Nora Cecil
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Nora Cecil has appeared in front of a camera professionally, though few details of her career have been documented. Screen work stretches over 111 years of her life. The character Miss Peavy in 'The Thin Man Goes Home' is her clearest credit. 'The Bitter Tea of General Yen' is a further entry in the filmography. If there is a pattern, it is comedy.
Nora Cecil
122 Movies
Nora Cecil has appeared in front of a camera professionally, though few details of her career have been documented. Screen work stretches over 111 years of her life. The character Miss Peavy in 'The Thin Man Goes Home' is her clearest credit. 'The Bitter Tea of General Yen' is a further entry in the filmography. If there is a pattern, it is comedy.
Movies
Plays Miss Swerf
Easy Living
1937
Plays Miss Peavy
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944
Plays Miss Jenkins
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939
Plays Missionary
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932
Plays Aunt Emily Banning
Doctor Bull
1933
Plays Mrs. Twitchett
Mixed Nuts
1934
Plays Townswoman at Party
Way Down East
1935
Plays Louisa Ames
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947
Plays Mrs. Price
You're Telling Me!
1934
Plays Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
Street Scene
1931
Plays Head of Orphanage
Little Men
1940
Plays Briarcroft's Teacher
Going Hollywood
1933
Plays Miss Millie
The Missing Lady
1946
Plays Miss Tuttle, Principal
Girl Grief
1932
Plays Casket Customer
Three Girls About Town
1941
Plays Julia
The Devil Dancer
1927
Plays English Woman
International Settlement
1938
Plays Charwoman
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941
Plays Miss Updike
The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942
Plays Mrs. Wendelschaffer
The Old-Fashioned Way
1934
Plays Amelia Twymley
Seven Days Leave
1930
Plays Smythe (maid)
Peg o' My Heart
1933
Plays Widow Peddie
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
1938
Plays Matron Helen Hunt
Girls
1927
Plays Mrs. Cecil
Mr. Bride
1932
Plays Schoolteacher
Laughing Boy
1934
Plays Miss Pettigrew
Search for Beauty
1934
Plays Charity Bazaar Committee
East Lynne
1931
Plays Home Economics Woman
The Big Broadcast of 1937
1936
Plays Mrs. Lodge
Sensation Seekers
1927
Plays Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
Three Smart Boys
1937
Plays Old Witch
Seven Footprints to Satan
1929
Plays Townswoman
Timothy's Quest
1922
Plays Female Police Officer
Asleep in the Feet
1933
Plays Lucia's Aunt
The Cavalier
1928
Plays Duchess
The Spectacle Maker
1934
Plays Dr. Cecil Grantham
Chip of the Flying U
1926
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Mourning Becomes Electra
Louisa Ames
1947
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The Sea of Grass
Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
1947
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Big Town
Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
1946
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The Missing Lady
Miss Millie
1946
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The Thin Man Goes Home
Miss Peavy
1944
Film
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
1944
Film
Hail the Conquering Hero
Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
1944
Film
The Unknown Guest
Martha Williams
1943
Film
I Married a Witch
Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
1942
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Nora Cecil still alive?
Nora Cecil passed away on May 1, 1951 at age 72.
What are the most famous roles of Nora Cecil?
Nora Cecil is best known for roles in Stagecoach, Fury, I Married a Witch.
How many movies has Nora Cecil been in?
Over a 36-year career (since 1915), Nora Cecil has appeared in 122 movies and 0 TV shows.
What was Nora Cecil's first movie?
The career of Nora Cecil began with The Arrival of Perpetua (1915).
What is Nora Cecil's most recent movie or series?
Nora Cecil's most recent release is Mourning Becomes Electra, which premiered on November 19, 1947.
Nora Cecil
1878-09-24 · London, England, UK
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.