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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 23, 1895
Died
December 16, 1989
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Also Known As
- Aileen Bisbee
Aileen Pringle
0.2 Popularity
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
Known For
7.6
Woman (uncredited)
Laura
1944
6.5
Woman at Cocktail Lounge (uncredited)
Since You Went Away
1944
6.2
Mrs. Prentiss (uncredited)
Happy Land
1943
5.5
Chaperon (uncredited)
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943
6.0
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Between Us Girls
1942
6.6
Mrs. Sharp (uncredited)
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
5.7
Nurse Gibbons (uncredited)
Appointment for Love
1941
0.0
Dress Saleslady (uncredited)
The Night of Nights
1939
7.1
Miss Carter the Saleslady (uncredited)
The Women
1939
3.5
Mrs. White
Should a Girl Marry?
1939
Credits
Laura
as Woman (uncredited)
1944
7.6
Since You Went Away
as Woman at Cocktail Lounge (uncredited)
1944
6.5
Happy Land
as Mrs. Prentiss (uncredited)
1943
6.2
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
as Chaperon (uncredited)
1943
5.5
Between Us Girls
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
1942
6.0
They Died with Their Boots On
as Mrs. Sharp (uncredited)
1941
6.6
Appointment for Love
as Nurse Gibbons (uncredited)
1941
5.7
The Night of Nights
as Dress Saleslady (uncredited)
1939
0.0
The Women
as Miss Carter the Saleslady (uncredited)
1939
7.1
Should a Girl Marry?
as Mrs. White
1939
3.5
Calling Dr. Kildare
as Mrs. Thatcher (uncredited)
1939
6.1
The Hardys Ride High
as Miss Booth
1939
5.8
Nothing Sacred
as Mrs. Bullock (uncredited)
1937
6.2
She's No Lady
as Mrs. Douglas
1937
0.0
🎬
Thanks for Listening
as Lulu
1937
2.0
John Meade's Woman
as Mrs. Melton
1937
0.0
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
as Lady Maria Frinton
1937
6.0
Criminal Lawyer
as Mrs. Manning (uncredited)
1937
5.9
Wanted: Jane Turner
as Norris' Secretary (uncredited)
1936
5.3
Piccadilly Jim
as Paducah Pomeroy
1936
6.5
The Unguarded Hour
as Diana Roggers
1936
6.2
Wife vs. Secretary
as Mrs. Anne Barker (uncredited)
1936
6.8
Vanessa: Her Love Story
as Herries Servant
1935
6.0
Sons of Steel
as Enid Chadburne
1934
5.0
Jane Eyre
as Lady Blanche Ingram
1934
4.9
🎬
Love Past Thirty
as Caroline Burt
1934
0.0
By Appointment Only
as Diane Manners
1933
5.8
The Phantom of Crestwood
as Mrs. Walcott
1932
6.0
The Age of Consent
as Barbara
1932
5.8
Police Court
as Diana McCormick
1932
5.0
Convicted
as Claire Norville
1931
4.5
Murder at Midnight
as Esme Kennedy
1931
5.4
Subway Express
as Dale Tracy
1931
0.0
Soldiers and Women
as Brenda Ritchie
1930
1.0
Prince of Diamonds
as Eve Marley
1930
5.0
Puttin' on the Ritz
as Mrs. Teddy Van Rennsler
1930
5.2
Wall Street
as Ann Tabor
1929
6.0
Night Parade
as Paula Vernoff
1929
3.5
A Single Man
as Mary Hazeltine
1929
0.0
Dream of Love
as The Duchess
1928
7.0
The Baby Cyclone
as Lydia
1928
0.0
Wickedness Preferred
as Kitty Dare
1928
0.0
Body and Soul
as Hilda
1927
0.0
🎬
Adam and Evil
1927
0.0
Life in Hollywood No. 7
as Herself
1927
0.0
Tin Gods
as Janet Stone
1926
0.0
The Great Deception
as Lois
1926
0.0
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
as Estelle
1926
4.0
The Mystic
as Zara
1925
6.6
A Thief in Paradise
as Rosa Carmino
1925
6.0
1925 Studio Tour
as Self
1925
6.2
A Kiss in the Dark
as Janet Livingstone
1925
0.0
🎬
One Year to Live
as Elsie Duchanier
1925
0.0
The Wife of the Centaur
as Inez Martin
1924
1.0
His Hour
as Tamara Loraine
1924
0.0
True As Steel
as Mrs. Eva Boutelle
1924
0.0
Three Weeks
as The Queen
1924
0.0
Name the Man
as Isabelle
1924
0.0
Don't Marry for Money
as Edith Martin
1923
0.0
Souls for Sale
as Lady Jane
1923
6.2
The Tiger's Claw
as Chameli Brentwood
1923
0.0
The Christian
as Lady Robert Ure
1923
0.0
My American Wife
as Hortensia deVereta
1922
0.0
The Strangers' Banquet
as Mrs. Schuyler-Peabody
1922
0.0
Stolen Moments
as Inez Salles
1920
3.7
Earthbound
1920
0.0
The Cost
as Olivia
1920
1.0