave a party—complete with caterers and potted palms—for Miss O’Neil and her troupe.
Jul 6, 2018 · The actress who ultimately became “Nance O’Neil” rode the Rankin roller coaster as the pet of his mid-life crisis. At the age of fifty, Rankin would virtually abandon his second wife, renowned actress Kitty Blanchard, and their children, to devote himself to his “great discovery.”
Aug 16, 2007 · Lizzie's reputed close relationship with actress Nance O'Neil caused nearly as much scandal and speculation as the murder trial itself. Meeting in 1904, the actress, who was always short of funds, recognized in Lizzie a wealthy patron and benefactress.
Jul 5, 2018 · Once immersed in the Lizzie Borden murder case, I found I could combine my involvement with the enigmatic Nance, with my enthusiasm for Lizzie, as Nance was once a brief companion of the infamous accused hatchet-murderess.
Sep 17, 2018 · Carolyn Gage is the playwright that called Nance O’Neil an “outrageous lesbian”. Film & Television 1975: The Legend of Lizzie Borden , an ABC television film starring Elizabeth Montgomery as Borden and Fionnula Flanagan as Bridget Sullivan.
Sep 20, 2010 · David Foley’s stodgy nondrama is about the relationship between the notorious Lizzie Borden and Nance O’Neil, an otherwise little-remembered stage and screen actress.
Jun 13, 2020 · It was a perfect weekend to journey out to Tyngsborough to get a glimpse of what was left of the charm Nance O’Neil found at her farm. The town, which is nestled between the Merrimack River and Flint Pond is a sleepy little place, filled with quiet backroads and rustic appeal, meadows and wildlife.
