Cast

Aileen Pringle

Acting

Cast

Aileen Pringle

Known for

Acting

Born

1895-07-23

From

San Francisco, California, USA

Died

1989-12-16

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

Aileen Pringle

Aileen Pringle

Biography

Laura

The Women

They Died with Their Boots On

Wife vs. Secretary

Wildfire

My American Wife

Appointment for Love

Nothing Sacred

Oath-Bound

Souls for Sale

Criminal Lawyer

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

The Age of Consent

Once to Every Bachelor

The Phantom of Crestwood

Camille: The Fate of a Coquette

Jane Eyre

Since You Went Away

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

Name the Man

The Wilderness Woman

Love Past Thirty

Puttin' on the Ritz

Calling Dr. Kildare

The Hardys Ride High

A Kiss in the Dark

The Mystic

Life in Hollywood No. 7

Too Hot to Handle

Happy Land

The Unguarded Hour

Murder at Midnight

Vanessa: Her Love Story

The Night of Nights

Wanted: Jane Turner

The Wife of the Centaur

1925 Studio Tour

The Tiger's Claw

Soldiers and Women

Should a Girl Marry?

Convicted

His Hour

Between Us Girls

In the Palace of the King

Piccadilly Jim

Sons of Steel

Adam and Evil

Stolen Moments

Subway Express

One Year to Live

Three Weeks

Tin Gods

Tea For Three

The Great Deception

Police Court

She's No Lady

The Christian

Night Parade

A Single Man

Body and Soul

Wickedness Preferred

A Thief in Paradise

Earthbound

John Meade's Woman

Don't Marry for Money

Dream of Love

Wall Street

The Baby Cyclone

True As Steel

Beau Broadway

Thanks for Listening

The Cost

Soul Mates

Prince of Diamonds

The Strangers' Banquet

By Appointment Only