Aileen Pringle
Born
July 23, 1895
Died
December 16, 1989 (94 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
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
Woman (uncredited)
1944
Since You Went Away
Woman at Cocktail Lounge (uncredited)
1944
Happy Land
Mrs. Prentiss (uncredited)
1943
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Chaperon (uncredited)
1943
Between Us Girls
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
1942
They Died with Their Boots On
Mrs. Sharp (uncredited)
1941
Appointment for Love
Nurse Gibbons (uncredited)
1941
The Night of Nights
Dress Saleslady (uncredited)
1939
The Women
Miss Carter the Saleslady (uncredited)
1939
Should a Girl Marry?
Mrs. White
1939
Calling Dr. Kildare
Mrs. Thatcher (uncredited)
1939
The Hardys Ride High
Miss Booth
1939
Nothing Sacred
Mrs. Bullock (uncredited)
1937
She's No Lady
Mrs. Douglas
1937
Thanks for Listening
Lulu
1937
John Meade's Woman
Mrs. Melton
1937
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Lady Maria Frinton
1937
Criminal Lawyer
Mrs. Manning (uncredited)
1937
Wanted: Jane Turner
Norris' Secretary (uncredited)
1936
Piccadilly Jim
Paducah Pomeroy
1936
The Unguarded Hour
Diana Roggers
1936
Wife vs. Secretary
Mrs. Anne Barker (uncredited)
1936
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Herries Servant
1935
Sons of Steel
Enid Chadburne
1934
Jane Eyre
Lady Blanche Ingram
1934
Love Past Thirty
Caroline Burt
1934
By Appointment Only
Diane Manners
1933
The Phantom of Crestwood
Mrs. Walcott
1932
The Age of Consent
Barbara
1932
Police Court
Diana McCormick
1932
Convicted
Claire Norville
1931
Murder at Midnight
Esme Kennedy
1931
Subway Express
Dale Tracy
1931
Soldiers and Women
Brenda Ritchie
1930
Prince of Diamonds
Eve Marley
1930
Puttin' on the Ritz
Mrs. Teddy Van Rennsler
1930
Wall Street
Ann Tabor
1929
Night Parade
Paula Vernoff
1929
A Single Man
Mary Hazeltine
1929
Dream of Love
The Duchess
1928
The Baby Cyclone
Lydia
1928
Wickedness Preferred
Kitty Dare
1928
Body and Soul
Hilda
1927
Adam and Evil
1927
Life in Hollywood No. 7
Herself
1927
Tin Gods
Janet Stone
1926
The Great Deception
Lois
1926
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
Estelle
1926
The Mystic
Zara
1925
A Thief in Paradise
Rosa Carmino
1925
1925 Studio Tour
Self
1925
A Kiss in the Dark
Janet Livingstone
1925
One Year to Live
Elsie Duchanier
1925
The Wife of the Centaur
Inez Martin
1924
His Hour
Tamara Loraine
1924
True As Steel
Mrs. Eva Boutelle
1924
Three Weeks
The Queen
1924
Name the Man
Isabelle
1924
Don't Marry for Money
Edith Martin
1923
Souls for Sale
Lady Jane
1923
The Tiger's Claw
Chameli Brentwood
1923
The Christian
Lady Robert Ure
1923
The Strangers' Banquet
Mrs. Schuyler-Peabody
1922
My American Wife
Hortensia deVereta
1922
Stolen Moments
Inez Salles
1920
Earthbound
1920
The Cost
Olivia
1920