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."
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
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Filmography (Movies)
Laura
Character:Woman (uncredited)
Release Date:11/10/1944
Since You Went Away
Character:Woman at Cocktail Lounge (uncredited)
Release Date:30/06/1944
Happy Land
Character:Mrs. Prentiss (uncredited)
Release Date:10/11/1943
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Character:Chaperon (uncredited)
Release Date:08/05/1943
Between Us Girls
Character:Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Release Date:04/09/1942
They Died with Their Boots On
Character:Mrs. Sharp (uncredited)
Release Date:20/11/1941
Appointment for Love
Character:Nurse Gibbons (uncredited)
Release Date:31/10/1941
The Night of Nights
Character:Dress Saleslady (uncredited)
Release Date:01/12/1939
The Women
Character:Miss Carter the Saleslady (uncredited)
Release Date:01/09/1939
Should a Girl Marry?
Character:Mrs. White
Release Date:07/06/1939
Calling Dr. Kildare
Character:Mrs. Thatcher (uncredited)
Release Date:28/04/1939
The Hardys Ride High
Character:Miss Booth
Release Date:21/04/1939
Too Hot to Handle
Character:Mrs. Arthur MacArthur (uncredited)
Release Date:16/09/1938
Nothing Sacred
Character:Mrs. Bullock (uncredited)
Release Date:25/11/1937
She's No Lady
Character:Mrs. Douglas
Release Date:20/08/1937
Thanks for Listening
Character:Lulu
Release Date:12/07/1937
John Meade's Woman
Character:Mrs. Melton
Release Date:26/02/1937
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Character:Lady Maria Frinton
Release Date:19/02/1937
Criminal Lawyer
Character:Mrs. Manning (uncredited)
Release Date:29/01/1937
Wanted: Jane Turner
Character:Norris' Secretary (uncredited)
Release Date:04/12/1936
Piccadilly Jim
Character:Paducah Pomeroy
Release Date:14/08/1936
The Unguarded Hour
Character:Diana Roggers
Release Date:10/04/1936
Wife vs. Secretary
Character:Mrs. Anne Barker (uncredited)
Release Date:28/02/1936
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Character:Herries Servant
Release Date:01/03/1935
Sons of Steel
Character:Enid Chadburne
Release Date:14/12/1934
Jane Eyre
Character:Lady Blanche Ingram
Release Date:15/08/1934
Love Past Thirty
Character:Caroline Burt
Release Date:14/02/1934
By Appointment Only
Character:Diane Manners
Release Date:06/07/1933
The Phantom of Crestwood
Character:Mrs. Walcott
Release Date:14/10/1932
The Age of Consent
Character:Barbara
Release Date:19/08/1932
Police Court
Character:Diana McCormick
Release Date:19/02/1932
Convicted
Character:Claire Norville
Release Date:01/11/1931
Murder at Midnight
Character:Esme Kennedy
Release Date:01/09/1931
Subway Express
Character:Dale Tracy
Release Date:01/05/1931
Soldiers and Women
Character:Brenda Ritchie
Release Date:30/04/1930
Prince of Diamonds
Character:Eve Marley
Release Date:26/03/1930
Puttin' on the Ritz
Character:Mrs. Teddy Van Rennsler
Release Date:19/02/1930
Wall Street
Character:Ann Tabor
Release Date:01/12/1929
Night Parade
Character:Paula Vernoff
Release Date:27/10/1929
A Single Man
Character:Mary Hazeltine
Release Date:12/01/1929
Dream of Love
Character:The Duchess
Release Date:01/12/1928
The Baby Cyclone
Character:Lydia
Release Date:26/09/1928
Beau Broadway
Character:Yvonne
Release Date:15/08/1928
Wickedness Preferred
Character:Kitty Dare
Release Date:28/01/1928
Tea For Three
Character:Doris Langford
Release Date:29/10/1927
Body and Soul
Character:Hilda
Release Date:01/10/1927
Adam and Evil
Character:
Release Date:27/08/1927
Life in Hollywood No. 7
Character:Herself
Release Date:25/08/1927
Tin Gods
Character:Janet Stone
Release Date:19/09/1926
The Great Deception
Character:Lois
Release Date:26/07/1926
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
Character:Estelle
Release Date:01/01/1926
The Mystic
Character:Zara
Release Date:26/09/1925
A Thief in Paradise
Character:Rosa Carmino
Release Date:18/06/1925
Soul Mates
Character:Velma
Release Date:28/05/1925
1925 Studio Tour
Character:Self
Release Date:09/04/1925
A Kiss in the Dark
Character:Janet Livingstone
Release Date:06/04/1925
One Year to Live
Character:Elsie Duchanier
Release Date:15/03/1925
The Wife of the Centaur
Character:Inez Martin
Release Date:01/12/1924
His Hour
Character:Tamara Loraine
Release Date:29/09/1924
True As Steel
Character:Mrs. Eva Boutelle
Release Date:20/04/1924
Three Weeks
Character:The Queen
Release Date:10/02/1924
Name the Man
Character:Isabelle
Release Date:27/01/1924
In the Palace of the King
Character:Princess Eboli
Release Date:28/10/1923
Don't Marry for Money
Character:Edith Martin
Release Date:19/08/1923
Souls for Sale
Character:Lady Jane
Release Date:22/04/1923
The Tiger's Claw
Character:Chameli Brentwood
Release Date:22/04/1923
The Christian
Character:Lady Robert Ure
Release Date:14/01/1923
The Strangers' Banquet
Character:Mrs. Schuyler-Peabody
Release Date:31/12/1922
My American Wife
Character:Hortensia deVereta
Release Date:31/12/1922
Oath-Bound
Character:Alice
Release Date:13/08/1922
Stolen Moments
Character:Inez Salles
Release Date:08/12/1920
Earthbound
Character:
Release Date:10/08/1920
The Cost
Character:Olivia
Release Date:11/04/1920
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