Nora Cecil
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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.
Known for
Credits
Stagecoach (1939)
as Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
Some Like It Hot (1939)
as Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
I Married a Witch (1942)
as Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
Young People (1940)
as Righteous Old Lady (uncredited)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
as Miss Peavy
Obliging Young Lady (1942)
as Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
You're Telling Me! (1934)
as Mrs. Price
Fury (1936)
as Albert's Mother (uncredited)
The Bank Dick (1940)
as Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
Collegiate (1935)
as Miss Curtiss
The Merry Widow (1934)
as Animal Woman (uncredited)
Design for Living (1933)
as Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
Bachelor Bait (1934)
as Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
Girl Grief (1932)
as Miss Tuttle, Principal
Union Pacific (1939)
as Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
The Missing Lady (1946)
as Miss Millie
Miss Crusoe (1919)
as Miss Meeker (uncredited)
Nothing Sacred (1937)
as Schoolteacher (uncredited)
The Unknown Guest (1943)
as Martha Williams
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
as Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
Woman, Woman! (1919)
as Mrs. Lindsay
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
as Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
Little Miss Nobody (1936)
as Mrs. Robinson
Hell's Angels (1930)
as Helen's Maid (uncredited)
Lady on a Train (1945)
Actor
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
as Miss Jenkins
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
as Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
The Sea of Grass (1947)
as Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
Amateur Daddy (1932)
as Saleslady
Opened by Mistake (1934)
as Head Nurse
By Hook or Crook (1918)
as Aunt Marie
Mixed Nuts (1934)
as Mrs. Twitchett
Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
as Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
Night of Mystery (1937)
Actor
Little Men (1940)
as Head of Orphanage
Three Weeks in Paris (1925)
Actor
Wreckety Wrecks (1933)
as Miss Winterbottom
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
The Social Secretary (1916)
as Spinster (uncredited)
Appearance of Evil (1918)
as Miss Spurgeon
The Arrival of Perpetua (1915)
as Abigail Majendrie
Easy Living (1937)
as Miss Swerf
The Demi-Bride (1927)
as School Teacher
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941)
as Charwoman
Footlights and Fools (1929)
as (uncredited)
Prunella (1918)
Actor
Chained (1934)
as Edith (uncredited)
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
as Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Arrowsmith (1931)
as Nurse (uncredited)
Girls (1927)
as Matron Helen Hunt
The Town That Forgot God (1922)
as (uncredited)
Girl of the Ozarks (1936)
as Miss Trent
Darwin Was Right (1924)
as Aunt Priscilla
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
as Housekeeper (uncredited)
The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)
as Home Economics Woman
Mr. Boggs Steps Out (1938)
as Widow Peddie
The Zero Hour (1918)
as Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)
A Trick of Hearts (1928)
as The Mayor
Stage Mother (1933)
as Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930)
Actor
Way Down East (1935)
as Townswoman at Party
Street Scene (1931)
as Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
Millie (1931)
as Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
Only Saps Work (1930)
as Mrs. Partridge (uncredited)
Two in the Dark (1936)
as Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)
The Wild Girl (1917)
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Tillie Wakes Up (1917)
as Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken
Hot Saturday (1932)
as Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
Champagne Waltz (1937)
as Train Passenger
The Old-Fashioned Way (1934)
as Mrs. Wendelschaffer
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
as Louisa Ames
King of the Jungle (1933)
as Spinster in park (uncredited)
Lucky Partners (1940)
as Women's Club President (uncredited)
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
as One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
Born to Battle (1927)
as Ma Cowan
Three Girls About Town (1941)
as Casket Customer
Love Net (1918)
as Miss Prudence Tilly
The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)
as Miss Updike
She Asked for It (1937)
as Elderly lady (uncredited)
Let's Make a Million (1936)
Actor
Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)
as Ship's Matron (uncredited)
Night Must Fall (1937)
Actor
Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
as Old Witch
Nature in the Wrong (1933)
as Muriel's mother
Slightly Static (1935)
as Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925)
as Countess Casanova
An Amateur Widow (1919)
Actor
Peg o' My Heart (1933)
as Smythe (maid)
Footfalls (1921)
Actor
Chip of the Flying U (1926)
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
The Spectacle Maker (1934)
as Duchess
Going Hollywood (1933)
as Briarcroft's Teacher
Hold Your Man (1933)
as Miss Campbell (uncredited)
Dancing Pirate (1936)
as Landlady (uncredited)
Laughing Boy (1934)
as Schoolteacher
International Settlement (1938)
as English Woman
Everything’s Rosie (1931)
as Hotel Proprietress
Doctor Bull (1933)
as Aunt Emily Banning
The Devil Dancer (1927)
as Julia
Big Town (1946)
as Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
What a Life (1939)
as Miss Eggleston
The Cavalier (1928)
as Lucia's Aunt
Manslaughter (1922)
as Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
Too Many Crooks (1927)
as (uncredited)
Fast Workers (1933)
as Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
Laughing at Trouble (1936)
as Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman
Little Accident (1930)
as Dr. Zernecke
Asleep in the Feet (1933)
as Female Police Officer
Seven Days Leave (1930)
as Amelia Twymley
Car 99 (1935)
as Granny Adams
Those Were the Days! (1940)
as Mrs. Moffett
East Lynne (1931)
as Charity Bazaar Committee
Borrowing Trouble (1937)
as Dressmaker
Once to Every Woman (1934)
as Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited)
Red Foam (1920)
Actor
Upperworld (1934)
as Stream's Housekeeper (uncredited)
Apache Trail (1942)
as Passenger (uncredited)
Driftwood (1928)
as Mrs. Prouty
Vagabond Lady (1935)
as Miss Perkins (uncredited)
Meet the Baron (1933)
as Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
Partners in Crime (1937)
as Housekeeper
Timothy's Quest (1922)
as Townswoman
Memories and Melodies (1935)
as Customer (uncredited)
The Baby Cyclone (1928)
as Mrs. Crandall
The Mighty Treve (1937)
as Old Maid at Dog Show
The Ruling Voice (1931)
as Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)
College Holiday (1936)
as Miss Elkins (uncredited)
Young Bride (1932)
as Landlady (uncredited)
The Fortune Hunter (1927)
as Betty Carpenter
The Millionaire Cat (1932)
as Aunt Mathilda
Mr. Bride (1932)
as Mrs. Cecil
One-Horse Farmers (1934)
as Subway Passenger (uncredited)
Under Your Spell (1936)
as School Teacher (uncredited)
American Buds (1918)
as Emily
A Model Husband (1916)
as Mrs Gossip
Blossoms On Broadway (1937)
as Leader of Committee (uncredited)
The Deadwood Coach (1924)
as Matilda Shields - in play
The Daughter Pays (1920)
Actor
The Silent Rider (1927)
as Mrs. Randall
Midnight Faces (1926)
as Mrs. Hart
Three Smart Boys (1937)
as Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
A Royal Romance (1917)
as Miss McPherson
Sensation Seekers (1927)
as Mrs. Lodge
Search for Beauty (1934)
as Miss Pettigrew