Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1878-09-24
Day of Death
1951-05-01
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Nora Cecil
Biography
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.
Filmography (145)
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
