Nora Cecil
Acting
Born September 24, 1878 · London, England, UK
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.
Films (144)
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947
The Sea of Grass
1947
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
1944
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944
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
The Bank Dick
1940
Little Men
1940
Young People
1940
Lucky Partners
1940
Those Were the Days!
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
Laughing at Trouble
1936
Under Your Spell
1936
The Big Broadcast of 1937
1936
Let's Make a Million
1936
Girl of the Ozarks
1936
Little Miss Nobody
1936
Fury
1936
Dancing Pirate
1936
Collegiate
1936
Two in the Dark
1936
Way Down East
1935
Slightly Static
1935
Vagabond Lady
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
Once to Every Woman
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
Hold Your Man
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
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932
Mr. Bride
1932
Hot Saturday
1932
The Millionaire Cat
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
Driftwood
1928
The Baby Cyclone
1928
A Trick of Hearts
1928
The Devil Dancer
1927
Born to Battle
1927
Too Many Crooks
1927
Girls
1927
Sensation Seekers
1927
The Demi-Bride
1927
The Fortune Hunter
1927
The Silent Rider
1927
Midnight Faces
1926
Chip of the Flying U
1926
His Majesty, Bunker Bean
1925
The Deadwood Coach
1924
Darwin Was Right
1924
The Town That Forgot God
1922
Manslaughter
1922
Timothy's Quest
1922
Footfalls
1921
The Daughter Pays
1920
Red Foam
1920
Woman, Woman!
1919
Miss Crusoe
1919
An Amateur Widow
1919
Love Net
1918
The Zero Hour
1918
Appearance of Evil
1918
By Hook or Crook
1918
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
A Model Husband
1916
The Arrival of Perpetua
1915