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Nationality United-kingdomBirth 24 september 1878Death 1 may 1951 (at 72 years) at Los Angeles (
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Nora Cecil was an American character actress whose thirty year career spanned both the silent and sound film eras. She appeared in well over 100 feature films and film shorts. Her 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 in 1901-02. In 1915 she would transition 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. Cecil's final acting performance was in a featured role in the classic Mourning Becomes Electra in 1947, starring Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, and Kirk Douglas. Cecil died on May 1, 1951 in Los Angeles, California. Biography
Installée aux États-Unis, Nora Cecil joue une fois à Broadway (New York) en 1901-1902, dans la comédie musicale The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast.
Au cinéma, dès la période du muet, elle contribue à près de deux-cents films américains — comme second rôle de caractère ou dans des petits rôles non crédités —, depuis Jimmy le mystérieux de Maurice Tourneur (1915, avec Robert Warwick dans le rôle-titre) jusqu'à Le deuil sied à Électre de Dudley Nichols (1947, avec Rosalind Russell et Michael Redgrave).
Entretemps, mentionnons Prunella du même Maurice Tourneur (1918, avec Marguerite Clark et Jules Raucourt), Le Réquisitoire de Cecil B. DeMille (1922, avec Leatrice Joy et Thomas Meighan), Doctor Bull de John Ford (1933, avec Will Rogers et Marian Nixon), La Vie facile de Mitchell Leisen (1937, avec Jean Arthur et Edward Arnold), ou encore Ma femme est une sorcière de René Clair (1942, avec Fredric March et Veronica Lake).
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