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Aileen Pringle
Acting

Aileen Pringle
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1895-07-23,San Francisco, California, USA
Gender
Female
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

Filmography

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A Single Man
1929-01-12

The Phantom of Crestwood

6

The Phantom of Crestwood
1932-10-14

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Subway Express
1931-05-01

4.5

Convicted
1931-11-01

The Wife of the Centaur

1

The Wife of the Centaur
1924-12-01

A Kiss in the Dark

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A Kiss in the Dark
1925-04-06

Love Past Thirty

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Love Past Thirty
1934-02-14

The Night of Nights

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The Night of Nights
1939-12-01

Criminal Lawyer

5.9

Criminal Lawyer
1937-01-29

Murder at Midnight

5.4

Murder at Midnight
1931-09-01

The Age of Consent

5.8

The Age of Consent
1932-08-19

6.5

Piccadilly Jim
1936-08-14

By Appointment Only

5.8

By Appointment Only
1933-07-06

4.9

Jane Eyre
1934-08-15

The Unguarded Hour

6.2

The Unguarded Hour
1936-04-10

Don't Marry for Money

0

Don't Marry for Money
1923-08-19

Thanks for Listening

2

Thanks for Listening
1937-07-12

John Meade's Woman

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John Meade's Woman
1937-02-26

0

Name the Man
1924-01-27

Soldiers and Women

1

Soldiers and Women
1930-04-30

5

Sons of Steel
1934-12-14

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She's No Lady
1937-08-20

0

The Christian
1923-01-14

0

Three Weeks
1924-02-10

0

True As Steel
1924-04-20

A Thief in Paradise

6

A Thief in Paradise
1925-06-18

7

Dream of Love
1928-12-01

3.5

Night Parade
1929-10-27

6.2

Souls for Sale
1923-04-22

The Strangers' Banquet

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The Strangers' Banquet
1922-12-31

3.7

Stolen Moments
1920-12-08

Wanted: Jane Turner

5.3

Wanted: Jane Turner
1936-12-04

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Earthbound
1920-08-10

Calling Dr. Kildare

6.1

Calling Dr. Kildare
1939-04-28

The Hardys Ride High

6

The Hardys Ride High
1939-04-21

7

The Women
1939-09-01

One Year to Live

0

One Year to Live
1925-03-15

0

Body and Soul
1927-10-01

Should a Girl Marry?

3.5

Should a Girl Marry?
1939-06-07

6.5

The Mystic
1925-09-26

7.6

Laura
1944-10-11

Puttin' on the Ritz

5.2

Puttin' on the Ritz
1930-02-19

The Great Deception

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The Great Deception
1926-07-26

5

Police Court
1932-02-19

6.2

Happy Land
1943-11-10

Since You Went Away

6.4

Since You Went Away
1944-06-30

Between Us Girls

6

Between Us Girls
1942-09-04

Wife vs. Secretary

6.8

Wife vs. Secretary
1936-02-28

Vanessa: Her Love Story

6

Vanessa: Her Love Story
1935-03-01

6.2

Nothing Sacred
1937-11-25

They Died with Their Boots On

6.566

They Died with Their Boots On
1941-11-20

Appointment for Love

5.2

Appointment for Love
1941-10-31

0

Tin Gods
1926-09-19

Life in Hollywood No. 7

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Life in Hollywood No. 7
1927-08-25

My American Wife

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My American Wife
1922-12-31

6

Wall Street
1929-12-01

Prince of Diamonds

5

Prince of Diamonds
1930-03-26

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

5.5

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943-05-08

The Baby Cyclone

0

The Baby Cyclone
1928-09-26

Camille: The Fate of a Coquette

4

Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
1926-01-01

1925 Studio Tour

6.2

1925 Studio Tour
1925-04-09

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Adam and Evil
1927-08-27

0

His Hour
1924-09-29

The Tiger's Claw

0

The Tiger's Claw
1923-04-22

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

6

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937-02-19