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
Filmography
all 67
Movies 67
self 3
Laura (1944)
Since You Went Away (1944)
Happy Land (1943)
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943)
Between Us Girls (1942)
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Appointment for Love (1941)
The Night of Nights (1939)
The Women (1939)
Should a Girl Marry? (1939)
Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)
The Hardys Ride High (1939)
Nothing Sacred (1937)
She's No Lady (1937)
Thanks for Listening (1937)
John Meade's Woman (1937)
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
Criminal Lawyer (1937)
Wanted: Jane Turner (1936)
Piccadilly Jim (1936)
The Unguarded Hour (1936)
Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935)
Sons of Steel (1934)
Jane Eyre (1934)
Love Past Thirty (1934)
By Appointment Only (1933)
The Bride's Bereavement; or, The Snake in the Grass (1932)
The Phantom of Crestwood (1932)
The Age of Consent (1932)
Police Court (1932)
Convicted (1931)
Murder at Midnight (1931)
Subway Express (1931)
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 18 (1930)
Soldiers and Women (1930)
Prince of Diamonds (1930)
Puttin' on the Ritz (1930)
Wall Street (1929)
Night Parade (1929)
A Single Man (1929)
Dream of Love (1928)
The Baby Cyclone (1928)
Body and Soul (1927)
Adam and Evil (1927)
Life in Hollywood No. 7 (1927)
Tin Gods (1926)
The Great Deception (1926)
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette (1926)
The Mystic (1925)
A Thief in Paradise (1925)
1925 Studio Tour (1925)
A Kiss in the Dark (1925)
One Year to Live (1925)
The Wife of the Centaur (1924)
His Hour (1924)
True As Steel (1924)
Three Weeks (1924)
Name the Man (1924)
Don't Marry for Money (1923)
The Tiger's Claw (1923)
Souls for Sale (1923)
The Christian (1923)
My American Wife (1922)
The Strangers' Banquet (1922)
Stolen Moments (1920)
Earthbound (1920)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1895-07-23
Deathday1989-12-16 (94 years old)
Birth PlaceSan Francisco, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsAileen Bisbee
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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