Nora Cecil

Acting

Born Sep 24, 1878

From London, England, UK

Died May 01, 1951

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.

Nora Cecil

Known For

Fury

Stagecoach

Union Pacific

Hell's Angels

I Married a Witch

Nothing Sacred

Design for Living

What a Life

Easy Living

The Merry Widow

Filmography — Acting

Fury

Stagecoach

Union Pacific

Hell's Angels

I Married a Witch

Nothing Sacred

Design for Living

What a Life

Easy Living

The Merry Widow

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

Millie

Lady on a Train

Gold Diggers of 1935

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Two Sisters from Boston

Chained

Way Down East

Hot Saturday

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

The Thin Man Goes Home

Upperworld

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

The Sea of Grass

College Holiday

Stage Mother

Three Girls About Town

The Big Parade of Comedy

Pack Up Your Troubles

Biography of a Bachelor Girl

Apache Trail

Night Must Fall

Arrowsmith

Hail the Conquering Hero

Mourning Becomes Electra

Street Scene

Under Your Spell

Only Saps Work

The Bank Dick

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

Big Town

The Devil Dancer

Doctor Bull

Champagne Waltz

Going Hollywood

Young People

King of the Jungle

Hold Your Man

Seven Footprints to Satan

Dancing Pirate

Little Accident

The Missing Lady

East Lynne

Vagabond Lady

Once to Every Woman

The Wife Takes a Flyer

International Settlement

Peg o' My Heart

The Old-Fashioned Way

Too Many Crooks

The Social Secretary

Manslaughter

Fast Workers

Car 99

Little Men

Footlights and Fools

Those Were the Days!