🎬Nora Cecil

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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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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)	Louisa Ames	-	-
2	Lady on a Train (1945)	-		3
3	The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)	Miss Peavy		9
4	The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)	Hospital Nurse (uncredited)		6
5	Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)	Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)		3
6	I Married a Witch (1942)	Harriet Wooley (uncredited)		8.5
7	Three Girls About Town (1941)	Casket Customer		8
8	The Bank Dick (1940)	Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)		5
9	The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)	Miss Jenkins	-	-
10	Union Pacific (1939)	Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)		7
11	Stagecoach (1939)	Boone's Landlady (uncredited)		7
12	Easy Living (1937)	Miss Swerf		6.5
13	Nothing Sacred (1937)	Schoolteacher (uncredited)		6
14	Night Must Fall (1937)	-		6
15	Fury (1936)	Albert's Mother (uncredited)		6
16	Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)	Housekeeper (uncredited)		5.5
17	The Merry Widow (1934)	Animal Woman (uncredited)		8
18	Going Hollywood (1933)	Briarcroft's Teacher		6
19	Design for Living (1933)	Tom's Secretary (uncredited)		6.7
20	The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)	Missionary		4
21	Arrowsmith (1931)	Nurse (uncredited)		2
22	East Lynne (1931)	Charity Bazaar Committee		3
23	Street Scene (1931)	Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker		7
24	Hell's Angels (1930)	Helen's Maid (uncredited)		7
25	The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930)	-	-	-
26	Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)	Old Witch		6
27	Sensation Seekers (1927)	Mrs. Lodge		5
28	The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)	One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)		7.5