Laura
1944 · Movie
as Woman (uncredited)
Aileen Pringle
1895-07-23
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San Francisco, California, USA
Aileen Pringle's favorite film was a mid-1920s silent based on a book by Elinor Glyn: Three Weeks (1924), sort of a "Lady Chatterly's Lover". She recalled in a 1980 telephone conversation: "The film was in good taste; some people thought the book was trashy". Anita Loos wrote in "A Girl Like I", the first volume of her autobiography, vaudeville comic Joe Frisco telling Glynn: "Leave me get this straight. You want to find some tramp that don't look like a tramp, to play that English tramp in your picture. But take it from me, that kind of tramp don't hang out in Hollywood". Aileen had spent her 20s married to Charles McKenzie Pringle, the son of Sir John Pringle, a Jamaica landowner and a member of the Privy and Legislative Councils of Jamaica. Aileen lived in Jamaica until she went on stage with George Arliss. When she began divorce proceedings against Pringle in 1926, Hollywood gossip columnists speculated she would marry H.L. Mencken. She did not remarry until 1944 when she became the bride of James M. Cain, author of "The Postman Always Rings Twice". I opened my 1980 telephone conversation with Aileen by mentioning that the day before I had been reading her correspondence with Mencken at the New York Public Library. "But all the letters were destroyed", she said. I knew that Mencken had asked for all of his letters to her back at the time he became engaged to Sara Haardt. Aileen was the only woman who received such a request from Mencken at that time. "It was your letters from the late '30s and '40s I was reading", I told Aileen. "In one of them Mencken was urging you to write a book. Did you ever finish it?" "No. I got married instead." In a 1946 letter she wrote to Mencken. "If I had remained married to that psychotic Cain, I would be wearing a straitjacket instead of the New Look." Date of Death 16 December 1989, New York City, New York
Filmography
Since You Went Away
1944 · Movie
as Woman at Cocktail Lounge (uncredited)
Happy Land
1943 · Movie
as Mrs. Prentiss (uncredited)
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943 · Movie
as Chaperon (uncredited)
Between Us Girls
1942 · Movie
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
They Died with Their Boots On
1941 · Movie
as Mrs. Sharp (uncredited)
Appointment for Love
1941 · Movie
as Nurse Gibbons (uncredited)
The Night of Nights
1939 · Movie
as Dress Saleslady (uncredited)
Calling Dr. Kildare
1939 · Movie
as Mrs. Thatcher (uncredited)
The Hardys Ride High
1939 · Movie
as Miss Booth
The Women
1939 · Movie
as Miss Carter the Saleslady (uncredited)
Should a Girl Marry?
1939 · Movie
as Mrs. White
Too Hot to Handle
1938 · Movie
as Mrs. Arthur MacArthur (uncredited)
Criminal Lawyer
1937 · Movie
as Mrs. Manning (uncredited)
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Thanks for Listening
1937 · Movie
as Lulu
John Meade's Woman
1937 · Movie
as Mrs. Melton
She's No Lady
1937 · Movie
as Mrs. Douglas
Nothing Sacred
1937 · Movie
as Mrs. Bullock (uncredited)
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937 · Movie
as Lady Maria Frinton
Piccadilly Jim
1936 · Movie
as Paducah Pomeroy
The Unguarded Hour
1936 · Movie
as Diana Roggers
Wanted: Jane Turner
1936 · Movie
as Norris' Secretary (uncredited)
Wife vs. Secretary
1936 · Movie
as Mrs. Anne Barker (uncredited)
Vanessa: Her Love Story
1935 · Movie
as Herries Servant
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Love Past Thirty
1934 · Movie
as Caroline Burt
Jane Eyre
1934 · Movie
as Lady Blanche Ingram
Sons of Steel
1934 · Movie
as Enid Chadburne
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Once to Every Bachelor
1934 · Movie
as Judy Bryant
By Appointment Only
1933 · Movie
as Diane Manners
The Phantom of Crestwood
1932 · Movie
as Mrs. Walcott
The Age of Consent
1932 · Movie
as Barbara
Police Court
1932 · Movie
as Diana McCormick
Subway Express
1931 · Movie
as Dale Tracy
Convicted
1931 · Movie
as Claire Norville
Murder at Midnight
1931 · Movie
as Esme Kennedy
Soldiers and Women
1930 · Movie
as Brenda Ritchie
Puttin' on the Ritz
1930 · Movie
as Mrs. Teddy Van Rennsler
Prince of Diamonds
1930 · Movie
as Eve Marley
A Single Man
1929 · Movie
as Mary Hazeltine
Night Parade
1929 · Movie
as Paula Vernoff
Wall Street
1929 · Movie
as Ann Tabor
Dream of Love
1928 · Movie
as The Duchess
The Baby Cyclone
1928 · Movie
as Lydia
Wickedness Preferred
1928 · Movie
as Kitty Dare
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Beau Broadway
1928 · Movie
as Yvonne
Body and Soul
1927 · Movie
as Hilda
Life in Hollywood No. 7
1927 · Movie
as Herself
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Adam and Evil
1927 · Movie
Tea For Three
1927 · Movie
as Doris Langford
The Great Deception
1926 · Movie
as Lois
Tin Gods
1926 · Movie
as Janet Stone
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
1926 · Movie
as Estelle
A Kiss in the Dark
1925 · Movie
as Janet Livingstone
A Thief in Paradise
1925 · Movie
as Rosa Carmino
One Year to Live
1925 · Movie
as Elsie Duchanier
The Mystic
1925 · Movie
as Zara
1925 Studio Tour
1925 · Movie
as Self
Soul Mates
1925 · Movie
as Velma
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Wildfire
1925 · Movie
as Claire Barrington
The Wife of the Centaur
1924 · Movie
as Inez Martin
Name the Man
1924 · Movie
as Isabelle
Three Weeks
1924 · Movie
as The Queen
True As Steel
1924 · Movie
as Mrs. Eva Boutelle
His Hour
1924 · Movie
as Tamara Loraine
Don't Marry for Money
1923 · Movie
as Edith Martin
The Christian
1923 · Movie
as Lady Robert Ure
Souls for Sale
1923 · Movie
as Lady Jane
The Tiger's Claw
1923 · Movie
as Chameli Brentwood
In the Palace of the King
1923 · Movie
as Princess Eboli
The Strangers' Banquet
1922 · Movie
as Mrs. Schuyler-Peabody
My American Wife
1922 · Movie
as Hortensia deVereta
Oath-Bound
1922 · Movie
as Alice
Stolen Moments
1920 · Movie
as Inez Salles
Earthbound
1920 · Movie
The Cost
1920 · Movie
as Olivia
The Wilderness Woman
· Movie
as Juneau MacLean
