1895-07-23 ( 129 years old ) in San Francisco, California, USA
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
Movies
Laura
1944-10-11
Since You Went Away
1944-06-30
Happy Land
1943-11-10
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943-05-08
Between Us Girls
1942-09-04
They Died with Their Boots On
1941-11-20
Appointment for Love
1941-10-31
The Night of Nights
1939-12-01
The Women
1939-09-01
Should a Girl Marry?
1939-06-07
Calling Dr. Kildare
1939-04-28
The Hardys Ride High
1939-04-21
Nothing Sacred
1937-11-25
She's No Lady
1937-08-20
Thanks for Listening
1937-07-12
John Meade's Woman
1937-02-26
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937-02-19
Criminal Lawyer
1937-01-29
Wanted: Jane Turner
1936-12-04
Piccadilly Jim
1936-08-14
The Unguarded Hour
1936-04-10
Wife vs. Secretary
1936-02-28
Vanessa: Her Love Story
1935-03-01
Sons of Steel
1934-12-14
Jane Eyre
1934-08-15
Love Past Thirty
1934-02-14
By Appointment Only
1933-07-06
The Phantom of Crestwood
1932-10-14
The Age of Consent
1932-08-19
Police Court
1932-02-19
Convicted
1931-11-01
Murder at Midnight
1931-09-01
Subway Express
1931-05-01
Soldiers and Women
1930-04-30
Prince of Diamonds
1930-03-26
Puttin' on the Ritz
1930-02-19
Wall Street
1929-12-01
Night Parade
1929-10-27
A Single Man
1929-01-12
Dream of Love
1928-12-01
The Baby Cyclone
1928-09-26
Wickedness Preferred
1928-01-28
Body and Soul
1927-10-01
Adam and Evil
1927-08-27
Life in Hollywood No. 7
1927-08-25
Tin Gods
1926-09-19
The Great Deception
1926-07-26
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
1926-01-01
The Mystic
1925-09-26
A Thief in Paradise
1925-06-18
1925 Studio Tour
1925-04-09
A Kiss in the Dark
1925-04-06
One Year to Live
1925-03-15
The Wife of the Centaur
1924-12-01
His Hour
1924-09-29
True As Steel
1924-04-20
Three Weeks
1924-02-10
Name the Man
1924-01-27
Don't Marry for Money
1923-08-19
Souls for Sale
1923-04-22
The Tiger's Claw
1923-04-22
The Christian
1923-01-14
The Strangers' Banquet
1922-12-31
My American Wife
1922-12-31
Stolen Moments
1920-12-08
Earthbound
1920-08-10
The Cost
1920-04-11
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