Nora Cecil

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Nora Cecil
File:NoraCecil.nature in the wrong.jpg
Nora Cecil in the 1933 film short, Nature in the Wrong
Born (1878-09-26)September 26, 1878
London, England, United Kingdom
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Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation Actress
Years active 1915–47

Nora Cecil (September 20, 1878 – September 26, 1951) was an American character actress whose 30-year career spanned both the silent and sound film eras.

Stage

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.[1] (A 1930 newspaper article says that Cecil "made her debut, three decades ago, on the London stage.")[2]

Film

Cecil appeared in well over 100 feature films and film shorts.[3]

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.[4] She often played "thin-lipped, stern-visaged dowagers and forbidding mothers-in-law"[5] and "welfare workers, landladies, schoolmistresses and maiden aunts".[6]

One of the most significant roles was in the W.C. Fields vehicle, The Old Fashioned Way in 1934.[7] 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;[8] the 1939 version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, starring Mickey Rooney;[9] the John Ford classic, Stagecoach, with John Wayne.[10] Cecil's final acting performance was in a featured role in the classic Mourning Becomes Electra in 1947, starring Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, and Kirk Douglas.[11]

Personal life

Cecil had a daughter, Dorothy Cecil, who was an actress.[2]

Death

Cecil died on May 1, 1951 in Los Angeles, California.[12]

Filmography (feature films)

(Per AFI database)[3]

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