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Aileen Pringle‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1895-07-23

Popularity

star1.6

Aileen Pringle

San Francisco, California, USA

Aileen Pringle

San Francisco, California, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1895-07-23

Popularity

star1.6

Biography

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

Movie Credits

A Single Man

A Single Man‌
star0.0
calendar 1929

The Phantom of Crestwood

The Phantom of Crestwood‌
star6.0
calendar 1932

Subway Express

Subway Express‌
star0.0
calendar 1931

Convicted

Convicted‌
star4.5
calendar 1931

The Wife of the Centaur

The Wife of the Centaur‌
star1.0
calendar 1924

A Kiss in the Dark

A Kiss in the Dark‌
star0.0
calendar 1925

Love Past Thirty

Love Past Thirty‌
star0.0
calendar 1934

The Night of Nights

The Night of Nights‌
star0.0
calendar 1939

Criminal Lawyer

Criminal Lawyer‌
star5.9
calendar 1937

Murder at Midnight

Murder at Midnight‌
star5.4
calendar 1931

The Age of Consent

The Age of Consent‌
star5.8
calendar 1932

Piccadilly Jim

Piccadilly Jim‌
star6.5
calendar 1936

By Appointment Only

By Appointment Only‌
star5.8
calendar 1933

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre‌
star4.9
calendar 1934

The Unguarded Hour

The Unguarded Hour‌
star6.2
calendar 1936

Don't Marry for Money

Don't Marry for Money‌
star0.0
calendar 1923

Thanks for Listening

Thanks for Listening‌
star2.0
calendar 1937

John Meade's Woman

John Meade's Woman‌
star0.0
calendar 1937

Name the Man

Name the Man‌
star0.0
calendar 1924

Soldiers and Women

Soldiers and Women‌
star1.0
calendar 1930

Sons of Steel

Sons of Steel‌
star5.0
calendar 1934

She's No Lady

She's No Lady‌
star0.0
calendar 1937

The Christian

The Christian‌
star0.0
calendar 1923

Three Weeks

Three Weeks‌
star0.0
calendar 1924

True As Steel

True As Steel‌
star0.0
calendar 1924

A Thief in Paradise

A Thief in Paradise‌
star6.0
calendar 1925

Dream of Love

Dream of Love‌
star7.0
calendar 1928

Night Parade

Night Parade‌
star3.5
calendar 1929

Souls for Sale

Souls for Sale‌
star6.2
calendar 1923

The Strangers' Banquet

The Strangers' Banquet‌
star0.0
calendar 1922

Stolen Moments

Stolen Moments‌
star3.7
calendar 1920

Wanted: Jane Turner

Wanted: Jane Turner‌
star5.3
calendar 1936

Earthbound

Earthbound‌
star0.0
calendar 1920

The Hardys Ride High

The Hardys Ride High‌
star6.0
calendar 1939

Calling Dr. Kildare

Calling Dr. Kildare‌
star6.1
calendar 1939

The Women

The Women‌
star7.1
calendar 1939

One Year to Live

One Year to Live‌
star0.0
calendar 1925

Body and Soul

Body and Soul‌
star0.0
calendar 1927

Should a Girl Marry?

Should a Girl Marry?‌
star3.5
calendar 1939

The Mystic

The Mystic‌
star6.5
calendar 1925

Laura

Laura‌
star7.6
calendar 1944

Puttin' on the Ritz

Puttin' on the Ritz‌
star5.2
calendar 1930

The Great Deception

The Great Deception‌
star0.0
calendar 1926

Police Court

Police Court‌
star5.0
calendar 1932

Happy Land

Happy Land‌
star6.2
calendar 1943

Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away‌
star6.4
calendar 1944

Between Us Girls

Between Us Girls‌
star6.0
calendar 1942

Wife vs. Secretary

Wife vs. Secretary‌
star6.8
calendar 1936

Vanessa: Her Love Story

Vanessa: Her Love Story‌
star6.0
calendar 1935

Nothing Sacred

Nothing Sacred‌
star6.2
calendar 1937

They Died with Their Boots On

They Died with Their Boots On‌
star6.6
calendar 1941

Appointment for Love

Appointment for Love‌
star5.2
calendar 1941

Tin Gods

Tin Gods‌
star0.0
calendar 1926

Life in Hollywood No. 7

Life in Hollywood No. 7‌
star0.0
calendar 1927

My American Wife

My American Wife‌
star0.0
calendar 1922

Wall Street

Wall Street‌
star6.0
calendar 1929

Prince of Diamonds

Prince of Diamonds‌
star5.0
calendar 1930

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case‌
star5.5
calendar 1943

The Baby Cyclone

The Baby Cyclone‌
star0.0
calendar 1928

Camille: The Fate of a Coquette

Camille: The Fate of a Coquette‌
star4.0
calendar 1926

1925 Studio Tour

1925 Studio Tour‌
star6.2
calendar 1925

Adam and Evil

Adam and Evil‌
star0.0
calendar 1927

His Hour

His Hour‌
star0.0
calendar 1924

The Tiger's Claw

The Tiger's Claw‌
star0.0
calendar 1923

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney‌
star6.0
calendar 1937

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