Aileen Pringle
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Aileen Pringle was an American stage and film actress during the silent film
era.
family and educated in Europe, Pringle began her acting career shortly after her 1916 marriage to Charles McKenzie Pringle, the son of a wealthy titled British Jamaican landowner and a member of the Privy and Legislative Councils of Jamaica.
film Stolen Moments
(1920). Many of Pringle's early roles were only modestly successful, and she continued to build her career until the early 1920s when she was selected by her friend, the romance novelist Elinor Glyn
to star in the 1924 film adaptation of her novel Three Weeks
opposite matinee idol Conrad Nagel
. The role catapulted Pringle into leading-lady status and her career began to build momentum.
. The event was to be a birthday party organized by Hearst for film producer and director Thomas Ince
.
Other prominent guests aboard The Oneida included columnist Louella Parsons
, actor Charlie Chaplin
, actress Marion Davies
(who was also Hearst's lover) and actresses Seena Owen
, Jacqueline Logan
and Julanne Johnston
.
At dinner that Sunday night, the group celebrated Ince's 42nd birthday. Early Monday morning, Ince was taken from the yacht by water taxi and brought ashore, accompanied by Dr. Goodman a licensed, though non-practicing, physician. By Tuesday night, Thomas Ince was dead.
Although the mysterious death of Thomas Ince was ruled to have been caused by a gastro-intestinal illness, the press frenzy that followed turned the event into a Hollywood legend; with various enigmatic and lurid stories being proffered by gossips. Among these, was a story of Hearst accidentally shooting Ince while aiming for Chaplin, who he believed to be having an affair with Marion Davies. Pringle's career weathered the controversy.
with physical violence after he was instructed in a scene to carry her. Pringle's apparent disdain for her profession began to hurt her career, and by the late 1920s her roles became fewer.
Although disliked by some Hollywood insiders, Aileen Pringle was often dubbed by the press as the "Darling of the Intelligentsia" because of her close friendship with such literary figures as Carl Van Vechten
, Joseph Hergesheimer
, Rupert Hughes
, and H. L. Mencken
who became a life-long friend of the actress. Ralph Barton
, American artist, was also a devoted friend and used her as the model for Dorothy in his illustrations for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
by Anita Loos
.
Another admirer was George Gershwin
who met her in Hollywood and wrote much of the Second Rhapsody
at her Santa Monica, California home. Her wit, keen intellect and sparkling personality made her a sought-after companion.
After her 1926 divorce from Charles Pringle, Aileen Pringle further focused on her acting career, including Dream of Love
(1928) with Joan Crawford
and Wall Street
(1929) co-starring Ralph Ince
, brother of Thomas Ince. However, with the advent of talkies, the studios began heavily promoting a new crop of starlets and Pringle's career faded.
During the sound era, she continued to take small parts in major films and even uncredited roles. In 1944 Pringle married the author, James M. Cain
, but the union lasted only two years and ended in divorce. By the late 1940s, Pringle retired from the screen and lived a wealthy retirement in New York City
, where she died in 1989 at the age of 94.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Aileen Pringle was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
at 6723 Hollywood Blvd., in Los Angeles, California
.
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
era.
Early life
Born Aileen Bisbee into a prominent and wealthy San Francisco, CaliforniaCalifornia
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
family and educated in Europe, Pringle began her acting career shortly after her 1916 marriage to Charles McKenzie Pringle, the son of a wealthy titled British Jamaican landowner and a member of the Privy and Legislative Councils of Jamaica.
Career rise
One of Pringle's first high-profile roles was in the Rudolph ValentinoRudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino was an Italian actor, and early pop icon. A sex symbol of the 1920s, Valentino was known as the "Latin Lover". He starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle and Son of the Sheik...
film Stolen Moments
Stolen Moments (1920 film)
Stolen Moments is a silent movie starring Rudolph Valentino and Marguerite Namara. It was released in December 1920, just a few months before Valentino was elevated to stardom by his performance in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse...
(1920). Many of Pringle's early roles were only modestly successful, and she continued to build her career until the early 1920s when she was selected by her friend, the romance novelist Elinor Glyn
Elinor Glyn
Elinor Glyn , born Elinor Sutherland, was a British novelist and scriptwriter who pioneered mass-market women's erotic fiction. She popularized the concept It...
to star in the 1924 film adaptation of her novel Three Weeks
Three Weeks (film)
Three Weeks is a 1924 drama film directed by Alan Crosland. The movie is based on the novel by Elinor Glyn. Currently a lost film, FIAF database indicates a print is preserved by Russia's Gosfilmofond....
opposite matinee idol Conrad Nagel
Conrad Nagel
Conrad Nagel was an American screen actor and matinee idol of the silent film era and beyond. He was also a well-known television actor and radio performer.-Biography:...
. The role catapulted Pringle into leading-lady status and her career began to build momentum.
Scandal
One small set-back occurred on November 15, 1924 when Aileen Pringle was among a select group of Hollywood elites who boarded a yacht in San Pedro, California called The Oneida owned by newspaper scion and billionaire William Randolph HearstWilliam Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst was an American business magnate and leading newspaper publisher. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887, after taking control of The San Francisco Examiner from his father...
. The event was to be a birthday party organized by Hearst for film producer and director Thomas Ince
Thomas H. Ince
Thomas Harper Ince was an American silent film actor, director, screenwriter and producer of more than 100 films and pioneering studio mogul. Known as the "Father of the Western", he invented many mechanisms of professional movie production, introducing early Hollywood to the "assembly line"...
.
Other prominent guests aboard The Oneida included columnist Louella Parsons
Louella Parsons
Louella Parsons was the first American news-writer movie columnist in the United States. She was a gossip columnist who, for many years, was an influential arbiter of Hollywood mores, often feared and hated by the individuals, mostly actors, whose careers she could negatively impact via her...
, actor Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
, actress Marion Davies
Marion Davies
Marion Davies was an American film actress. Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, as her high-profile social life often obscured her professional career....
(who was also Hearst's lover) and actresses Seena Owen
Seena Owen
Seena Owen was a Danish-American silent film actress.-Early Life:She was born Signe M. Auen at Spokane, Washington, the youngest of three children raised by Jens Christensen and Karen Auen. Her father and mother came from Denmark in the late 1880s and settled in Minnesota where they married in 1888...
, Jacqueline Logan
Jacqueline Logan
Jacqueline Logan was a star of the silent motion picture screen who was on board William Randolph Hearst's yacht The Oneida in 1924 when film director Thomas Ince died. The young actress was under contract to Ince at the time. Logan was a WAMPAS Baby Star of 1922. She was born in Corsicana, Texas...
and Julanne Johnston
Julanne Johnston
Julanne Johnston was an American silent film actress born in Indianapolis, Indiana.Johnston is known for being on William Randolph Hearst's yacht The Oneida during the weekend in November 1924 when film director and producer Thomas Ince later died of heart failure...
.
At dinner that Sunday night, the group celebrated Ince's 42nd birthday. Early Monday morning, Ince was taken from the yacht by water taxi and brought ashore, accompanied by Dr. Goodman a licensed, though non-practicing, physician. By Tuesday night, Thomas Ince was dead.
Although the mysterious death of Thomas Ince was ruled to have been caused by a gastro-intestinal illness, the press frenzy that followed turned the event into a Hollywood legend; with various enigmatic and lurid stories being proffered by gossips. Among these, was a story of Hearst accidentally shooting Ince while aiming for Chaplin, who he believed to be having an affair with Marion Davies. Pringle's career weathered the controversy.
Later career
Pringle's acting career continued throughout the early 1920s, however, she was allegedly disliked by many of her co-workers for her apparently haughty and dismissive behavior. At one point she allegedly threatened actor Conrad NagelConrad Nagel
Conrad Nagel was an American screen actor and matinee idol of the silent film era and beyond. He was also a well-known television actor and radio performer.-Biography:...
with physical violence after he was instructed in a scene to carry her. Pringle's apparent disdain for her profession began to hurt her career, and by the late 1920s her roles became fewer.
Although disliked by some Hollywood insiders, Aileen Pringle was often dubbed by the press as the "Darling of the Intelligentsia" because of her close friendship with such literary figures as Carl Van Vechten
Carl van Vechten
Carl Van Vechten was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.-Biography:...
, Joseph Hergesheimer
Joseph Hergesheimer
Joseph Hergesheimer was a prominent American writer of the early 20th century known for his naturalistic novels of decadent life amongst the very wealthy.-Biography:...
, Rupert Hughes
Rupert Hughes
Rupert Hughes was an American historian, novelist, film director and composer based in Hollywood. Hughes was born in Lancaster, Missouri. His parents were Felix Turner Hughes and Jean Amelia Summerlin, who were married in 1865. His brother Howard R. Hughes, Sr., co-founded the Hughes Tool Company....
, and H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the...
who became a life-long friend of the actress. Ralph Barton
Ralph Barton
Ralph Barton was an American artist best known for his cartoons and caricatures of actors and other celebrities...
, American artist, was also a devoted friend and used her as the model for Dorothy in his illustrations for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (novel)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady is a comic novel written by Anita Loos first published in 1925. Loos was inspired to write the book after watching a sexy blonde turn intellectual H. L. Mencken into a lovestruck schoolboy. Mencken, a close friend, actually...
by Anita Loos
Anita Loos
Anita Loos was an American screenwriter, playwright and author.-Early life:Born Corinne Anita Loos in Sisson, California , where her father, R. Beers Loos, had opened a tabloid newspaper for which her mother, Minerva "Minnie" Smith did most of the work of a newspaper publisher...
.
Another admirer was George Gershwin
George Gershwin
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
who met her in Hollywood and wrote much of the Second Rhapsody
Second Rhapsody
Second Rhapsody is a concert piece for orchestra with piano by American composer George Gershwin, written in 1931. It is commonly referred to by its original title, Rhapsody in Rivets....
at her Santa Monica, California home. Her wit, keen intellect and sparkling personality made her a sought-after companion.
After her 1926 divorce from Charles Pringle, Aileen Pringle further focused on her acting career, including Dream of Love
Dream of Love
Dream of Love is a 1928 MGM silent film, directed by Fred Niblo, and starring Joan Crawford and Nils Asther. The film is based on the play Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé. In the film, Asther plays Prince Maurice de Saxe and Crawford plays Adrienne Lecouvreur, a Gypsy...
(1928) with Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford , born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre....
and Wall Street
Wall Street (1929 film)
Wall Street was a drama film released on December 1, 1929 and was produced by Harry Cohn, directed by Roy William Neill, and starred Ralph Ince, Aileen Pringle, Sam De Grasse, Philip Strange, and Freddie Burke Frederick.synopsis...
(1929) co-starring Ralph Ince
Ralph Ince
Ralph Ince , was an American film director, actor and screenwriter of the silent era. He directed 171 films between 1910 and 1937. He also appeared in 110 films between 1907 and 1937....
, brother of Thomas Ince. However, with the advent of talkies, the studios began heavily promoting a new crop of starlets and Pringle's career faded.
During the sound era, she continued to take small parts in major films and even uncredited roles. In 1944 Pringle married the author, James M. Cain
James M. Cain
James Mallahan Cain was an American author and journalist. Although Cain himself vehemently opposed labeling, he is usually associated with the hardboiled school of American crime fiction and seen as one of the creators of the roman noir...
, but the union lasted only two years and ended in divorce. By the late 1940s, Pringle retired from the screen and lived a wealthy retirement in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, where she died in 1989 at the age of 94.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Aileen Pringle was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Walk of Fame consists of more than 2,400 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along fifteen blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California...
at 6723 Hollywood Blvd., in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | The Cost | Olivia | as Aileen Savage |
| The Sport of Kings | as Aileen Savage | ||
| Earthbound | as Aileen Savage | ||
| Stolen Moments Stolen Moments (1920 film) Stolen Moments is a silent movie starring Rudolph Valentino and Marguerite Namara. It was released in December 1920, just a few months before Valentino was elevated to stardom by his performance in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse... |
Inez Salles | as Aileen Savage Short film; Extant |
|
| 1922 | Oath-Bound | Alice | |
| The Strangers' Banquet | Mrs. Schuyler-Peabody | ||
| My American Wife My American Wife My American Wife is a 1922 silent drama film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gloria Swanson. The film is considered to be lost, since no prints seem to have survived.-Cast:* Gloria Swanson - Natalie Chester* Antonio Moreno - Manuel La Tessa... |
Hortensia deVereta | Lost film | |
| 1923 | The Christian The Christian (1923 film) The Christian is a silent film drama, released by Goldwyn Pictures, directed by Maurice Tourneur, and starring Richard Dix and Mae Busch.-Production background:... |
Lady Robert Ure | Lost film |
| The Tiger's Claw | Chameli Brentwood | ||
| Souls for Sale Souls for Sale Souls for Sale is a silent film written, directed, and produced by Rupert Hughes from his novel of the same name. The film featured Eleanor Boardman in her first leading role, having won a contract with Goldwyn Studios through their "New Faces of 1921" contest just two years prior.The film is most... |
Lady Jane | Extant(Turner/Warner Brothers) | |
| Don't Marry for Money | Edith Martin | ||
| In the Palace of the King In the Palace of the King In the Palace of the King is a 1923 silent film historical drama based on the novel by F. Marion Crawford and was directed by Emmett J. Flynn. A previous silent version had been made and released in 1915 by the Essanay company. Prior to the films the story saw Broadway in a 1900 production... |
Princess Eboli | Lost film | |
| 1924 | Name the Man | Isabelle | |
| Three Weeks Three Weeks (film) Three Weeks is a 1924 drama film directed by Alan Crosland. The movie is based on the novel by Elinor Glyn. Currently a lost film, FIAF database indicates a print is preserved by Russia's Gosfilmofond.... |
The Queen | ||
| True As Steel | Mrs. Eva Boutelle | ||
| His Hour His Hour His Hour is a 1924 silent drama film directed by King Vidor.This film was the follow-up to Samuel Goldwyn's Three Weeks, written by Elinor Glyn, and starring Aileen Pringle, one of the biggest moneymakers at the time of the amalgamation... |
Tamara Loraine | Extant | |
| The Wife of the Centaur The Wife of the Centaur The Wife of the Centaur is a 1924 silent drama film directed by King Vidor, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer shortly after it formed from a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Mayer Pictures in April 1924.... |
Inez Martin | Lost film | |
| 1925 | A Thief in Paradise A Thief in Paradise A Thief in Paradise is a 1925 silent film, written by Frances Marion and directed by George Fitzmaurice. It is an adaptation of Leonard Merrick's novel The Worldlings . It is a "lost film".-Plot:... |
Rosa Carmino | Lost film |
| One Year to Live | Elsa Duchanier | ||
| A Kiss in the Dark | Janet Livingstone | ||
| Wildfire | Claire Barrington | Extant(Library of Congress) | |
| The Mystic The Mystic The Mystic is a 1925 silent drama film directed by Tod Browning, who later directed MGM's Freaks . Aileen Pringle's gowns in the film were by already famous Romain de Tirtoff .-Plot:... |
Zara | Extant(Turner/Warner Brothers)(Trailer-Library of Congress) | |
| Soul Mates Soul Mates (film) Soul Mates is a 1925 silent drama film directed by Jack Conway, based on the 1911 novel The Reason Why by Elinor Glyn. The movie was the second successful collaboration between Glyn and Conway. -Plot:... |
Velma | ||
| 1926 | Camille Camille (Barton film) Camille is a short film by Ralph Barton, the creation of which is described in Bruce Kellner's The Last Dandy, a biography of Barton.... |
Estelle | Short film |
| The Wilderness Woman | Juneau MacLean | ||
| The Great Deception The Great Deception The Great Deception is a 1926 silent era American film starring Basil Rathbone, Ben Lyon and Aileen Pringle. It is based on a novel about WW1 era espionage by writer George Gibbs. This film is currently a lost First National film. -Cast:... |
Lois | ||
| Tin Gods | Janet Stone | ||
| 1927 | Adam and Evil | Evelyn Trevelyan | |
| Body and Soul Body and Soul (1927 film) Body and Soul is a 1927 silent film starring Aileen Pringle, Norman Kerry, and Lionel Barrymore. The movie was directed by Reginald Barker.-Cast:*Aileen Pringle as Hilda*Norman Kerry as Ruffo*Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Leyden... |
Hilda | ||
| Tea for Three | Doris Langford | ||
| 1928 | Wickedness Preferred | Kitty Dare | |
| Beau Broadway | Yvonne | ||
| The Baby Cyclone | Lydia | ||
| Show People Show People Show People is a 1928 comedy silent film directed by King Vidor. The movie was a starring vehicle for actress Marion Davies and actor William Haines and included notable cameo appearances by many of the film personalities of the day, including stars Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, William S.... |
Herself | Cameo appearance; Extant(Turner/Warner Brothers) | |
| Dream of Love Dream of Love Dream of Love is a 1928 MGM silent film, directed by Fred Niblo, and starring Joan Crawford and Nils Asther. The film is based on the play Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé. In the film, Asther plays Prince Maurice de Saxe and Crawford plays Adrienne Lecouvreur, a Gypsy... |
The Duchess | Lost film | |
| 1929 | A Single Man | Mary Hazeltine | |
| Night Parade | Paula Vernoff | Incomplete(Library of Congress) | |
| Wall Street Wall Street (1929 film) Wall Street was a drama film released on December 1, 1929 and was produced by Harry Cohn, directed by Roy William Neill, and starred Ralph Ince, Aileen Pringle, Sam De Grasse, Philip Strange, and Freddie Burke Frederick.synopsis... |
Ann Tabor | ||
| 1930 | Puttin' on the Ritz Puttin' on the Ritz (film) Puttin' on the Ritz is a musical film, directed by Edward Sloman and starred Harry Richman, Joan Bennett, and James Gleason. The screenplay was written by James Gleason and William K. Wells, based on a story by John W... |
Mrs. Teddy Von Rennsler | |
| Prince of Diamonds | Eve Marley | ||
| Soldiers and Women | Brenda Ritchie | ||
| 1931 | Subway Express | Dale Tracy | |
| Murder at Midnight Murder at Midnight (1931 film) - Plot summary : This movie was the movie within a movie in The Mirror Crack'd with Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, Kim Novak, and an uncredited Pierce Brosnan as "Jamie".- Cast :*Aileen Pringle as Esme Kennedy... |
Esme Kennedy | ||
| Convicted | Claire Norville | ||
| 1932 | Police Court Police Court Police Court is a 1932 American Monogram Pictures drama motion picture starring Henry B. Walthall, Leon Janney, Lionel Belmore, and King Baggot. Directed by Louis King and produced by I. E. Chadwick, the screenplay was adapted by Stuart Anthony from his story... |
Diana McCormick | |
| The Age of Consent | Barbara | ||
| The Phantom of Crestwood The Phantom of Crestwood The Phantom of Crestwood is a murder mystery film released by RKO Radio Pictures, directed by J. Walter Ruben, and starring Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Anita Louise, H. B. Warner, and Pauline Frederick... |
Mrs. Herbert Walcott | ||
| 1933 | By Appointment Only | Diane Manners | |
| 1934 | Love Past Thirty | Caroline Burt | |
| Jane Eyre Jane Eyre (1934 film) Jane Eyre is a 1934 American romantic drama film directed by Christy Cabanne, starring Virginia Bruce and Colin Clive. It is based on the 1847 novel of the same name by Charlotte Brontë, and is the first adaptation to use sound.- Plot summary :... |
Lady Blanche Ingram | ||
| Once to Every Bachelor | Judy Bryant | ||
| Sons of Steel | Enid Chadburne | ||
| 1935 | Vanessa: Her Love Story | Herries Servant | Uncredited |
| 1936 | Wife vs. Secretary Wife vs. Secretary Wife vs. Secretary is a comedy film directed and co-produced by Clarence Brown. It stars Clark Gable as a successful businessman, Jean Harlow as his secretary, and Myrna Loy as his wife, supported by May Robson as his mother and James Stewart, in one of his first memorable roles, as the... |
Mrs. Anne Barker | Uncredited |
| The Unguarded Hour The Unguarded Hour The Unguarded Hour is a 1936 film starring Loretta Young and Franchot Tone under the direction of Sam Wood. The prosecutor in a murder trial is unaware that his wife is involved.-Cast:*Loretta Young as Lady Helen Dudley Dearden... |
Diana Roggers | ||
| Piccadilly Jim Piccadilly Jim (1936 film) Piccadilly Jim is a 1936 romantic comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The film is based on the 1917 novel of the same name written by P. G. Wodehouse.-Plot:... |
Paducah Pomeroy | ||
| Wanted: Jane Turner | Norris' Secretary | Uncredited | |
| 1937 | Criminal Lawyer | Mrs. Manning | Uncredited |
| The Last of Mrs. Cheyney The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937 film) The Last of Mrs. Cheyney is a 1937 drama/comedy motion picture starring Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery and Frank Morgan. The film tells the story of a chic jewel thief in England, who falls in love with one of her marks.... |
Maria | ||
| John Meade's Woman | Mrs. Melton | ||
| Thanks for Listening | Lulu, Blackmailer Leader | ||
| She's No Lady | Mrs. Douglas | ||
| Nothing Sacred Nothing Sacred (film) Nothing Sacred is a 1937 Technicolor screwball comedy film made by Selznick International Pictures and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by William A. Wellman and produced by David O. Selznick, from a screenplay credited to Ben Hecht, based on a story by James H. Street... |
Mrs. Bullock | Uncredited | |
| 1938 | Man-Proof | Second Gossipy Woman | Uncredited |
| Too Hot to Handle Too Hot to Handle (1938 film) Too Hot to Handle is a 1938 film about a newsreel reporter, the aviatrix he is attracted to, and his fierce competitor, played by Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and Walter Pidgeon respectively... |
Mrs. Arthur MacArthur | Uncredited | |
| 1939 | The Hardys Ride High | Miss Booth, Dress Saleslady | |
| Calling Dr. Kildare | Mrs. Thatcher | Uncredited | |
| Should a Girl Marry? | Mrs. White | ||
| The Women The Women (1939 film) The Women is a 1939 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor. The film is based on Clare Boothe Luce's play of the same name, and was adapted for the screen by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, who had to make the film acceptable for the Production Code in order for it to be released.The film... |
Miss Carter (saleslady) | Uncredited | |
| The Night of Nights | Dress Saleslady | Uncredited | |
| 1941 | Appointment for Love | Nurse Gibbons | Uncredited |
| They Died with Their Boots On They Died with Their Boots On They Died with Their Boots On is a 1941 western film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Despite being rife with historical inaccuracies, the film was one of the top-grossing films of the year, being the last of eight Flynn–de Havilland collaborations.Like... |
Mrs. Sharp | Uncredited | |
| 1942 | Between Us Girls | Guest | Uncredited |
| 1943 | The Youngest Profession The Youngest Profession The Youngest Profession is a 1943 film, directed by Edward Buzzell, and starring Virginia Weidler, John Carroll, Edward Arnold, Scotty Beckett, and Agnes Moorehead. It contains cameos by Greer Garson, Lana Turner, William Powell, Walter Pidgeon, and Robert Taylor.... |
Miss Farwood | Uncredited |
| Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case | Chaperon | Uncredited | |
| Happy Land Happy Land (film) Happy Land is a 1943 film directed by Irving Pichel and starring Don Ameche.-Synopsis:Lew Marsh, s pharmacist to the small community of Hartfield, Iowa, is lunching with his devoted wife Agnes when a telegram arrives notifying them that their only child, Russell, whom they called Rusty, has been... |
Mrs. Prentiss | Uncredited | |
| 1944 | Since You Went Away Since You Went Away Since You Went Away is a 1944 film distributed by United Artists, a big-budget epic about the American home front during World War II. It was directed by John Cromwell and adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret... |
Woman at Cocktail Lounge | Uncredited |
| A Wave, a WAC and a Marine | Newswoman | ||
| Laura Laura (1944 film) Laura is a 1944 American film noir directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb. The screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Reinhardt is based on the 1943 novel of the same title by Vera Caspary.... |
Woman | Uncredited |
External links
- Aileen Pringle at Silent Ladies & Gents
- Aileen Pringle at the New York Times Movies
- Aileen Pringle Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.