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