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