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