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