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