Nora Cecil
Known for: Acting
Born: September 24, 1878
Died: May 1, 1951
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
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7.2
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
6.1
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947
6.1
The Sea of Grass
1947
5.5
Big Town
1946
4.8
The Missing Lady
1946
6.3
Two Sisters from Boston
1946
6.7
Lady on a Train
1945
7.1
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944
6.8
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944
7.1
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944
7.0
The Unknown Guest
1943
6.9
I Married a Witch
1942
6.9
Apache Trail
1942
5.5
The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942
6.0
Obliging Young Lady
1942
6.5
Three Girls About Town
1941
5.5
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941
6.5
The Bank Dick
1940
5.5
Little Men
1940
5.3
Young People
1940
6.1
Lucky Partners
1940
8.0
Those Were the Days!
1940
10.0
What a Life
1939
7.6
Some Like It Hot
1939
6.7
Union Pacific
1939
6.3
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939
7.6
Stagecoach
1939
6.7
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939
5.3
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
1938
6.0
International Settlement
1938
7.0
Borrowing Trouble
1937
6.3
Nothing Sacred
1937
4.8
Blossoms On Broadway
1937
8.0
Partners in Crime
1937
8.0
She Asked for It
1937
7.2
Easy Living
1937
10.0
Night of Mystery
1937
6.8
Three Smart Boys
1937
7.0
Night Must Fall
1937
10.0
Champagne Waltz
1937
7.5
The Mighty Treve
1937
5.7
College Holiday
1936
8.0
Laughing at Trouble
1936
7.3
Under Your Spell
1936
6.2
The Big Broadcast of 1937
1936
7.5
Let's Make a Million
1936
6.5
Girl of the Ozarks
1936
7.5
Little Miss Nobody
1936
7.5
Fury
1936
5.7
Dancing Pirate
1936
6.1
Two in the Dark
1936
7.0
Collegiate
1935
4.5
Way Down East
1935
9.0
Slightly Static
1935
7.2
Vagabond Lady
1935
6.5
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935
7.5
Car 99
1935
7.0
Memories and Melodies
1935
6.8
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
1935
6.7
The Merry Widow
19348.0
Opened by Mistake
1934
6.3
The Spectacle Maker
1934
7.0
Chained
19348.0
One-Horse Farmers
1934
6.5
Bachelor Bait
1934
7.2
The Old-Fashioned Way
1934
6.1
Upperworld
1934
3.7
Laughing Boy
1934
6.3
You're Telling Me!
1934
6.1
Once to Every Woman
1934
7.1
Mixed Nuts
1934
5.5
Search for Beauty
1934
7.1
Design for Living
1933
5.5
Going Hollywood
1933
5.3
Meet the Baron
1933
6.3
Stage Mother
1933
6.7
Doctor Bull
1933
6.3
Hold Your Man
1933
5.0
Peg o' My Heart
1933
6.5
Nature in the Wrong
1933
5.8
King of the Jungle
1933
5.0
Fast Workers
193310.0
Wreckety Wrecks
1933
4.8
Asleep in the Feet
1933
6.3
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932
5.8
Mr. Bride
1932
6.5
Hot Saturday
193210.0
The Millionaire Cat
1932
7.0
Girl Grief
1932
6.8
Pack Up Your Troubles
1932
10.0
Amateur Daddy
1932
4.2
Young Bride
1932
6.6
Arrowsmith
1931
6.2
The Ruling Voice
1931
6.8
Street Scene
1931
6.0
Everything’s Rosie
1931
6.5
East Lynne
1931
5.3
Millie
1931
6.0
Only Saps Work
1930
6.6
Hell's Angels
1930
9.0
Little Accident
1930
5.3
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
1930
6.6
Seven Days Leave
1930
7.0
Footlights and Fools
1929
6.2
Seven Footprints to Satan
1929
7.0
The Cavalier
1928
9.0
Driftwood
1928
8.0
The Baby Cyclone
1928
8.0
A Trick of Hearts
1928
5.7
The Devil Dancer
1927
7.0
Born to Battle
1927
10.0
Too Many Crooks
1927
4.8
Girls
1927
6.7
Sensation Seekers
1927
8.0
The Demi-Bride
1927
8.0
The Fortune Hunter
1927
10.0
The Silent Rider
1927
6.8
Midnight Faces
1926
9.0
Chip of the Flying U
1926
8.0
Three Weeks in Paris
1925
9.0
His Majesty, Bunker Bean
1925
9.0
The Deadwood Coach
1924
7.0
Darwin Was Right
1924
8.0
The Town That Forgot God
1922
5.5
Manslaughter
1922
6.9
Timothy's Quest
1922
10.0
Footfalls
1921
7.0
The Daughter Pays
1920
8.0
Red Foam
1920
NR
Woman, Woman!
1919
9.0
Miss Crusoe
1919NR
An Amateur Widow
1919
7.0
Love Net
1918
NR
The Zero Hour
1918
NR
Appearance of Evil
1918
9.0
By Hook or Crook
1918
NR
American Buds
1918
NR
Prunella
1918
10.0
The Wild Girl
1917
NR
A Royal Romance
1917
5.7
The Poor Little Rich Girl
19176.0
Tillie Wakes Up
1917
5.6
The Social Secretary
19166.5
A Model Husband
1916NR
The Arrival of Perpetua
1915