Nora Cecil
Nora Cecil | |
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Nora Cecil in the 1933 film short, Nature in the Wrong | |
Born |
London, England, United Kingdom | September 26, 1878
Died |
May 1, 1951 72) Los Angeles, California, United States | (aged
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1915–47 |
Nora Cecil (September 20, 1878 – September 26, 1951) was an American character actress whose 30-year career spanned both the silent and sound film eras.
Stage
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.[1] (A 1930 newspaper article says that Cecil "made her debut, three decades ago, on the London stage.")[2]
Film
Cecil appeared in well over 100 feature films and film shorts.[3]
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.[4] She often played "thin-lipped, stern-visaged dowagers and forbidding mothers-in-law"[5] and "welfare workers, landladies, schoolmistresses and maiden aunts".[6]
One of the most significant roles was in the W.C. Fields vehicle, The Old Fashioned Way in 1934.[7] 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;[8] the 1939 version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, starring Mickey Rooney;[9] the John Ford classic, Stagecoach, with John Wayne.[10] Cecil's final acting performance was in a featured role in the classic Mourning Becomes Electra in 1947, starring Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, and Kirk Douglas.[11]
Personal life
Cecil had a daughter, Dorothy Cecil, who was an actress.[2]
Death
Cecil died on May 1, 1951 in Los Angeles, California.[12]
Filmography (feature films)
- The Arrival of Perpetua (1915)
- Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915)
- The Wild Girl (1917) (as Norah Cecile)
- Royal Romance (1917)
- American Buds (1918)
- By Hook or Crook (1918)
- The Love Net (1918)
- The Zero Hour (1918)
- The Appearance of Evil (1918)
- The Power and the Glory (1918)
- Prunella (1918)
- Miss Crusoe (1919)
- Woman, Woman! (1919)
- The Daughter Pays (1920)
- Manslaughter (1922)
- Darwin Was Right (1924)
- The Deadwood Coach (1924)
- His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925)
- Chip of the Flying U (1926)
- Midnight Faces (1926)
- The Passionate Quest (1926)
- The Demi-Bride (1927)
- The Devil Dancer (1927)
- The Fortune Hunter (1927)
- Sensation Seekers (1927)
- The Silent Rider (1927)
- The Cavalier (1928)
- The Baby Cyclone (1928)
- Driftwood (1928)
- Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
- The Little Accident (1930)
- Only Saps Work (1930)
- Outward Bound (1930)
- Seven Days Leave (1930)
- Street Scene (1931)
- Caught Plastered (1931)
- The Ruling Voice (1931)
- Stepping Sisters (1932)
- Doctor Bull (1933)
- The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
- Peg O' My Heart (1933)
- Design for Living (1933)
- Laughing Boy (1934)
- The Old Fashioned Way (1934)
- You're Telling Me! (1934)
- Upperworld (1934)
- 6 Day Bike Rider (1934)
- Glamour (1934)
- Chained (1934)
- The Merry Widow (1934)
- Pursued (1934)
- Search for Beauty (1934)
- Once to Every Woman (1934)
- Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
- Collegiate (1935)
- Car 99 (1935)
- Way Down East (1935)
- Vagabond Lady (1935)
- Woman Wanted (1935)
- Grand Exit (1935)
- Dancing Pirate (1936)
- Poppy (1936)
- Fury (1936)
- Career Woman (1936)
- College Holiday (1936)
- Girl of the Ozarks (1936)
- Little Miss Nobody (1936)
- Laughing at Trouble (1936)
- We Went to College (1936)
- Nothing Sacred (1937)
- Champagne Waltz (1937)
- The Mighty Treve (1937)
- Easy Living (1937)
- Night of Mystery (1937)
- Blossoms on Broadway (1937)
- Borrowing Trouble (1937)
- She Asked for It (1937)
- Partners in Crime (1937)
- King of Alcatraz (1938)
- Mr. Boggs Steps Out (1938)
- International Settlement (1938)
- No Time to Marry (1938)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
- Stagecoach (1939)
- The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
- Union Pacific (1939)
- Saint Louis Blues (1939)
- What a Life (1939)
- Anne of Windy Poplars (1940)
- Lucky Partners (1940)
- Those Were the Days! (1940)
- The Captain Is a Lady (1940)
- Young People (1940)
- Queen of the Mob (1940)
- A Girl, a Guy and a Gob (1941)
- It Started with Eve (1941)
- Three Girls About Town (1941)
- Unexpected Uncle (1941)
- Little Men (1941)
- Apache Trail (1942)
- Call Out the Marines (1942)
- Daring Young Man (1942)
- I Married a Witch (1942)
- Jail House Blues (1942)
- Obliging Young Lady (1942)
- Tish (1942)
- The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)
- Unknown Guest (1943)
- The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
- Together Again (1944)
- The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
- Lady on a Train (1945)
- Molly and Me (1945)
- Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946)
- The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)
- The Missing Lady (1946)
- No Leave, No Love (1946)
- Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
- Hollywood Bound (1946)
- Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
- The Sea of Grass (1947)
References
- ↑ "The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast". Internet Broadway Database. Archived from the original on April 24, 2015. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
- 1 2 "Pianist Starts Music Dispute with Composer". Pennsylvania, Shamokin. Shamokin News-Dispatch. January 3, 1930. p. 3. Retrieved March 24, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 "Nora Cecil". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
- ↑ "The Arrival of Perpetua: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on April 2, 2014. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
- ↑ IMDb Biography
- ↑ "Nora Cecil". AllMovie. Retrieved June 27, 2015.
- ↑ "Nora Cecil". AllMovie. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
- ↑ "The Merry Widow: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on April 2, 2014. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
- ↑ "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on March 29, 2014. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
- ↑ "Stagecoach: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on April 17, 2015. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
- ↑ "Mourning Becomes Electra: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on March 28, 2014. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
- ↑ "Nora Cecil". Find a Grave. Archived from the original on May 22, 2015. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
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