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Cecil Cunningham is a Actor American born on 2 august 1888 at St. Louis (USA)

Cecil Cunningham

Cecil Cunningham
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Nationality USA
Birth 2 august 1888 at St. Louis (USA)
Death 17 april 1959 (at 70 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Cecil Cunningham (August 2, 1888 – April 17, 1959) was an American film and stage actress. She started her working life as a switchboard operator in a commerce bank and did some sittings as a photographer's model. Her first show business job was in the chorus line of 'Mademoiselle Modiste' at the age of eighteen. Cunningham trained as a singer and appeared in opera. She worked as a vaudeville comedienne at the Palace in New York till commencement of her movie career in 1929.

Cunningham was a Hollywood character actress with whitish hair cut like a man's, often in roles as a general "know-it-all." She appeared in more than 80 movies between 1929 and 1946.

Her remains are interred in Chapel of the Pines Crematory.

Biography

Au théâtre, Cecil Cunningham se produit à Broadway (New York) entre 1913 et 1920, dans trois comédies musicales (dont Oh, I say ! de Jerome Kern), l'opérette Das Fürstenkind (adaptée en anglais) de Franz Lehár, l'opéra-comique Iolanthe du tandem Gilbert-Sullivan, et deux revues (dont Dancing Around, avec Al Jolson et Clifton Webb). Elle joue une dernière fois sur les planches new-yorkaises en 1934, dans la pièce Dance with your Gods (avec Lena Horne faisant ses débuts à Broadway).

Au cinéma, elle contribue à quatre-vingt-un films américains entre 1929 et 1948, avant une ultime prestation dans un film sorti en 1957. Mentionnons La Courtisane de Robert Z. Leonard (1931, avec Greta Garbo et Clark Gable), Cette sacrée vérité de Leo McCarey (1937, avec Clark Gable et Irene Dunne), Trompette Blues de Mitchell Leisen (1937, film musical avec Carole Lombard et Fred MacMurray), Quatre hommes et une prière de John Ford (1938, avec Loretta Young et Richard Greene), Kitty Foyle de Sam Wood (1940, avec Ginger Rogers et Dennis Morgan), ou encore Le Droit d'aimer de Curtis Bernhardt (1946, avec Barbara Stanwyck et George Brent).

Enfin, à la télévision, Cecil Cunningham apparaît dans deux séries dédiées au théâtre, en 1951 (The Bigelow Theatre, un épisode) et 1952 (Four Star Playhouse, un épisode).

Best films

The Awful Truth
The Awful Truth
(1937)
(Actress) Their Own Desire
Their Own Desire
(1929)
(Actress)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Cecil Cunningham (73 films)

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Actress

My Reputation
My Reputation (1946)
, 1h34
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Eve Arden, Lucile Watson, Warner Anderson, Scotty Beckett
Roles Stella Thompson
Rating68% 3.446733.446733.446733.446733.44673
200px When her beloved husband dies after a long illness, Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is comforted by the executor of her husband's estate, lawyer Frank Everett (Warner Anderson), who's been a family friend for years and, later, shows an interest in dating "Jess". Her mother (Lucile Watson) has worn black for decades, since her husband passed, and would love for her daughter to follow her example. Jess has two young boys: Kim (Scotty Beckett), who is fourteen, and Keith (Bobby Cooper), who's twelve. Both go off to school leaving their newly widowed mother at home alone to deal with her loneliness. She tries to reconnect with the "old gang" that she and her husband socialized with while he was alive, but finds they remind her too much of him. She's even accosted by one of them, George Van Orman (Jerome Cowan), when he brings her home one night. Fortunately, she has a real friend in Ginna Abbott (Eve Arden), whom she runs to, and stays with, the night she was accosted. Ginna and her husband Cary (John Ridgely) invite Jess to spend a week's vacation at Lake Tahoe with them.
Wonder Man
Wonder Man (1945)
, 1h38
Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Ghost films, Musical films
Actors Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Donald Woods, S.Z. Sakall, Allen Jenkins
Roles La bonimenteuse
Rating67% 3.396293.396293.396293.396293.39629
Danny Kaye plays a double role as a pair of estranged "super-identical twins", with very similar looks, but very different personalities. Buster Dingle, who goes by the stage name "Buzzy Bellew", is a loud and goofy performer at a classy nightclub (the Pelican Club), while Edwin Dingle is a studious, quiet bookworm writing a history book. The two brothers have not seen each other for years.
In Old Oklahoma
In Old Oklahoma (1943)
, 1h42
Directed by Sidney Blackmer, Albert Dekker, Paul Fix, George "Gabby" Hayes, John Wayne, Grant Withers, Marjorie Rambeau, Martha Scott, Dale Evans, Albert S. Rogell
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors John Wayne, Martha Scott, Albert Dekker, George "Gabby" Hayes, Marjorie Rambeau, Dale Evans
Roles Mrs. Ames
Rating63% 3.1989353.1989353.1989353.1989353.198935
Eastern school teacher Catherine Allen becomes notorious in 1906 when it is learned that she has authored a romance novel. She decides to move West and begin a new life.
Du Barry was a Lady
Du Barry was a Lady (1943)
, 1h41
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Virginia O'Brien, Zero Mostel, Rags Ragland
Roles Wife Checking Her Coat
Rating60% 3.049883.049883.049883.049883.04988
May Daly, une danseuse, est aimée par deux hommes : Louis Blore et Alec Howe. Par rivalité, Louis verse une drogue dans le verre d'Alec, mais par erreur il boit lui-même le verre. Louis rêve alors qu'il est Louis XV et retrouve May en Madame du Barry.
Above Suspicion
Above Suspicion (1943)
, 1h30
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Basil Rathbone, Conrad Veidt, Reginald Owen, Richard Ainley
Roles Countess
Rating64% 3.2480753.2480753.2480753.2480753.248075
In the spring of 1939 in England, Oxford University professor Richard Myles (Fred MacMurray) and his new bride Frances (Joan Crawford) decide to honeymoon on the continent. Because they are American tourists and therefore "above suspicion," they find themselves commissioned by the British secret service to find an apparently missing scientist who has developed a countermeasure against a new Nazi secret weapon, a magnetic sea mine. Without knowing his name, what he looks like, or where to find him, the couple look upon the search as adventurous and cross Europe seeking clues from clandestine contacts.
Cairo
Cairo (1942)
, 1h41
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Spy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about writers, Spy films, Films about journalists, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Reginald Owen, Ethel Waters, Lionel Atwill, Grant Mitchell
Roles Mme. Laruga
Rating60% 3.049293.049293.049293.049293.04929
Marcia Warren (Jeanette MacDonald), while "between pictures" in London hires an American reporter, Homer Smith (Robert Young) as her butler. What Marcia doesn't know is that Smith is an American newspaperman, who strongly suspects that she is a Nazi spy (the real enemy agent is Mrs. Morrison (Mona Barrie).
The Affairs of Martha
The Affairs of Martha (1942)
, 1h6
Directed by Jules Dassin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Marsha Hunt, Richard Carlson, Marjorie Main, Virginia Weidler, Spring Byington, Allyn Joslyn
Roles Mrs. Llewellyn Castle
Rating64% 3.2432553.2432553.2432553.2432553.243255
The peace and quiet enjoyed by the residents of the exclusive neighborhood of Rock Bay, Long Island is disturbed by a newspaper gossip column tidbit that one of their maids is writing a tell-all book about her employers. Since the author is not identified, each family fears that its secrets will be aired in public. Among those confused and distraught are Dr. Sommerfield (Melville Cooper) and his wife Sophia (Spring Byington). Their teenage daughter Miranda (Virginia Weidler), however, is thrilled. Their longtime cook Mrs. McKessic (Marjorie Main) arranges a meeting of the neighborhood servants, in which they decide to band together against the attempts by many of their employers to spy on them to learn who the writer is.
Cowboy Serenade
Cowboy Serenade (1942)
, 1h6
Directed by Smiley Burnette, Gene Autry, Fay McKenzie, William Morgan
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Cecil Cunningham, Addison Richards, Rand Brooks
Roles Priscilla Lock
Rating65% 3.2676553.2676553.2676553.2676553.267655
As president of the Flagpole Cattlemen's Association, singing cowboy Gene Autry (Gene Autry) entrusts the sale of the association's large cattle herd to young Jimmy Agnew (Rand Brooks), who is so thrilled with the opportunity that he proposes marriage to his girlfriend, Millie Jackson (Linda Leighton). The next day, while traveling to Hays City with the cattle, Jimmy is persuaded to join a poker game by two crooked gamblers, Dixie Trambeau (Tristram Coffin) and Joe Crowley (John Berkes), who fleece the naive cattleman and force him at gun point to turn over the power of attorney authorizing them to sell the cattle. Ashamed at his blunder, Jimmy goes into hiding.
Twin Beds
Twin Beds (1942)
, 1h25
Directed by Tim Whelan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors George Brent, Joan Bennett, Mischa Auer, Una Merkel, Glenda Farrell, Margaret Hamilton
Roles Miss MacMahon, Secretary
Rating52% 2.6320952.6320952.6320952.6320952.632095
Even as they walk down the aisle to be joined in holy matrimony, Julie and Mike Abbott argue about her extensive involvement in the USO. For starters, her obligations are in the way of their honeymoon trip.
The Hidden Hand
The Hidden Hand (1942)
, 1h3
Directed by Benjamin Stoloff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop, Frank Wilcox, Cecil Cunningham, Ruth Ford
Roles Lorinda Channing
Rating60% 3.049973.049973.049973.049973.04997
John Channing (Milton Parsons) is as insane-asylum escapee. In her efforts to protect her brother from the authorities, John's sister Lorinda (Cecil Cunningham) opens the door for a series of grisly murders. Peter Thorne (Craig Stevens) and Mary Winfield (Elizabeth Fraser) try to stop John before he kills again.