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Nora Cecil

24th September 1878 London, England, UK Acting

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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Big Town 23rd August 1946 as Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
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The Bank Dick 29th November 1940 as Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
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Young People 30th August 1940 as Righteous Old Lady (uncredited)
Stagecoach poster
Stagecoach 2nd March 1939 as Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
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Fury 5th June 1936 as Albert's Mother (uncredited)
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Car 99 2nd March 1935 as Granny Adams
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Chained 31st August 1934 as Edith (uncredited)
Upperworld poster
Upperworld 28th April 1934 as Stream's Housekeeper (uncredited)
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Stage Mother 29th September 1933 as Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
Fast Workers poster
Fast Workers 10th March 1933 as Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
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Hot Saturday 28th October 1932 as Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
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Girl Grief 8th October 1932 as Miss Tuttle, Principal
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Street Scene 5th September 1931 as Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
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East Lynne 1st March 1931 as Charity Bazaar Committee
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Millie 6th February 1931 as Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
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Girls 27th March 1927 as Matron Helen Hunt
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Manslaughter 24th September 1922 as Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
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Miss Crusoe 29th September 1919 as Miss Meeker (uncredited)
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Love Net 23rd December 1918 as Miss Prudence Tilly

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