
Acting
Born July 23, 1895 · San Francisco, California, USA
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

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

Too Hot to Handle
1938

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 Phantom of Crestwood
1932

The Age of Consent
1932

Police Court
1932

Convicted
1931

Murder at Midnight
1931

Subway Express
1931

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
Beau Broadway
1928

Wickedness Preferred
1928

Tea For Three
1927

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

Soul Mates
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

In the Palace of the King
1923

Don't Marry for Money
1923

Souls for Sale
1923

The Tiger's Claw
1923

The Christian
1923

The Strangers' Banquet
1922

My American Wife
1922

Oath-Bound
1922

Stolen Moments
1920

Earthbound
1920

The Cost
1920