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Aileen Pringle(1895-1989)

  • Actress
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Aileen Pringle
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."
BornJuly 23, 1895
DiedDecember 16, 1989(94)
BornJuly 23, 1895
DiedDecember 16, 1989(94)
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  • Awards
    • 1 win

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Conrad Nagel and Aileen Pringle in Three Weeks (1924)
Aileen Pringle in Adam and Evil (1927)
Nils Asther, Carmel Myers, Warner Oland, and Aileen Pringle in Dream of Love (1928)
John Gilbert and Aileen Pringle in His Hour (1924)
John Gilbert and Aileen Pringle in His Hour (1924)
John Gilbert and Aileen Pringle in His Hour (1924)
John Gilbert and Aileen Pringle in His Hour (1924)
Nils Asther, Warner Oland, and Aileen Pringle in Dream of Love (1928)
Aileen Pringle in Dream of Love (1928)
Aileen Pringle in The Mystic (1925)
Lew Cody, Marceline Day, Edward J. Nugent, Aileen Pringle, and Kathlyn Williams in A Single Man (1929)
Robert Bolder, Lew Cody, Marceline Day, Ruth Holly, Patsy Kelly, Aileen Manning, Edward J. Nugent, Aileen Pringle, and Kathlyn Williams in A Single Man (1929)

Known for

Joan Crawford, William Powell, and Robert Montgomery in The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
6.4
  • Lady Maria Frinton
  • 1937
Chester Conklin, Burr McIntosh, Aileen Pringle, and Lowell Sherman in The Wilderness Woman (1926)
The Wilderness Woman
7.2
  • Juneau MacLean
  • 1926
Grant Withers in Soldiers and Women (1930)
Soldiers and Women
  • Brenda Ritchie
  • 1930
Prince of Diamonds (1930)
Prince of Diamonds
5.6
  • Eve Marley
  • 1930

Credits

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Actress

  • Greer Garson and Florenz Ames in Telephone Time (1956)
    Telephone Time
    • TV Series
    • 1956
  • Kent Taylor in Boston Blackie (1951)
    Front Page Detective
    • Thelma Wayne
    • TV Series
    • 1951
  • Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews in Laura (1944)
    Laura
    • Woman (uncredited)
    • 1944
  • Sally Eilers, Ann Gillis, Elyse Knox, and Richard Lane in A Wave, a WAC and a Marine (1944)
    A Wave, a WAC and a Marine
    • Newswoman
    • 1944
  • Shirley Temple, Claudette Colbert, Joseph Cotten, and Jennifer Jones in Since You Went Away (1944)
    Since You Went Away
    • Woman at Cocktail Lounge (uncredited)
    • 1944
  • Don Ameche, Harry Carey, Frances Dee, Ann Rutherford, and Cara Williams in Happy Land (1943)
    Happy Land
    • Mrs. Prentiss (uncredited)
    • 1943
  • Donna Reed and Michael Duane in Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943)
    Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
    • Chaperon (uncredited)
    • 1943
  • William Powell, Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, and Virginia Weidler in The Youngest Profession (1943)
    The Youngest Profession
    • Miss Farwood (uncredited)
    • 1943
  • Diana Barrymore, John Boles, Walter Catlett, Robert Cummings, Andy Devine, and Kay Francis in Between Us Girls (1942)
    Between Us Girls
    • Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
    • 1942
  • Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn in They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
    They Died with Their Boots On
    • Mrs. Sharp (uncredited)
    • 1941
  • Charles Boyer and Margaret Sullavan in Appointment for Love (1941)
    Appointment for Love
    • Nurse Gibbons (uncredited)
    • 1941
  • Pat O'Brien, Olympe Bradna, and Roland Young in The Night of Nights (1939)
    The Night of Nights
    • Dress Saleslady (uncredited)
    • 1939
  • Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, and Norma Shearer in The Women (1939)
    The Women
    • Miss Carter - Saleslady (uncredited)
    • 1939
  • Warren Hull and Anne Nagel in Should a Girl Marry? (1939)
    Should a Girl Marry?
    • Mrs. White
    • 1939
  • Lew Ayres and Laraine Day in Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)
    Calling Dr. Kildare
    • Mrs. Thatcher (uncredited)
    • 1939

Personal details

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  • Alternative name
    • Aileen Savage
  • Height
    • 5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
  • Born
    • July 23, 1895
    • San Francisco, California, USA
  • Died
    • December 16, 1989
    • New York City, New York, USA(undisclosed)
  • Spouses
      James M. CainAugust 12, 1944 - September 4, 1946 (divorced)
  • Other works
    Spokeswoman for Lux toilet soap.
  • Publicity listings
    • 15 Articles
    • 2 Pictorials

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  • Trivia
    Greta Garbo was her tennis partner.
  • Quotes
    [her brief eulogy on the death of Mary Pickford in "Films in Review"] So, she was human after all!

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