Acting
Nora Cecil
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
The Big Parade of Comedy
Film · 1964
Mourning Becomes Electra
Film · 1947
The Sea of Grass
Film · 1947
Big Town
Film · 1946
Two Sisters from Boston
Film · 1946
The Missing Lady
Film · 1946
Lady on a Train
Film · 1945
The Thin Man Goes Home
Film · 1944
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Film · 1944
Hail the Conquering Hero
Film · 1944
The Unknown Guest
Film · 1943
I Married a Witch
Film · 1942
Apache Trail
Film · 1942
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Film · 1942
Obliging Young Lady
Film · 1942
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Film · 1941
Three Girls About Town
Film · 1941
The Bank Dick
Film · 1940
Lucky Partners
Film · 1940
Little Men
Film · 1940
Young People
Film · 1940
Those Were the Days!
Film · 1940
What a Life
Film · 1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Film · 1939
Stagecoach
Film · 1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Film · 1939
Union Pacific
Film · 1939
Some Like It Hot
Film · 1939
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
Film · 1938
International Settlement
Film · 1938
Night of Mystery
Film · 1937
Three Smart Boys
Film · 1937
Night Must Fall
Film · 1937
Partners in Crime
Film · 1937
She Asked for It
Film · 1937
Easy Living
Film · 1937
Champagne Waltz
Film · 1937
Nothing Sacred
Film · 1937
Borrowing Trouble
Film · 1937
The Mighty Treve
Film · 1937
Blossoms On Broadway
Film · 1937
Under Your Spell
Film · 1936
College Holiday
Film · 1936
Little Miss Nobody
Film · 1936
Fury
Film · 1936
Two in the Dark
Film · 1936
The Big Broadcast of 1937
Film · 1936
Dancing Pirate
Film · 1936
Let's Make a Million
Film · 1936
Laughing at Trouble
Film · 1936
Girl of the Ozarks
Film · 1936
Car 99
Film · 1935
Slightly Static
Film · 1935
Way Down East
Film · 1935
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Film · 1935
Memories and Melodies
Film · 1935
Gold Diggers of 1935
Film · 1935
Collegiate
Film · 1935
Vagabond Lady
Film · 1935
Mixed Nuts
Film · 1934
Laughing Boy
Film · 1934
Search for Beauty
Film · 1934
One-Horse Farmers
Film · 1934
Opened by Mistake
Film · 1934
The Merry Widow
Film · 1934
The Old-Fashioned Way
Film · 1934
Chained
Film · 1934
You're Telling Me!
Film · 1934
The Spectacle Maker
Film · 1934
Bachelor Bait
Film · 1934
Once to Every Woman
Film · 1934
Upperworld
Film · 1934
Nature in the Wrong
Film · 1933
Asleep in the Feet
Film · 1933
Peg o' My Heart
Film · 1933
Going Hollywood
Film · 1933
Stage Mother
Film · 1933
King of the Jungle
Film · 1933
Fast Workers
Film · 1933
Design for Living
Film · 1933
Wreckety Wrecks
Film · 1933
Meet the Baron
Film · 1933
Doctor Bull
Film · 1933
Hold Your Man
Film · 1933
Girl Grief
Film · 1932
Hot Saturday
Film · 1932
Amateur Daddy
Film · 1932
Mr. Bride
Film · 1932
Young Bride
Film · 1932
Pack Up Your Troubles
Film · 1932
The Millionaire Cat
Film · 1932
Arrowsmith
Film · 1931
East Lynne
Film · 1931
Everything’s Rosie
Film · 1931
The Ruling Voice
Film · 1931
Street Scene
Film · 1931
Millie
Film · 1931
Seven Days Leave
Film · 1930
Only Saps Work
Film · 1930
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
Film · 1930
Little Accident
Film · 1930
Hell's Angels
Film · 1930
Seven Footprints to Satan
Film · 1929
Footlights and Fools
Film · 1929
A Trick of Hearts
Film · 1928
The Baby Cyclone
Film · 1928
The Cavalier
Film · 1928
Driftwood
Film · 1928
The Silent Rider
Film · 1927
The Demi-Bride
Film · 1927
The Devil Dancer
Film · 1927
Sensation Seekers
Film · 1927
The Fortune Hunter
Film · 1927
Girls
Film · 1927
Too Many Crooks
Film · 1927
Born to Battle
Film · 1927
Chip of the Flying U
Film · 1926
Midnight Faces
Film · 1926
His Majesty, Bunker Bean
Film · 1925
Three Weeks in Paris
Film · 1925
The Deadwood Coach
Film · 1924
Darwin Was Right
Film · 1924
Manslaughter
Film · 1922
Timothy's Quest
Film · 1922
The Town That Forgot God
Film · 1922
Footfalls
Film · 1921
The Daughter Pays
Film · 1920
Red Foam
Film · 1920
An Amateur Widow
Film · 1919
Woman, Woman!
Film · 1919
Miss Crusoe
Film · 1919
American Buds
Film · 1918
Prunella
Film · 1918
Love Net
Film · 1918
By Hook or Crook
Film · 1918
Appearance of Evil
Film · 1918
The Zero Hour
Film · 1918
The Wild Girl
Film · 1917
A Royal Romance
Film · 1917
The Poor Little Rich Girl
Film · 1917
Tillie Wakes Up
Film · 1917
The Social Secretary
Film · 1916
A Model Husband
Film · 1916
The Arrival of Perpetua
Film · 1915