Nora Cecil

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nora Cecil (September 20, 1878 – May 1, 1951) was a British-American character actress whose 30-year career spanned both the silent and sound film eras. Cecil's career began on the stage, where she appeared in a single Broadway production, The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast, which ran for more than 240 performances at the Broadway Theatre in 1901-02. (A 1930 newspaper article says that Cecil "made her debut, three decades ago, on the London stage.") Cecil appeared in well over 100 feature films and film shorts. In 1915, she moved from the stage into films, her first appearance being in a starring role in The Arrival of Perpetua, directed by Émile Chautard. She often played "thin-lipped, stern-visaged dowagers and forbidding mothers-in-law" and "welfare workers, landladies, schoolmistresses and maiden aunts". One of the most significant roles was in the W.C. Fields vehicle, The Old Fashioned Way in 1934. Some of the other notable films in which Cecil appeared include: Ernst Lubitsch's historical romance, The Merry Widow, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald; the 1939 version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, starring Mickey Rooney; the John Ford classic, Stagecoach, with John Wayne. Her final acting performance was in a featured role in Mourning Becomes Electra in 1947, starring Rosalind Russell.

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1964
The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1947
Mourning Becomes Electra
Movie Louisa Ames
1947
The Sea of Grass
Movie Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
1946
Big Town
Movie Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
1946
The Missing Lady
Movie Miss Millie
1946
Two Sisters from Boston
Movie Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
1945
Lady on a Train
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1944
The Thin Man Goes Home
Movie Miss Peavy
1944
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Movie Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
1944
Hail the Conquering Hero
Movie Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
1943
The Unknown Guest
Movie Martha Williams
1942
I Married a Witch
Movie Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
1942
Apache Trail
Movie Passenger (uncredited)
1942
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Movie Miss Updike
1942
Obliging Young Lady
Movie Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
1941
Three Girls About Town
Movie Casket Customer