Aileen Pringle
Acting
Born 1895-07-23
Died 1989-12-16
San Francisco, California, USA
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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
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Acting
59 credits
Laura
The Women
They Died with Their Boots On
Wildfire
Wife vs. Secretary
Nothing Sacred
Appointment for Love
Too Hot to Handle
Since You Went Away
Oath-Bound
My American Wife
Souls for Sale
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Between Us Girls
Jane Eyre
Criminal Lawyer
The Night of Nights
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
The Hardys Ride High
Happy Land
1925 Studio Tour
Calling Dr. Kildare
Wall Street
The Wilderness Woman
Once to Every Bachelor
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
The Mystic
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Name the Man
Love Past Thirty
Soldiers and Women
Should a Girl Marry?
Wanted: Jane Turner
Night Parade
Piccadilly Jim
The Baby Cyclone
Murder at Midnight
Tin Gods
The Strangers' Banquet
Three Weeks
Life in Hollywood No. 7
Police Court
Dream of Love
The Phantom of Crestwood
Sons of Steel
Puttin' on the Ritz
The Age of Consent
His Hour
Subway Express
True As Steel
By Appointment Only
The Tiger's Claw
The Christian
John Meade's Woman
A Single Man
She's No Lady
The Great Deception
The Unguarded Hour
The Cost
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