Nora Cecil

Nora Cecil

Nora Cecil in the 1933 film short, Nature in the Wrong
Born (1878-09-26)September 26, 1878
London, England, United Kingdom
Died May 1, 1951(1951-05-01) (aged 72)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation Actress
Years active 1915–47

Nora Cecil (September 20, 1878 – September 26, 1951) was an American character actress whose thirty year career spanned both the silent and sound film eras. She appeared in well over 100 feature films and film shorts.[1] Her 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.[2] In 1915 she would transition into films, her first appearance being in a starring role in The Arrival of Perpetua, directed by Émile Chautard.[3] She often played "thin-lipped, stern-visaged dowagers and forbidding mothers-in-law"[4] and "welfare workers, landladies, schoolmistresses and maiden aunts".[5]

One of the most significant roles was in the W.C. Fields vehicle, The Old Fashioned Way in 1934.[6] 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;[7] the 1939 version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, starring Mickey Rooney;[8] the John Ford classic, Stagecoach, with John Wayne.[9] Cecil's final acting performance was in a featured role in the classic Mourning Becomes Electra in 1947, starring Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, and Kirk Douglas.[10] Cecil died on May 1, 1951 in Los Angeles, California.[11]

Filmography (feature films)

(Per AFI database)[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Nora Cecil". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
  2. ↑ "The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast". Internet Broadway Database. Archived from the original on April 24, 2015. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
  3. ↑ "The Arrival of Perpetua: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on April 2, 2014. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
  4. ↑ IMDb Biography
  5. ↑ "Nora Cecil". AllMovie. Retrieved June 27, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Nora Cecil". AllMovie. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
  7. ↑ "The Merry Widow: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on April 2, 2014. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
  8. ↑ "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on March 29, 2014. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Stagecoach: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on April 17, 2015. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Mourning Becomes Electra: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on March 28, 2014. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Nora Cecil". Find a Grave. Archived from the original on May 22, 2015. Retrieved May 22, 2015.

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