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.
Known for
Credits
Stagecoach (1939)
as Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
Woman, Woman! (1919)
as Mrs. Lindsay
Girl Grief (1932)
as Miss Tuttle, Principal
Young People (1940)
as Righteous Old Lady (uncredited)
Miss Crusoe (1919)
as Miss Meeker (uncredited)
Bachelor Bait (1934)
as Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
Mixed Nuts (1934)
as Mrs. Twitchett
Design for Living (1933)
as Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
The Merry Widow (1934)
as Animal Woman (uncredited)
Footfalls (1921)
Actor
Wreckety Wrecks (1933)
as Miss Winterbottom
You're Telling Me! (1934)
as Mrs. Price
The Sea of Grass (1947)
as Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
I Married a Witch (1942)
as Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
Hell's Angels (1930)
as Helen's Maid (uncredited)
Union Pacific (1939)
as Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
A Model Husband (1916)
as Mrs Gossip
The Unknown Guest (1943)
as Martha Williams
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
as Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
Chained (1934)
as Edith (uncredited)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
as Miss Jenkins
Prunella (1918)
Actor
Obliging Young Lady (1942)
as Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
Collegiate (1935)
as Miss Curtiss
The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
as Miss Peavy
Night of Mystery (1937)
Actor
Amateur Daddy (1932)
as Saleslady
Fury (1936)
as Albert's Mother (uncredited)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)
as Missionary
The Demi-Bride (1927)
as School Teacher
Lady on a Train (1945)
Actor
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
as Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
Opened by Mistake (1934)
as Head Nurse
Footlights and Fools (1929)
as (uncredited)
Darwin Was Right (1924)
as Aunt Priscilla
International Settlement (1938)
as English Woman
Three Weeks in Paris (1925)
Actor
Easy Living (1937)
as Miss Swerf
The Missing Lady (1946)
as Miss Millie
Nothing Sacred (1937)
as Schoolteacher (uncredited)
The Arrival of Perpetua (1915)
as Abigail Majendrie
The Old-Fashioned Way (1934)
as Mrs. Wendelschaffer
An Amateur Widow (1919)
Actor
Lucky Partners (1940)
as Women's Club President (uncredited)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
as Louisa Ames
The Bank Dick (1940)
as Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
Street Scene (1931)
as Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
Little Miss Nobody (1936)
as Mrs. Robinson
Night Must Fall (1937)
Actor
Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
as Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)
as Miss Updike
Dancing Pirate (1936)
as Landlady (uncredited)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Girls (1927)
as Matron Helen Hunt
Going Hollywood (1933)
as Briarcroft's Teacher
Way Down East (1935)
as Townswoman at Party
Some Like It Hot (1939)
as Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
Apache Trail (1942)
as Passenger (uncredited)
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
as Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
Love Net (1918)
as Miss Prudence Tilly
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
as Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
as One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
The Zero Hour (1918)
as Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)
Little Men (1940)
as Head of Orphanage
Little Accident (1930)
as Dr. Zernecke
The Social Secretary (1916)
as Spinster (uncredited)
Appearance of Evil (1918)
as Miss Spurgeon
Millie (1931)
as Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
Doctor Bull (1933)
as Aunt Emily Banning
Three Girls About Town (1941)
as Casket Customer
Search for Beauty (1934)
as Miss Pettigrew
The Wild Girl (1917)
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Arrowsmith (1931)
as Nurse (uncredited)
The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)
as Home Economics Woman
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941)
as Charwoman
Peg o' My Heart (1933)
as Smythe (maid)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
as Housekeeper (uncredited)
Two in the Dark (1936)
as Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)
Girl of the Ozarks (1936)
as Miss Trent
Vagabond Lady (1935)
as Miss Perkins (uncredited)
Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)
as Ship's Matron (uncredited)
The Devil Dancer (1927)
as Julia
Fast Workers (1933)
as Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
By Hook or Crook (1918)
as Aunt Marie
The Town That Forgot God (1922)
as (uncredited)
Meet the Baron (1933)
as Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
Hot Saturday (1932)
as Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
Laughing at Trouble (1936)
as Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman
Once to Every Woman (1934)
as Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited)
Partners in Crime (1937)
as Housekeeper
Hold Your Man (1933)
as Miss Campbell (uncredited)
Under Your Spell (1936)
as School Teacher (uncredited)
Those Were the Days! (1940)
as Mrs. Moffett
Stage Mother (1933)
as Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
as Old Witch
Seven Days Leave (1930)
as Amelia Twymley
East Lynne (1931)
as Charity Bazaar Committee
Tillie Wakes Up (1917)
as Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken
College Holiday (1936)
as Miss Elkins (uncredited)
Manslaughter (1922)
as Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930)
Actor
Only Saps Work (1930)
as Mrs. Partridge (uncredited)
Car 99 (1935)
as Granny Adams
King of the Jungle (1933)
as Spinster in park (uncredited)
Upperworld (1934)
as Stream's Housekeeper (uncredited)
Sensation Seekers (1927)
as Mrs. Lodge
The Mighty Treve (1937)
as Old Maid at Dog Show
Champagne Waltz (1937)
as Train Passenger
The Millionaire Cat (1932)
as Aunt Mathilda
The Baby Cyclone (1928)
as Mrs. Crandall
Young Bride (1932)
as Landlady (uncredited)
What a Life (1939)
as Miss Eggleston
The Spectacle Maker (1934)
as Duchess
Blossoms On Broadway (1937)
as Leader of Committee (uncredited)
Mr. Bride (1932)
as Mrs. Cecil
Let's Make a Million (1936)
Actor
Laughing Boy (1934)
as Schoolteacher
A Royal Romance (1917)
as Miss McPherson
Three Smart Boys (1937)
as Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
Mr. Boggs Steps Out (1938)
as Widow Peddie
Big Town (1946)
as Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925)
as Countess Casanova
Borrowing Trouble (1937)
as Dressmaker
Born to Battle (1927)
as Ma Cowan
Too Many Crooks (1927)
as (uncredited)
She Asked for It (1937)
as Elderly lady (uncredited)
One-Horse Farmers (1934)
as Subway Passenger (uncredited)
Memories and Melodies (1935)
as Customer (uncredited)
The Daughter Pays (1920)
Actor
Driftwood (1928)
as Mrs. Prouty
Chip of the Flying U (1926)
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
Slightly Static (1935)
as Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
Asleep in the Feet (1933)
as Female Police Officer
The Cavalier (1928)
as Lucia's Aunt
The Ruling Voice (1931)
as Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)
The Fortune Hunter (1927)
as Betty Carpenter
Everything’s Rosie (1931)
as Hotel Proprietress
Red Foam (1920)
Actor
A Trick of Hearts (1928)
as The Mayor
Nature in the Wrong (1933)
as Muriel's mother
The Silent Rider (1927)
as Mrs. Randall
Timothy's Quest (1922)
as Townswoman
American Buds (1918)
as Emily
The Deadwood Coach (1924)
as Matilda Shields - in play
Midnight Faces (1926)
as Mrs. Hart