Aileen Pringle
Biography
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
Known For
Mary Hazeltine
A Single Man
Mrs. Walcott
The Phantom of Crestwood
Dale Tracy
Subway Express
Claire Norville
Convicted
Inez Martin
The Wife of the Centaur
Janet Livingstone
A Kiss in the Dark
Caroline Burt
Love Past Thirty
Dress Saleslady (uncredited)
The Night of Nights
Mrs. Manning (uncredited)
Criminal Lawyer
Esme Kennedy
Murder at Midnight
Barbara
The Age of Consent
Paducah Pomeroy
Piccadilly Jim
Diane Manners
By Appointment Only
Lady Blanche Ingram
Jane Eyre
Diana Roggers
The Unguarded Hour
Edith Martin
Don't Marry for Money
Lulu
Thanks for Listening
Mrs. Melton
John Meade's Woman
Isabelle
Name the Man
Brenda Ritchie
Soldiers and Women
Enid Chadburne
Sons of Steel
Mrs. Douglas
She's No Lady
Lady Robert Ure
The Christian
The Queen
Three Weeks
Mrs. Eva Boutelle
True As Steel
Rosa Carmino
A Thief in Paradise
The Duchess
Dream of Love
Paula Vernoff
Night Parade
Lady Jane
Souls for Sale
Mrs. Schuyler-Peabody
The Strangers' Banquet
Inez Salles
Stolen Moments
Norris' Secretary (uncredited)
Wanted: Jane Turner
Earthbound
Miss Booth
The Hardys Ride High
Mrs. Thatcher (uncredited)
Calling Dr. Kildare
Miss Carter the Saleslady (uncredited)
The Women
Elsie Duchanier
One Year to Live
Hilda
Body and Soul
Mrs. White
Should a Girl Marry?
Zara
The Mystic
Woman (uncredited)
Laura
Mrs. Teddy Van Rennsler
Puttin' on the Ritz
Lois
The Great Deception
Diana McCormick
Police Court
Mrs. Prentiss (uncredited)
Happy Land
Woman at Cocktail Lounge (uncredited)
Since You Went Away
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Between Us Girls
Mrs. Anne Barker (uncredited)
Wife vs. Secretary
Herries Servant
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Mrs. Bullock (uncredited)
Nothing Sacred
Mrs. Sharp (uncredited)
They Died with Their Boots On
Nurse Gibbons (uncredited)
Appointment for Love
Janet Stone
Tin Gods
Herself
Life in Hollywood No. 7
Hortensia deVereta
My American Wife
Ann Tabor
Wall Street
Eve Marley
Prince of Diamonds
Chaperon (uncredited)
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Lydia
The Baby Cyclone
Estelle
Camille
Self
1925 Studio Tour
Adam and Evil
Tamara Loraine
His Hour
Chameli Brentwood
The Tiger's Claw
Lady Maria Frinton
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Olivia
The Cost
Kitty Dare
Wickedness Preferred
Doris Langford
Tea For Three
Yvonne
Beau Broadway
Princess Eboli
In the Palace of the King
Velma
Soul Mates
Mrs. Arthur MacArthur (uncredited)
Too Hot to Handle
Alice
Oath-Bound
Juneau MacLean
The Wilderness Woman
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
74
Gender
Female
Birthday
1895-07-23
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Also Known As
Aileen Bisbee