Nora Cecil
Acting
Born 1878-09-24
Died 1951-05-01
London, England, UK
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Nora Cecil (September 20, 1878 – May 1, 1951) was a British-American character actress whose 30-year career spanned both the silent and sound film eras. Cecil's career began on the stage, where she appeared in a single Broadway production, The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast, which ran for more than 240 performances at the Broadway Theatre in 1901-02. (A 1930 newspaper article says that Cecil "made her debut, three decades ago, on the London stage.")
Cecil appeared in well over 100 feature films and film shorts.
In 1915, she moved from the stage into films, her first appearance being in a starring role in The Arrival of Perpetua, directed by Émile Chautard. She often played "thin-lipped, stern-visaged dowagers and forbidding mothers-in-law" and "welfare workers, landladies, schoolmistresses and maiden aunts".
One of the most significant roles was in the W.C. Fields vehicle, The Old Fashioned Way in 1934. Some of the other notable films in which Cecil appeared include: Ernst Lubitsch's historical romance, The Merry Widow, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald; the 1939 version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, starring Mickey Rooney; the John Ford classic, Stagecoach, with John Wayne.
Her final acting performance was in a featured role in Mourning Becomes Electra in 1947, starring Rosalind Russell.
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Acting
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Stagecoach
Union Pacific
I Married a Witch
Hell's Angels
Fury
Easy Living
The Bank Dick
Bachelor Bait
Woman, Woman!
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Design for Living
Nothing Sacred
Pack Up Your Troubles
Hail the Conquering Hero
The Merry Widow
The Sea of Grass
Young People
Two Sisters from Boston
Obliging Young Lady
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Chained
Collegiate
The Thin Man Goes Home
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
The Big Parade of Comedy
Girl Grief
Mourning Becomes Electra
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Stage Mother
Amateur Daddy
Way Down East
Miss Crusoe
Mixed Nuts
Dancing Pirate
You're Telling Me!
College Holiday
Meet the Baron
Fast Workers
Street Scene
Hold Your Man
Arrowsmith
Apache Trail
A Model Husband
Some Like It Hot
Two in the Dark
Under Your Spell
Only Saps Work
Manslaughter
International Settlement
Little Men
Champagne Waltz
The Missing Lady
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
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