Aileen Pringle
Known for Acting · 76 credits
- Born
- 1895-07-23
- Died
- 1989-12-16
- Place of birth
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Also known as
- Aileen Bisbee
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
Movies (76)
Wildfire
1925
as Claire Barrington
My American Wife
1922
as Hortensia deVereta
Laura
1944
as Woman (uncredited)
Appointment for Love
1941
as Nurse Gibbons (uncredited)
The Women
1939
as Miss Carter the Saleslady (uncredited)
Souls for Sale
1923
as Lady Jane
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943
as Chaperon (uncredited)
Wife vs. Secretary
1936
as Mrs. Anne Barker (uncredited)
Once to Every Bachelor
1934
as Judy Bryant
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
as Mrs. Sharp (uncredited)
Criminal Lawyer
1937
as Mrs. Manning (uncredited)
Oath-Bound
1922
as Alice
Name the Man
1924
as Isabelle
Vanessa: Her Love Story
1935
as Herries Servant
Calling Dr. Kildare
1939
as Mrs. Thatcher (uncredited)
The Hardys Ride High
1939
as Miss Booth
Piccadilly Jim
1936
as Paducah Pomeroy
Nothing Sacred
1937
as Mrs. Bullock (uncredited)
Jane Eyre
1934
as Lady Blanche Ingram
The Mystic
1925
as Zara
The Age of Consent
1932
as Barbara
Murder at Midnight
1931
as Esme Kennedy
Since You Went Away
1944
as Woman at Cocktail Lounge (uncredited)
Happy Land
1943
as Mrs. Prentiss (uncredited)
Dream of Love
1928
as The Duchess
Love Past Thirty
1934
as Caroline Burt
Wanted: Jane Turner
1936
as Norris' Secretary (uncredited)
The Unguarded Hour
1936
as Diana Roggers
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
1926
as Estelle
1925 Studio Tour
1925
as Self
Too Hot to Handle
1938
as Mrs. Arthur MacArthur (uncredited)
The Night of Nights
1939
as Dress Saleslady (uncredited)
The Phantom of Crestwood
1932
as Mrs. Walcott
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937
as Lady Maria Frinton
Night Parade
1929
as Paula Vernoff
Stolen Moments
1920
as Inez Salles
The Wilderness Woman
as Juneau MacLean
Sons of Steel
1934
as Enid Chadburne
She's No Lady
1937
as Mrs. Douglas
The Tiger's Claw
1923
as Chameli Brentwood
Convicted
1931
as Claire Norville
Soldiers and Women
1930
as Brenda Ritchie
John Meade's Woman
1937
as Mrs. Melton
Puttin' on the Ritz
1930
as Mrs. Teddy Van Rennsler
The Great Deception
1926
as Lois
One Year to Live
1925
as Elsie Duchanier
Police Court
1932
as Diana McCormick
Between Us Girls
1942
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Subway Express
1931
as Dale Tracy
Life in Hollywood No. 7
1927
as Herself
A Kiss in the Dark
1925
as Janet Livingstone
Tin Gods
1926
as Janet Stone
The Christian
1923
as Lady Robert Ure
His Hour
1924
as Tamara Loraine
Three Weeks
1924
as The Queen
In the Palace of the King
1923
as Princess Eboli
Thanks for Listening
1937
as Lulu
By Appointment Only
1933
as Diane Manners
Adam and Evil
1927
Don't Marry for Money
1923
as Edith Martin
Wall Street
1929
as Ann Tabor
Wickedness Preferred
1928
as Kitty Dare
True As Steel
1924
as Mrs. Eva Boutelle
Earthbound
1920
Body and Soul
1927
as Hilda
The Baby Cyclone
1928
as Lydia
Tea For Three
1927
as Doris Langford
A Single Man
1929
as Mary Hazeltine
A Thief in Paradise
1925
as Rosa Carmino
The Wife of the Centaur
1924
as Inez Martin
Should a Girl Marry?
1939
as Mrs. White
The Cost
1920
as Olivia
Beau Broadway
1928
as Yvonne
The Strangers' Banquet
1922
as Mrs. Schuyler-Peabody
Prince of Diamonds
1930
as Eve Marley
Soul Mates
1925
as Velma
About 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… With 76 credits spanning from 1920 to 1944, Aileen Pringle has appeared in 76 films and 0 TV shows.
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- Wildfire (1925) — as Claire Barrington
- My American Wife (1922) — as Hortensia deVereta
- Laura (1944) — as Woman (uncredited)
- Appointment for Love (1941) — as Nurse Gibbons (uncredited)
- The Women (1939) — as Miss Carter the Saleslady (uncredited)
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