Aileen Pringle
74 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 23, 1895
- Died
- Dec 16, 1989 (age 94)
- Place of birth
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Also known as
- Aileen Bisbee
Biography
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
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Known for
Aileen Pringle: movies and TV shows
Acting (74)
- Upcoming The Wilderness Woman
as Juneau MacLean
- 1944 Laura
as Woman (uncredited)
- 1944 Since You Went Away
as Woman at Cocktail Lounge (uncredited)
- 1943 Happy Land
as Mrs. Prentiss (uncredited)
- 1943 Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
as Chaperon (uncredited)
- 1942 Between Us Girls
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
- 1941 They Died with Their Boots On
as Mrs. Sharp (uncredited)
- 1941 Appointment for Love
as Nurse Gibbons (uncredited)
- 1939 The Night of Nights
as Dress Saleslady (uncredited)
- 1939 The Women
as Miss Carter the Saleslady (uncredited)
- 1939 Should a Girl Marry?
as Mrs. White
- 1939 Calling Dr. Kildare
as Mrs. Thatcher (uncredited)
- 1939 The Hardys Ride High
as Miss Booth
- 1938 Too Hot to Handle
as Mrs. Arthur MacArthur (uncredited)
- 1937 Nothing Sacred
as Mrs. Bullock (uncredited)
- 1937 She's No Lady
as Mrs. Douglas
- 1937 Thanks for Listening
as Lulu
- 1937 John Meade's Woman
as Mrs. Melton
- 1937 The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
as Lady Maria Frinton
- 1937 Criminal Lawyer
as Mrs. Manning (uncredited)
- 1936 Wanted: Jane Turner
as Norris' Secretary (uncredited)
- 1936 Piccadilly Jim
as Paducah Pomeroy
- 1936 The Unguarded Hour
as Diana Roggers
- 1936 Wife vs. Secretary
as Mrs. Anne Barker (uncredited)
- 1935 Vanessa: Her Love Story
as Herries Servant
- 1934 Sons of Steel
as Enid Chadburne
- 1934 Once to Every Bachelor
as Judy Bryant
- 1934 Jane Eyre
as Lady Blanche Ingram
- 1934 Love Past Thirty
as Caroline Burt
- 1933 By Appointment Only
as Diane Manners
- 1932 The Phantom of Crestwood
as Mrs. Walcott
- 1932 The Age of Consent
as Barbara
- 1932 Police Court
as Diana McCormick
- 1931 Convicted
as Claire Norville
- 1931 Murder at Midnight
as Esme Kennedy
- 1931 Subway Express
as Dale Tracy
- 1930 Soldiers and Women
as Brenda Ritchie
- 1930 Prince of Diamonds
as Eve Marley
- 1930 Puttin' on the Ritz
as Mrs. Teddy Van Rennsler
- 1929 Wall Street
as Ann Tabor
- 1929 Night Parade
as Paula Vernoff
- 1929 A Single Man
as Mary Hazeltine
- 1928 Dream of Love
as The Duchess
- 1928 The Baby Cyclone
as Lydia
- 1928 Beau Broadway
as Yvonne
- 1928 Wickedness Preferred
as Kitty Dare
- 1927 Tea For Three
as Doris Langford
- 1927 Body and Soul
as Hilda
- 1927
- 1926 Tin Gods
as Janet Stone
- 1926 The Great Deception
as Lois
- 1926 Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
as Estelle
- 1925 The Mystic
as Zara
- 1925 A Thief in Paradise
as Rosa Carmino
- 1925 Wildfire
as Claire Barrington
- 1925 Soul Mates
as Velma
- 1925 A Kiss in the Dark
as Janet Livingstone
- 1925 One Year to Live
as Elsie Duchanier
- 1924 The Wife of the Centaur
as Inez Martin
- 1924 His Hour
as Tamara Loraine
- 1924 True As Steel
as Mrs. Eva Boutelle
- 1924 Three Weeks
as The Queen
- 1924 Name the Man
as Isabelle
- 1923 In the Palace of the King
as Princess Eboli
- 1923 Don't Marry for Money
as Edith Martin
- 1923 Souls for Sale
as Lady Jane
- 1923 The Tiger's Claw
as Chameli Brentwood
- 1923 The Christian
as Lady Robert Ure
- 1922 The Strangers' Banquet
as Mrs. Schuyler-Peabody
- 1922 My American Wife
as Hortensia deVereta
- 1922 Oath-Bound
as Alice
- 1920 Stolen Moments
as Inez Salles
- 1920
- 1920 The Cost
as Olivia
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 1927
- 1925