Aileen Pringle
Biografia
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
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
Laura
Film • 1944
jako Woman (uncredited)
Since You Went Away
Film • 1944
jako Woman at Cocktail Lounge (uncredited)
Happy Land
Film • 1943
jako Mrs. Prentiss (uncredited)
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Film • 1943
jako Chaperon (uncredited)
Between Us Girls
Film • 1942
jako Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Umarli w butach
Film • 1941
jako Mrs. Sharp (uncredited)
Appointment for Love
Film • 1941
jako Nurse Gibbons (uncredited)
The Night of Nights
Film • 1939
jako Dress Saleslady (uncredited)
Kobiety
Film • 1939
jako Miss Carter the Saleslady (uncredited)
Should a Girl Marry?
Film • 1939
jako Mrs. White
Calling Dr. Kildare
Film • 1939
jako Mrs. Thatcher (uncredited)
The Hardys Ride High
Film • 1939
jako Miss Booth
Too Hot to Handle
Film • 1938
jako Mrs. Arthur MacArthur (uncredited)
Nothing Sacred
Film • 1937
jako Mrs. Bullock (uncredited)
She's No Lady
Film • 1937
jako Mrs. Douglas
Thanks for Listening
Film • 1937
jako Lulu
John Meade's Woman
Film • 1937
jako Mrs. Melton
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Film • 1937
jako Lady Maria Frinton
Criminal Lawyer
Film • 1937
jako Mrs. Manning (uncredited)
Wanted: Jane Turner
Film • 1936
jako Norris' Secretary (uncredited)
Piccadilly Jim
Film • 1936
jako Paducah Pomeroy
The Unguarded Hour
Film • 1936
jako Diana Roggers
Wife vs. Secretary
Film • 1936
jako Mrs. Anne Barker (uncredited)
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Film • 1935
jako Herries Servant
Sons of Steel
Film • 1934
jako Enid Chadburne
Once to Every Bachelor
Film • 1934
jako Judy Bryant
Jane Eyre
Film • 1934
jako Lady Blanche Ingram
Love Past Thirty
Film • 1934
jako Caroline Burt
By Appointment Only
Film • 1933
jako Diane Manners
The Phantom of Crestwood
Film • 1932
jako Mrs. Walcott
The Age of Consent
Film • 1932
jako Barbara
Police Court
Film • 1932
jako Diana McCormick
Convicted
Film • 1931
jako Claire Norville
Murder at Midnight
Film • 1931
jako Esme Kennedy
Subway Express
Film • 1931
jako Dale Tracy
Soldiers and Women
Film • 1930
jako Brenda Ritchie
Prince of Diamonds
Film • 1930
jako Eve Marley
Puttin' on the Ritz
Film • 1930
jako Mrs. Teddy Van Rennsler
Wall Street
Film • 1929
jako Ann Tabor
Night Parade
Film • 1929
jako Paula Vernoff
A Single Man
Film • 1929
jako Mary Hazeltine
Dream of Love
Film • 1928
jako The Duchess
The Baby Cyclone
Film • 1928
jako Lydia
Beau Broadway
Film • 1928
jako Yvonne
Wickedness Preferred
Film • 1928
jako Kitty Dare
Tea For Three
Film • 1927
jako Doris Langford
Body and Soul
Film • 1927
jako Hilda
Adam and Evil
Film • 1927
Life in Hollywood No. 7
Film • 1927
jako Herself
Tin Gods
Film • 1926
jako Janet Stone
The Great Deception
Film • 1926
jako Lois
Camille
Film • 1926
jako Estelle
The Mystic
Film • 1925
jako Zara
A Thief in Paradise
Film • 1925
jako Rosa Carmino
Wildfire
Film • 1925
jako Claire Barrington
Soul Mates
Film • 1925
jako Velma
1925 Studio Tour
Film • 1925
jako Self
A Kiss in the Dark
Film • 1925
jako Janet Livingstone
One Year to Live
Film • 1925
jako Elsie Duchanier
The Wife of the Centaur
Film • 1924
jako Inez Martin
His Hour
Film • 1924
jako Tamara Loraine
True As Steel
Film • 1924
jako Mrs. Eva Boutelle
Three Weeks
Film • 1924
jako The Queen
Name the Man
Film • 1924
jako Isabelle
In the Palace of the King
Film • 1923
jako Princess Eboli
Don't Marry for Money
Film • 1923
jako Edith Martin
Souls for Sale
Film • 1923
jako Lady Jane
The Tiger's Claw
Film • 1923
jako Chameli Brentwood
The Christian
Film • 1923
jako Lady Robert Ure
The Strangers' Banquet
Film • 1922
jako Mrs. Schuyler-Peabody
My American Wife
Film • 1922
jako Hortensia deVereta
Oath-Bound
Film • 1922
jako Alice
Stolen Moments
Film • 1920
jako Inez Salles
Earthbound
Film • 1920
The Cost
Film • 1920
jako Olivia
The Wilderness Woman
Film
jako Juneau MacLean