
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.

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