Nora Cecil
Acting
1878-09-24 · 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.
Filmography
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · Movie
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947 · Movie
The Sea of Grass
1947 · Movie
Big Town
1946 · Movie
The Missing Lady
1946 · Movie
Two Sisters from Boston
1946 · Movie
Lady on a Train
1945 · Movie
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944 · Movie
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944 · Movie
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944 · Movie
The Unknown Guest
1943 · Movie
I Married a Witch
1942 · Movie
Apache Trail
1942 · Movie
The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942 · Movie
Obliging Young Lady
1942 · Movie
Three Girls About Town
1941 · Movie
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941 · Movie
The Bank Dick
1940 · Movie
Little Men
1940 · Movie
Young People
1940 · Movie
Lucky Partners
1940 · Movie
Those Were the Days!
1940 · Movie
What a Life
1939 · Movie
Some Like It Hot
1939 · Movie
Union Pacific
1939 · Movie
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939 · Movie
Stagecoach
1939 · Movie
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939 · Movie
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
1938 · Movie
International Settlement
1938 · Movie
Borrowing Trouble
1937 · Movie
Nothing Sacred
1937 · Movie
Blossoms On Broadway
1937 · Movie
Partners in Crime
1937 · Movie
She Asked for It
1937 · Movie
Easy Living
1937 · Movie
Night of Mystery
1937 · Movie
Three Smart Boys
1937 · Movie
Night Must Fall
1937 · Movie
Champagne Waltz
1937 · Movie
The Mighty Treve
1937 · Movie
College Holiday
1936 · Movie
Laughing at Trouble
1936 · Movie
Under Your Spell
1936 · Movie
The Big Broadcast of 1937
1936 · Movie
Let's Make a Million
1936 · Movie
Girl of the Ozarks
1936 · Movie
Fury
1936 · Movie
Little Miss Nobody
1936 · Movie
Dancing Pirate
1936 · Movie
Two in the Dark
1936 · Movie
Collegiate
1935 · Movie
Way Down East
1935 · Movie
Slightly Static
1935 · Movie
Vagabond Lady
1935 · Movie
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935 · Movie
Car 99
1935 · Movie
Memories and Melodies
1935 · Movie
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
1935 · Movie
The Merry Widow
1934 · Movie
Opened by Mistake
1934 · Movie
The Spectacle Maker
1934 · Movie
Chained
1934 · Movie
One-Horse Farmers
1934 · Movie
Bachelor Bait
1934 · Movie
The Old-Fashioned Way
1934 · Movie
Upperworld
1934 · Movie
Laughing Boy
1934 · Movie
You're Telling Me!
1934 · Movie
Once to Every Woman
1934 · Movie
Mixed Nuts
1934 · Movie
Search for Beauty
1934 · Movie
Design for Living
1933 · Movie
Going Hollywood
1933 · Movie
Meet the Baron
1933 · Movie
Stage Mother
1933 · Movie
Doctor Bull
1933 · Movie
Hold Your Man
1933 · Movie
Peg o' My Heart
1933 · Movie
Nature in the Wrong
1933 · Movie
King of the Jungle
1933 · Movie
Fast Workers
1933 · Movie
Wreckety Wrecks
1933 · Movie
Asleep in the Feet
1933 · Movie
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932 · Movie
Mr. Bride
1932 · Movie
Hot Saturday
1932 · Movie
The Millionaire Cat
1932 · Movie
Girl Grief
1932 · Movie
Pack Up Your Troubles
1932 · Movie
Amateur Daddy
1932 · Movie
Young Bride
1932 · Movie
Arrowsmith
1931 · Movie
The Ruling Voice
1931 · Movie
Street Scene
1931 · Movie
Everything’s Rosie
1931 · Movie
East Lynne
1931 · Movie
Millie
1931 · Movie
Only Saps Work
1930 · Movie
Hell's Angels
1930 · Movie
Little Accident
1930 · Movie
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
1930 · Movie
Seven Days Leave
1930 · Movie
Footlights and Fools
1929 · Movie
Seven Footprints to Satan
1929 · Movie
The Cavalier
1928 · Movie
Driftwood
1928 · Movie
The Baby Cyclone
1928 · Movie
A Trick of Hearts
1928 · Movie
The Devil Dancer
1927 · Movie
Born to Battle
1927 · Movie
Too Many Crooks
1927 · Movie
Girls
1927 · Movie
Sensation Seekers
1927 · Movie
The Demi-Bride
1927 · Movie
The Fortune Hunter
1927 · Movie
The Silent Rider
1927 · Movie
Midnight Faces
1926 · Movie
Chip of the Flying U
1926 · Movie
Three Weeks in Paris
1925 · Movie
His Majesty, Bunker Bean
1925 · Movie
The Deadwood Coach
1924 · Movie
Darwin Was Right
1924 · Movie
The Town That Forgot God
1922 · Movie
Manslaughter
1922 · Movie
Timothy's Quest
1922 · Movie
Footfalls
1921 · Movie
The Daughter Pays
1920 · Movie
Red Foam
1920 · Movie
Woman, Woman!
1919 · Movie
Miss Crusoe
1919 · Movie
An Amateur Widow
1919 · Movie
Love Net
1918 · Movie
The Zero Hour
1918 · Movie
Appearance of Evil
1918 · Movie
By Hook or Crook
1918 · Movie
American Buds
1918 · Movie
Prunella
1918 · Movie
The Wild Girl
1917 · Movie
A Royal Romance
1917 · Movie
The Poor Little Rich Girl
1917 · Movie
Tillie Wakes Up
1917 · Movie
The Social Secretary
1916 · Movie
A Model Husband
1916 · Movie
The Arrival of Perpetua
1915 · Movie