Nora Cecil
- Recitazione
- 24 settembre 1878 · London, England, UK
- 1 maggio 1951
Biografia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
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Filmografia
- The Big Parade of Comedy · Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Il lutto si addice ad Elettra · Louisa Ames
- Il mare d'erba · Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
- Big Town · Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
- The Missing Lady · Miss Millie
- Two Sisters from Boston · Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
- Due pantofole e una ragazza
- L'uomo ombra torna a casa · Miss Peavy
- Il miracolo del villaggio · Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
- Evviva il nostro eroe · Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
- The Unknown Guest · Martha Williams
- Ho sposato una strega · Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
- Apache Trail · Passenger (uncredited)
- The Wife Takes a Flyer · Miss Updike
- Obliging Young Lady · Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
- Three Girls About Town · Casket Customer
- A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob · Charwoman
- Un comodo posto in banca · Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
- I due avventurieri · Head of Orphanage
- Young People · Righteous Old Lady (uncredited)
- Lucky Partners · Women's Club President (uncredited)
- Those Were the Days! · Mrs. Moffett
- What a Life · Miss Eggleston
- Some Like It Hot · Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
- La via dei giganti · Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
- La sposa di Boston · Miss Jenkins
- Ombre rosse · Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
- Mr. Boggs Steps Out · Widow Peddie
- L'ultima nave da Shanghai · English Woman
- Borrowing Trouble · Dressmaker
- Nulla sul serio · Schoolteacher (uncredited)
- Blossoms On Broadway · Leader of Committee (uncredited)
- Partners in Crime · Housekeeper
- She Asked for It · Elderly lady (uncredited)
- Un colpo di fortuna · Miss Swerf
- Night of Mystery
- Una strana epidemia · Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
- Notturno tragico
- Champagne Waltz · Train Passenger
- The Mighty Treve · Old Maid at Dog Show
- College Holiday · Miss Elkins (uncredited)
- Laughing at Trouble · Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman
- Under Your Spell · School Teacher (uncredited)
- The Big Broadcast of 1937 · Home Economics Woman
- Let's Make a Million
- Girl of the Ozarks · Miss Trent
- Little Miss Nobody · Mrs. Robinson
- Furia · Albert's Mother (uncredited)
- Il pirata ballerino · Landlady (uncredited)
- Two in the Dark · Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)
- Collegiate · Miss Curtiss
- Cuori incatenati · Townswoman at Party
- Slightly Static · Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
- Vagabond Lady · Miss Perkins (uncredited)
- Donne di lusso 1935 · Housekeeper (uncredited)
- Pattuglia allarme · Granny Adams
- Memories and Melodies · Customer (uncredited)
- Biography of a Bachelor Girl · Ship's Matron (uncredited)
- La vedova allegra · Animal Woman (uncredited)
- Opened by Mistake · Head Nurse
- The Spectacle Maker · Duchess
- Incatenata · Edith (uncredited)
- One-Horse Farmers · Subway Passenger (uncredited)
- Bachelor Bait · Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
- Compagni d'allegria · Mrs. Wendelschaffer
- Upperworld · Stream's Housekeeper (uncredited)
- Laughing Boy · Schoolteacher
- You're Telling Me! · Mrs. Price
- Once to Every Woman · Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited)
- Mixed Nuts · Mrs. Twitchett
- Search for Beauty · Miss Pettigrew
- Partita a quattro · Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
- Verso Hollywood · Briarcroft's Teacher
- Meet the Baron · Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
- Figlia d'arte · Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
- Doctor Bull · Aunt Emily Banning
- L'uomo che voglio · Miss Campbell (uncredited)
- Peg del mio cuore · Smythe (maid)
- Nature in the Wrong · Muriel's mother