including Big Sister. After extensive plastic surgery, O'Brien-Moore returned to the stage and resumed her career in films and television. In 1948, she performed on Kraft Television Theatre and in The Philco Television Playhouse presentation, "Street Scene". She took the role of Anna, and Betty Field played Rose, the role that O'Brien-Moore had created on the stage. She co-starred with Charlie Ruggles in the situation comedy The Ruggles (1950–52), and in series including NBC Presents, General Electric Theater, Lux Video Theater, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Perry Mason ("The Case of the Deadly Verdict"). She portrayed Miss Kelly in the 1961 pilot episode, "The Return," of the series Window on Main Street (1961–62), appeared in a 1965 episode of Kentucky Jones and played the role of Nurse Esther Choate in the TV version of Peyton Place for four seasons (1965–68). Her later feature films include Destination Moon (1950), The Family Secret (1951), Sea of Lost Ships (1954), Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954), Peyton Place (1957) and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967). Personal life and last years O'Brien-Moore was married to Mark Barron, drama editor of the Associated Press in 1936. Their 10-year marriage ended in divorce. O'Brien-Moore died of cancer on May 3, 1979 at the Motion Picture Country Hospital in Los Angeles. Filmography References External links Erin O'Brien Moore Papers, circa 1910–1950 #4069, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1902 births 1979 deaths Actresses from Los Angeles American film actresses American stage actresses American television actresses Deaths from cancer in California 20th-century American actresses