
October 6, 1874
Nance O'Neil, born Gertrude Lamson, was an American stage and screen actress. When she decided to become an actress, her religious father, George Lamson, an auctioneer, denounced his daughter in church for going on the stage and asked the congregation to pray for her. O'Neil's first performance in a…

A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.

An upper-crust artist hires a 'party girl' as a model; romance follows.