Aileen Pringle

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

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	6.881
Birthday	1895-07-23
Place of Birth	San Francisco, California, USA
Also Known As	Aileen Bisbee,

The Phantom of Crestwood

Convicted

A Kiss in the Dark

Murder at Midnight

The Age of Consent

Piccadilly Jim

Jane Eyre

The Unguarded Hour

Thanks for Listening

Soldiers and Women

John Meade's Woman

Police Court

Name the Man

By Appointment Only

Sons of Steel

She's No Lady

Dream of Love

The Christian

Three Weeks

True As Steel

A Thief in Paradise

Night Parade

Souls for Sale

Stolen Moments

Wanted: Jane Turner

Earthbound

The Hardys Ride High

Calling Dr. Kildare

The Women

Body and Soul

Should a Girl Marry?

The Mystic

Laura

The Great Deception

Puttin' on the Ritz

Happy Land

Since You Went Away

Between Us Girls

Vanessa: Her Love Story

Wife vs. Secretary

Nothing Sacred

They Died with Their Boots On

Tin Gods

Appointment for Love

Life in Hollywood No. 7

My American Wife

Wall Street

Prince of Diamonds

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

The Baby Cyclone

Camille: The Fate of a Coquette

1925 Studio Tour

His Hour

Adam and Evil

The Tiger's Claw

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

Subway Express

The Wife of the Centaur

Don't Marry for Money

The Strangers' Banquet

A Single Man

The Night of Nights

Criminal Lawyer

Love Past Thirty

One Year to Live