Acting · San Francisco, California, USA · Born July 23, 1895
Aileen Pringle's favorite film was a mid-1920s silent based on a book by Elinor Glyn: Three Weeks (1924), sort of a "Lady Chatterly's Lover". She recalled in a 1980 telephone conversation: "The film was in good taste; some people thought the book was trashy". Anita Loos wrote in "A Girl Like I", the first volume of her autobiography, vaudeville comic Joe Frisco telling Glynn: "Leave me get this straight. You want to find some tramp that don't look like a tramp, to play that English tramp in your picture. But take it from me, that kind of tramp don't hang out in Hollywood". Aileen had spent her 20s married to Charles McKenzie Pringle, the son of Sir John Pringle, a Jamaica landowner and a member of the Privy and Legislative Councils of Jamaica. Aileen lived in Jamaica until she went on stage with George Arliss. When she began divorce proceedings against Pringle in 1926, Hollywood gossip columnists speculated she would marry H.L. Mencken. She did not remarry until 1944 when she became the bride of James M. Cain, author of "The Postman Always Rings Twice". I opened my 1980 telephone conversation with Aileen by mentioning that the day before I had been reading her correspondence with Mencken at the New York Public Library. "But all the letters were destroyed", she said. I knew that Mencken had asked for all of his letters to her back at the time he became engaged to Sara Haardt. Aileen was the only woman who received such a request from Mencken at that time. "It was your letters from the late '30s and '40s I was reading", I told Aileen. "In one of them Mencken was urging you to write a book. Did you ever finish it?" "No. I got married instead." In a 1946 letter she wrote to Mencken. "If I had remained married to that psychotic Cain, I would be wearing a straitjacket instead of the New Look." Date of Death 16 December 1989, New York City, New York
MovieLaura
1944
as Woman (uncredited)
MovieSince You Went Away
1944
as Woman at Cocktail Lounge (uncredited)
MovieHappy Land
1943
as Mrs. Prentiss (uncredited)
MovieDr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943
as Chaperon (uncredited)
MovieBetween Us Girls
1942
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
MovieThey Died with Their Boots On
1941
as Mrs. Sharp (uncredited)
MovieAppointment for Love
1941
as Nurse Gibbons (uncredited)
MovieThe Night of Nights
1939
as Dress Saleslady (uncredited)
MovieThe Women
1939
as Miss Carter the Saleslady (uncredited)
MovieShould a Girl Marry?
1939
as Mrs. White
MovieCalling Dr. Kildare
1939
as Mrs. Thatcher (uncredited)
MovieThe Hardys Ride High
1939
as Miss Booth
MovieToo Hot to Handle
1938
as Mrs. Arthur MacArthur (uncredited)
MovieNothing Sacred
1937
as Mrs. Bullock (uncredited)
MovieShe's No Lady
1937
as Mrs. Douglas
Thanks for Listening
1937
as Lulu
MovieJohn Meade's Woman
1937
as Mrs. Melton
MovieThe Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937
as Lady Maria Frinton
MovieCriminal Lawyer
1937
as Mrs. Manning (uncredited)
MovieWanted: Jane Turner
1936
as Norris' Secretary (uncredited)
MoviePiccadilly Jim
1936
as Paducah Pomeroy
MovieThe Unguarded Hour
1936
as Diana Roggers
MovieWife vs. Secretary
1936
as Mrs. Anne Barker (uncredited)
MovieVanessa: Her Love Story
1935
as Herries Servant
MovieSons of Steel
1934
as Enid Chadburne
Once to Every Bachelor
1934
as Judy Bryant
MovieJane Eyre
1934
as Lady Blanche Ingram
Love Past Thirty
1934
as Caroline Burt
MovieBy Appointment Only
1933
as Diane Manners
MovieThe Phantom of Crestwood
1932
as Mrs. Walcott
MovieThe Age of Consent
1932
as Barbara
MoviePolice Court
1932
as Diana McCormick
MovieConvicted
1931
as Claire Norville
MovieMurder at Midnight
1931
as Esme Kennedy
MovieSubway Express
1931
as Dale Tracy
MovieSoldiers and Women
1930
as Brenda Ritchie
MoviePrince of Diamonds
1930
as Eve Marley
MoviePuttin' on the Ritz
1930
as Mrs. Teddy Van Rennsler
MovieWall Street
1929
as Ann Tabor
MovieNight Parade
1929
as Paula Vernoff
MovieA Single Man
1929
as Mary Hazeltine
MovieDream of Love
1928
as The Duchess
MovieThe Baby Cyclone
1928
as Lydia
Beau Broadway
1928
as Yvonne
MovieWickedness Preferred
1928
as Kitty Dare
MovieTea For Three
1927
as Doris Langford
MovieBody and Soul
1927
as Hilda
Adam and Evil
1927
MovieLife in Hollywood No. 7
1927
as Herself
MovieTin Gods
1926
as Janet Stone
MovieThe Great Deception
1926
as Lois
MovieCamille: The Fate of a Coquette
1926
as Estelle
MovieThe Mystic
1925
as Zara
MovieA Thief in Paradise
1925
as Rosa Carmino
Wildfire
1925
as Claire Barrington
MovieSoul Mates
1925
as Velma
Movie1925 Studio Tour
1925
as Self
MovieA Kiss in the Dark
1925
as Janet Livingstone
MovieOne Year to Live
1925
as Elsie Duchanier
MovieThe Wife of the Centaur
1924
as Inez Martin
MovieHis Hour
1924
as Tamara Loraine
MovieTrue As Steel
1924
as Mrs. Eva Boutelle
MovieThree Weeks
1924
as The Queen
MovieName the Man
1924
as Isabelle
MovieIn the Palace of the King
1923
as Princess Eboli
MovieDon't Marry for Money
1923
as Edith Martin
MovieSouls for Sale
1923
as Lady Jane
MovieThe Tiger's Claw
1923
as Chameli Brentwood
MovieThe Christian
1923
as Lady Robert Ure
MovieThe Strangers' Banquet
1922
as Mrs. Schuyler-Peabody
MovieMy American Wife
1922
as Hortensia deVereta
MovieOath-Bound
1922
as Alice
MovieStolen Moments
1920
as Inez Salles
MovieEarthbound
1920
MovieThe Cost
1920
as Olivia
MovieThe Wilderness Woman
as Juneau MacLean
