Aileen Pringle
Known for: Acting
Aileen Pringle's favorite film was a mid-1920s silent based on a book by Elinor Glyn: Three Weeks (1924), sort of a "Lady Chatterly's Lover". She recalled in a 1980 telephone conversation: "The film was in good taste; some people thought the book was trashy". Anita Loos wrote in "A Girl Like I", the first volume of her autobiography, vaudeville comic Joe Frisco telling Glynn: "Leave me get this straight. You want to find some tramp that don't look like a tramp, to play that English tramp in your picture. But take it from me, that kind of tramp don't hang out in Hollywood". Aileen had spent her 20s married to Charles McKenzie Pringle, the son of Sir John Pringle, a Jamaica landowner and a member of the Privy and Legislative Councils of Jamaica. Aileen lived in Jamaica until she went on stage with George Arliss. When she began divorce proceedings against Pringle in 1926, Hollywood gossip columnists speculated she would marry H.L. Mencken. She did not remarry until 1944 when she became the bride of James M. Cain, author of "The Postman Always Rings Twice". I opened my 1980 telephone conversation with Aileen by mentioning that the day before I had been reading her correspondence with Mencken at the New York Public Library. "But all the letters were destroyed", she said. I knew that Mencken had asked for all of his letters to her back at the time he became engaged to Sara Haardt. Aileen was the only woman who received such a request from Mencken at that time. "It was your letters from the late '30s and '40s I was reading", I told Aileen. "In one of them Mencken was urging you to write a book. Did you ever finish it?" "No. I got married instead." In a 1946 letter she wrote to Mencken. "If I had remained married to that psychotic Cain, I would be wearing a straitjacket instead of the New Look." Date of Death 16 December 1989, New York City, New York
Filmography
Film
Laura
Woman (uncredited)
1944
Film
The Women
Miss Carter the Saleslady (uncredited)
1939
Film
They Died with Their Boots On
Mrs. Sharp (uncredited)
1941
Film
Wife vs. Secretary
Mrs. Anne Barker (uncredited)
1936
Wildfire
Claire Barrington
1925
Film
Nothing Sacred
Mrs. Bullock (uncredited)
1937
Film
Appointment for Love
Nurse Gibbons (uncredited)
1941
Film
My American Wife
Hortensia deVereta
1922
Film
Since You Went Away
Woman at Cocktail Lounge (uncredited)
1944
Film
Too Hot to Handle
Mrs. Arthur MacArthur (uncredited)
1938
Film
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Lady Maria Frinton
1937
Film
The Wilderness Woman
Juneau MacLean
Film
Souls for Sale
Lady Jane
1923
Film
The Hardys Ride High
Miss Booth
1939
Film
Oath-Bound
Alice
1922
Film
Between Us Girls
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
1942
Film
Jane Eyre
Lady Blanche Ingram
1934
Love Past Thirty
Caroline Burt
1934
Film
Calling Dr. Kildare
Mrs. Thatcher (uncredited)
1939
Film
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Chaperon (uncredited)
1943
Film
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
Estelle
1926
Film
Tin Gods
Janet Stone
1926
Film
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Herries Servant
1935
Film
The Mystic
Zara
1925
Once to Every Bachelor
Judy Bryant
1934
Film
Happy Land
Mrs. Prentiss (uncredited)
1943
Film
The Phantom of Crestwood
Mrs. Walcott
1932
Film
Night Parade
Paula Vernoff
1929
Film
Wall Street
Ann Tabor
1929
Film
Piccadilly Jim
Paducah Pomeroy
1936
Film
The Night of Nights
Dress Saleslady (uncredited)
1939
Film
Three Weeks
The Queen
1924
Film
1925 Studio Tour
Self
1925
Film
Should a Girl Marry?
Mrs. White
1939
Film
Subway Express
Dale Tracy
1931
Film
Prince of Diamonds
Eve Marley
1930
Film
Wanted: Jane Turner
Norris' Secretary (uncredited)
1936
Film
Criminal Lawyer
Mrs. Manning (uncredited)
1937
Film
Name the Man
Isabelle
1924
Film
Soldiers and Women
Brenda Ritchie
1930
Film
Sons of Steel
Enid Chadburne
1934
Film
Murder at Midnight
Esme Kennedy
1931
Film
True As Steel
Mrs. Eva Boutelle
1924
Film
The Tiger's Claw
Chameli Brentwood
1923
Film
The Age of Consent
Barbara
1932
Film
She's No Lady
Mrs. Douglas
1937
Film
Dream of Love
The Duchess
1928
Film
Police Court
Diana McCormick
1932
Film
Puttin' on the Ritz
Mrs. Teddy Van Rennsler
1930
Film
The Cost
Olivia
1920
Film
Body and Soul
Hilda
1927
Film
John Meade's Woman
Mrs. Melton
1937
Film
The Unguarded Hour
Diana Roggers
1936
Film
The Baby Cyclone
Lydia
1928
Film
The Wife of the Centaur
Inez Martin
1924
Film
Convicted
Claire Norville
1931
Film
By Appointment Only
Diane Manners
1933
Film
His Hour
Tamara Loraine
1924
Film
Wickedness Preferred
Kitty Dare
1928
Film
A Single Man
Mary Hazeltine
1929
Film
A Kiss in the Dark
Janet Livingstone
1925
Film
Life in Hollywood No. 7
Herself
1927
Film
The Christian
Lady Robert Ure
1923
Film
Earthbound
1920
Film
Soul Mates
Velma
1925
Film
The Strangers' Banquet
Mrs. Schuyler-Peabody
1922
Film
In the Palace of the King
Princess Eboli
1923
Thanks for Listening
Lulu
1937
Film
The Great Deception
Lois
1926
Film
A Thief in Paradise
Rosa Carmino
1925
Adam and Evil
1927
Film
Don't Marry for Money
Edith Martin
1923
Film
One Year to Live
Elsie Duchanier
1925
Film
Stolen Moments
Inez Salles
1920
Beau Broadway
Yvonne
1928
Film
Tea For Three
Doris Langford
1927