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Nora Cecil (September 26, 1878 – May 1, 1951) was an English-born American character actress whose 30-year career spanned both the silent and sound film eras.

Nora Cecil
Cecil in The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
Born	(1878-09-26)September 26, 1878 London, England, UK
Died	May 1, 1951(1951-05-01) (aged 72) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1915–1947
Children	1

Career

Stage

Cecil's career began on the stage, when she debuted in London at age 19.[1] 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 1901–1902.[2] (A 1930 newspaper article says that Cecil "made her debut, three decades ago, on the London stage.")[3]

Film

Cecil appeared in well over 100 feature films and film shorts.[4] 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.[5] She often played "thin-lipped, stern-visaged dowagers and forbidding mothers-in-law"^{[citation needed]} 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.[6] 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;[7] the 1939 version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, starring Mickey Rooney;[8] and the John Ford classic, Stagecoach, with John Wayne.[9]

Her final acting performance was in a small role as "Louisa Ames" in Mourning Becomes Electra in 1947, starring Rosalind Russell.[10]

Personal life and death

She had a daughter, Dorothy, who was also an actress.[3] Cecil died on May 1, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, aged 72.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

(Per AFI database)[4]

References

External links

• Nora Cecil at the Internet Broadway Database
• Nora Cecil at IMDb

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