Name
Aileen Pringle
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1895-07-23
Deathday
1989-12-16 (94 years old)
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
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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- 1929 A Single Man as Mary Hazeltine
- 1932 The Phantom of Crestwood as Mrs. Walcott
- 1931 Subway Express as Dale Tracy
- 1931 Convicted as Claire Norville
- 1924 The Wife of the Centaur as Inez Martin
- 1925 A Kiss in the Dark as Janet Livingstone
- 1934 Love Past Thirty as Caroline Burt
- 1939 The Night of Nights as Dress Saleslady (uncredited)
- 1937 Criminal Lawyer as Mrs. Manning (uncredited)
- 1931 Murder at Midnight as Esme Kennedy
- 1932 The Age of Consent as Barbara
- 1936 Piccadilly Jim as Paducah Pomeroy
- 1933 By Appointment Only as Diane Manners
- 1934 Jane Eyre as Lady Blanche Ingram
- 1936 The Unguarded Hour as Diana Roggers
- 1923 Don't Marry for Money as Edith Martin
- 1937 Thanks for Listening as Lulu
- 1937 John Meade's Woman as Mrs. Melton
- 1924 Name the Man as Isabelle
- 1930 Soldiers and Women as Brenda Ritchie
- 1934 Sons of Steel as Enid Chadburne
- 1937 She's No Lady as Mrs. Douglas
- 1923 The Christian as Lady Robert Ure
- 1924 Three Weeks as The Queen
- 1924 True As Steel as Mrs. Eva Boutelle
- 1925 A Thief in Paradise as Rosa Carmino
- 1928 Dream of Love as The Duchess
- 1929 Night Parade as Paula Vernoff
- 1923 Souls for Sale as Lady Jane
- 1922 The Strangers' Banquet as Mrs. Schuyler-Peabody
- 1920 Stolen Moments as Inez Salles
- 1936 Wanted: Jane Turner as Norris' Secretary (uncredited)
- 1920 Earthbound
- 1939 Calling Dr. Kildare as Mrs. Thatcher (uncredited)
- 1939 The Hardys Ride High as Miss Booth
- 1939 The Women as Miss Carter the Saleslady (uncredited)
- 1925 One Year to Live as Elsie Duchanier
- 1927 Body and Soul as Hilda
- 1939 Should a Girl Marry? as Mrs. White
- 1925 The Mystic as Zara
- 1944 Laura as Woman (uncredited)
- 1930 Puttin' on the Ritz as Mrs. Teddy Van Rennsler
- 1926 The Great Deception as Lois
- 1932 Police Court as Diana McCormick
- 1943 Happy Land as Mrs. Prentiss (uncredited)
- 1944 Since You Went Away as Woman at Cocktail Lounge (uncredited)
- 1942 Between Us Girls as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
- 1936 Wife vs. Secretary as Mrs. Anne Barker (uncredited)
- 1935 Vanessa: Her Love Story as Herries Servant
- 1937 Nothing Sacred as Mrs. Bullock (uncredited)
- 1941 They Died with Their Boots On as Mrs. Sharp (uncredited)
- 1941 Appointment for Love as Nurse Gibbons (uncredited)
- 1926 Tin Gods as Janet Stone
- 1927 Life in Hollywood No. 7 as Herself
- 1922 My American Wife as Hortensia deVereta
- 1929 Wall Street as Ann Tabor
- 1930 Prince of Diamonds as Eve Marley
- 1943 Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case as Chaperon (uncredited)
- 1928 The Baby Cyclone as Lydia
- 1926 Camille: The Fate of a Coquette as Estelle
- 1925 1925 Studio Tour as Self
- 1927 Adam and Evil
- 1924 His Hour as Tamara Loraine
- 1923 The Tiger's Claw as Chameli Brentwood
- 1937 The Last of Mrs. Cheyney as Lady Maria Frinton
- 1920 The Cost as Olivia
- 1928 Wickedness Preferred as Kitty Dare
- 1927 Tea For Three as Doris Langford
- 1928 Beau Broadway as Yvonne
- 1923 In the Palace of the King as Princess Eboli
- 1925 Soul Mates as Velma
- 1938 Too Hot to Handle as Mrs. Arthur MacArthur (uncredited)
- 1922 Oath-Bound as Alice
- Soon The Wilderness Woman as Juneau MacLean
- 1925 Wildfire as Claire Barrington
- 1934 Once to Every Bachelor as Judy Bryant
