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Nora Cecil (September 20, 1878 – May 1, 1951) was a British-American character actress whose 30-year career spanned both the silent and sound film eras. Cecil's 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. (A 1930 newspaper article says that Cecil "made her debut, three decades ago, on the London stage.")
Cecil appeared in well over 100 feature films and film shorts.
In 1915, she moved from the stage into films, her first appearance being in a starring role in The Arrival of Perpetua, directed by Émile Chautard. She often played "thin-lipped, stern-visaged dowagers and forbidding mothers-in-law" and "welfare workers, landladies, schoolmistresses and maiden aunts".
One of the most significant roles was in the W.C. Fields vehicle, The Old Fashioned Way in 1934. 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; the 1939 version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, starring Mickey Rooney; the John Ford classic, Stagecoach, with John Wayne.
Her final acting performance was in a featured role in Mourning Becomes Electra in 1947, starring Rosalind Russell.
Filmography
all 121
Movies 121
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Big Town (1946)
The Missing Lady (1946)
Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
Lady on a Train (1945)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1943)
The Unknown Guest (1943)
I Married a Witch (1942)
Apache Trail (1942)
The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)
Obliging Young Lady (1942)
Three Girls About Town (1941)
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941)
Little Men (1940)
The Bank Dick (1940)
Young People (1940)
Lucky Partners (1940)
What a Life (1939)
Some Like It Hot (1939)
Union Pacific (1939)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Stagecoach (1939)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
Mr. Boggs Steps Out (1938)
International Settlement (1938)
Borrowing Trouble (1937)
Nothing Sacred (1937)
Blossoms On Broadway (1937)
Partners in Crime (1937)
She Asked for It (1937)
Easy Living (1937)
Night of Mystery (1937)
Three Smart Boys (1937)
Night Must Fall (1937)
Champagne Waltz (1937)
The Mighty Treve (1937)
College Holiday (1936)
Under Your Spell (1936)
The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)
Let's Make a Million (1936)
Fury (1936)
Little Miss Nobody (1936)
Dancing Pirate (1936)
Collegiate (1936)
Two in the Dark (1936)
Way Down East (1935)
Slightly Static (1935)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Car 99 (1935)
Memories and Melodies (1935)
Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)
The Merry Widow (1934)
Opened by Mistake (1934)
The Spectacle Maker (1934)
Chained (1934)
One-Horse Farmers (1934)
Bachelor Bait (1934)
The Old-Fashioned Way (1934)
Upperworld (1934)
Laughing Boy (1934)
You're Telling Me! (1934)
Mixed Nuts (1934)
Search for Beauty (1934)
Design for Living (1933)
Going Hollywood (1933)
Meet the Baron (1933)
Stage Mother (1933)
Doctor Bull (1933)
Peg o' My Heart (1933)
Nature in the Wrong (1933)
King of the Jungle (1933)
Fast Workers (1933)
Wreckety Wrecks (1933)
Asleep in the Feet (1933)
Mr. Bride (1932)
Hot Saturday (1932)
Girl Grief (1932)
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
Amateur Daddy (1932)
Young Bride (1932)
Arrowsmith (1931)
The Ruling Voice (1931)
Street Scene (1931)
Everything’s Rosie (1931)
East Lynne (1931)
Millie (1931)
Only Saps Work (1930)
Hell's Angels (1930)
Little Accident (1930)
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930)
Seven Days Leave (1930)
Footlights and Fools (1929)
Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
The Cavalier (1928)
The Baby Cyclone (1928)
A Trick of Hearts (1928)
The Devil Dancer (1927)
Too Many Crooks (1927)
Girls (1927)
Sensation Seekers (1927)
The Demi-Bride (1927)
The Silent Rider (1927)
Midnight Faces (1926)
Chip of the Flying U (1926)
His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925)
The Deadwood Coach (1924)
Manslaughter (1922)
Timothy's Quest (1922)
Footfalls (1921)
Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby (1921)
The Daughter Pays (1920)
American Buds (1918)
Prunella (1918)
The Wild Girl (1917)
A Royal Romance (1917)
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
Tillie Wakes Up (1917)
The Social Secretary (1916)
The Great Problem (1916)
A Model Husband (1916)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1878-09-26
Deathday1951-05-01 (72 years old)
Birth PlaceLondon, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsNorah Cecile, Nora Cecile
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