Nora Cecil
Acting
- Born:
- 1878-09-24
- Died:
- 1951-05-01
- Place of birth:
- London, England, UK
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Known For
Filmography
The Big Parade of Comedy
Mourning Becomes Electra
The Sea of Grass
Big Town
The Missing Lady
Two Sisters from Boston
Lady on a Train
The Thin Man Goes Home
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Hail the Conquering Hero
The Unknown Guest
I Married a Witch
Apache Trail
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Obliging Young Lady
Three Girls About Town
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
The Bank Dick
Little Men
Young People
Lucky Partners
Those Were the Days!
What a Life
Some Like It Hot
Union Pacific
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Stagecoach
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
International Settlement
Borrowing Trouble
Nothing Sacred
Blossoms On Broadway
Partners in Crime
She Asked for It
Easy Living
Night of Mystery
Three Smart Boys
Night Must Fall
Champagne Waltz
The Mighty Treve
College Holiday
Laughing at Trouble
Under Your Spell
The Big Broadcast of 1937
Let's Make a Million
Girl of the Ozarks
Little Miss Nobody
Fury
Dancing Pirate
Two in the Dark
Collegiate
Way Down East
Slightly Static
Vagabond Lady
Gold Diggers of 1935
Car 99
Memories and Melodies
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
The Merry Widow
Opened by Mistake
The Spectacle Maker
Chained
One-Horse Farmers
Bachelor Bait
The Old-Fashioned Way
Upperworld
Laughing Boy
You're Telling Me!
Once to Every Woman
Mixed Nuts
Search for Beauty
Design for Living
Going Hollywood
Meet the Baron
Stage Mother
Doctor Bull
Hold Your Man
Peg o' My Heart
Nature in the Wrong
King of the Jungle
Fast Workers
Wreckety Wrecks
Asleep in the Feet
Mr. Bride
Hot Saturday
The Millionaire Cat
Girl Grief
Pack Up Your Troubles
Amateur Daddy
Young Bride
Arrowsmith
The Ruling Voice
Street Scene
Everything’s Rosie
East Lynne
Millie
Only Saps Work
Hell's Angels
Little Accident
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
Seven Days Leave
Footlights and Fools
Seven Footprints to Satan
The Cavalier
Driftwood
The Baby Cyclone
A Trick of Hearts
The Devil Dancer
Born to Battle
Too Many Crooks
Girls
Sensation Seekers
The Demi-Bride
The Fortune Hunter
The Silent Rider
Midnight Faces
Chip of the Flying U
Three Weeks in Paris
His Majesty, Bunker Bean
The Deadwood Coach
Darwin Was Right
The Town That Forgot God
Manslaughter
Timothy's Quest
Footfalls
The Daughter Pays
Red Foam
Woman, Woman!
Miss Crusoe
An Amateur Widow
Love Net
The Zero Hour
Appearance of Evil
By Hook or Crook
American Buds
Prunella
The Wild Girl
A Royal Romance
The Poor Little Rich Girl
Tillie Wakes Up
The Social Secretary
A Model Husband
The Arrival of Perpetua