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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.
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04 January 1935
Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeking to convince her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine.
24 March 1926
A young man inherits a mansion in a Florida swamp from an uncle he never knew he had. When he, his assistant and the estate's executor arrive at the house, the audience catches sight of someone crawling in the window, though the house is supposed to be unoccupied.
28 April 1942
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family.
19 May 1939
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk.
07 December 1924
A man searches for the villains who murdered his parents
01 November 1928
In old Mexico a masked rider (Talmadge) and an impoverished girl (Bedford) fall in love, against her father's wishes.
07 September 1935
Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.
29 September 1933
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig.
05 October 1939
Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.
02 March 1939
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
27 July 1934
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
17 September 1937
Dwight Stanford and his wife, Penny, are a pair of spendthrifts who can't hold on to money, dependent for support on Dwight's rich uncle, who sends them a monthly allowance.
24 February 1918
Letters from the late mother of orphaned sisters Jane and Katherine seem to indicate that their father is Capt.
14 September 1925
His Majesty, Bunker Bean is a 1925 silent film comedy directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Matt Moore.
30 October 1942
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when she discovers that her mischief might have found her true love.
01 April 1942
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
21 March 1927
The prohibition is in full swing and Egypt Hagen, a new woman, is the constant subject of controversy in her religious small town.
30 April 1917
Princess Sylvia refuses to marry the Emperor Maximilian of Rhaetia because his proposal has been offered for diplomatic rather than romantic reasons.
02 November 1934
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
08 September 1921
A blind cobbler is able, by dint of his extraordinary hearing, to recognize the identity of a murderer.
15 November 1930
As the Great War breaks out in Europe, English brothers Roy and Monte enlist in the Royal Flying Corps to fight for king and country, while their Oxford College friend Karl is ordered back to Germany.
28 October 1932
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
24 September 1922
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
22 December 1933
Sylvia is a French teacher at an all-girls school who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank him.
03 August 1945
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels.
16 July 1937
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith.
24 December 1944
Hoping for a peaceful visit with his parents in the small town of Sycamore Springs, Nick Charles and his wife Nora soon find themselves surrounded by old rivalries, family tensions, and a mysterious murder.
24 January 1930
In London, during WWI, a lonely woman who wants to feel a part of the war effort pretends to her friends to have a son fighting in the war.
01 September 1917
A dying stranger abandons a baby girl in a gypsy camp, with a note explaining that on her eighteenth birthday, she is to inherit a Virginia estate.
18 March 1933
Charley, hoping to find cultured people in his ancestry in order to be suitable to Muriel's family, is tricked by his rival Ronnie into believing himself a descendant of Tarzan.
05 June 1936
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
25 April 1947
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
04 April 1939
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice.
19 November 1937
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
14 March 1926
A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on a story by popular pulp fiction writer Peter B.
29 November 1940
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard.
30 June 1933
Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up.
10 March 1933
A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
05 October 1936
The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
27 January 1929
Before a planned African expedition, Jim's fiancée Eve worries her father's guest plans to steal one of her father's rubies.
08 April 1932
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
05 September 1931
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot.
10 January 1936
When Mr. X wakes up in the city park with amnesia, bloody and apparently connected to a murder of a well-known producer, fast talking Marie Smith takes pity on him.
24 March 1934
An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.
30 April 1937
Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in.
06 June 1946
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York.
25 October 1935
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
09 August 1944
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure.
02 May 1930
The sinister Dr. Fu Manchu returns to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.
30 October 1922
A village schoolteacher, unaware that Eben, the village carpenter, is in love with her, marries a surveyor and has a son, David.
31 August 1934
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him.
10 March 1933
Buddies Gunner and Bucker work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not.
21 January 1933
The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
21 May 1937
Philo Vance investigates a series of murders among members of the wealthy Greene family.
20 October 1933
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
02 September 1964
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
22 May 1936
Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy.
19 December 1936
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
27 March 1927
When the girls on campus learn that Tom Drake is so super-shy that he never kissed a girl, they begin betting which one will kiss him first.
