Aileen Pringle

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Aileen Pringle

Acting July 23, 1895

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 conv…

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Laura

Laura

7.6 1944 Movie
The Women

The Women

7.2 1939 Movie
They Died with Their Boots On

They Died with Their Boots On

6.7 1941 Movie
Nothing Sacred

Nothing Sacred

6.3 1937 Movie
Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away

6.6 1944 Movie
Wife vs. Secretary

Wife vs. Secretary

6.7 1936 Movie
Too Hot to Handle

Too Hot to Handle

6.0 1938 Movie
Souls for Sale

Souls for Sale

6.3 1923 Movie
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

5.9 1937 Movie
The Phantom of Crestwood

The Phantom of Crestwood

5.9 1932 Movie
1925 Studio Tour

1925 Studio Tour

6.3 1925 Movie
The Mystic

The Mystic

6.7 1925 Movie

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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

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  1. 1944
    Laura

    Movie Woman (uncredited)

  2. 1944
    Since You Went Away

    Movie Woman at Cocktail Lounge (uncredited)

  3. 1943
    Happy Land

    Movie Mrs. Prentiss (uncredited)

  4. 1943
    Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

    Movie Chaperon (uncredited)

  5. 1942
    Between Us Girls

    Movie Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

  6. 1941
    They Died with Their Boots On

    Movie Mrs. Sharp (uncredited)

  7. 1941
    Appointment for Love

    Movie Nurse Gibbons (uncredited)

  8. 1939
    The Night of Nights

    Movie Dress Saleslady (uncredited)

  9. 1939
    The Women

    Movie Miss Carter the Saleslady (uncredited)

  10. 1939
    Should a Girl Marry?

    Movie Mrs. White

  11. 1939
    Calling Dr. Kildare

    Movie Mrs. Thatcher (uncredited)

  12. 1939
    The Hardys Ride High

    Movie Miss Booth

  13. 1938
    Too Hot to Handle

    Movie Mrs. Arthur MacArthur (uncredited)

  14. 1937
    Nothing Sacred

    Movie Mrs. Bullock (uncredited)

  15. 1937
    She's No Lady

    Movie Mrs. Douglas

  16. 1937
    Thanks for Listening

    Movie Lulu

More credits
  1. 1937
    John Meade's Woman

    Movie Mrs. Melton

  2. 1937
    The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

    Movie Lady Maria Frinton

  3. 1937
    Criminal Lawyer

    Movie Mrs. Manning (uncredited)

  4. 1936
    Wanted: Jane Turner

    Movie Norris' Secretary (uncredited)

  5. 1936
    Piccadilly Jim

    Movie Paducah Pomeroy

  6. 1936
    The Unguarded Hour

    Movie Diana Roggers

  7. 1936
    Wife vs. Secretary

    Movie Mrs. Anne Barker (uncredited)

  8. 1935
    Vanessa: Her Love Story

    Movie Herries Servant

  9. 1934
    Sons of Steel

    Movie Enid Chadburne

  10. 1934
    Once to Every Bachelor

    Movie Judy Bryant

  11. 1934
    Jane Eyre

    Movie Lady Blanche Ingram

  12. 1934
    Love Past Thirty

    Movie Caroline Burt

  13. 1933
    By Appointment Only

    Movie Diane Manners

  14. 1932
    The Phantom of Crestwood

    Movie Mrs. Walcott

  15. 1932
    The Age of Consent

    Movie Barbara

  16. 1932
    Police Court

    Movie Diana McCormick

  17. 1931
    Convicted

    Movie Claire Norville

  18. 1931
    Murder at Midnight

    Movie Esme Kennedy

  19. 1931
    Subway Express

    Movie Dale Tracy

  20. 1930
    Soldiers and Women

    Movie Brenda Ritchie

  21. 1930
    Prince of Diamonds

    Movie Eve Marley

  22. 1930
    Puttin' on the Ritz

    Movie Mrs. Teddy Van Rennsler

  23. 1929
    Wall Street

    Movie Ann Tabor

  24. 1929
    Night Parade

    Movie Paula Vernoff