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Nora Cecil (September 20, 1878 - September 26, 1951) 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=American Film Institute )〕 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"〔(IMDb Biography )〕 and "welfare workers, landladies, schoolmistresses and maiden aunts".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=AllMovie )〕 One of the most significant roles was in the W.C. Fields vehicle, ''The Old Fashioned Way'' in 1934.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=AllMovie )〕 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. ==Filmography (feature films)== (Per AFI database)〔 * ''The Arrival of Perpetua'' (1915) * ''Alias Jimmy Valentine'' (1915) * ''The Wild Girl'' (1917) (as Norah Cecile) * ''Royal Romance'' (1917) * ''American Buds'' (1918) * ''By Hook or Crook'' (1918) * ''The Love Net'' (1918) * ''The Zero Hour'' (1918) * ''The Appearance of Evil'' (1918) * ''The Power and the Glory'' (1918) * ''Prunella'' (1918) * ''Miss Crusoe'' (1919) * ''Woman, Woman!'' (1919) * ''The Daughter Pays'' (1920) * ''Manslaughter'' (1922) * ''Darwin Was Right'' (1924) * ''The Deadwood Coach'' (1924) * ''His Majesty, Bunker Bean'' (1925) * ''Chip of the Flying U'' (1926) * ''Midnight Faces'' (1926) * ''The Passionate Quest'' (1926) * ''The Demi-Bride'' (1927) * ''The Devil Dancer'' (1927) * ''The Fortune Hunter'' (1927) * ''Sensation Seekers'' (1927) * ''The Silent Rider'' (1927) * ''The Cavalier'' (1928) * ''The Baby Cyclone'' (1928) * ''Driftwood'' (1928) * ''Seven Footprints to Satan'' (1929) * ''The Little Accident'' (1930) * ''Only Saps Work'' (1930) * ''Outward Bound'' (1930) * ''Seven Days Leave'' (1930) * ''Street Scene'' (1931) * ''Caught Plastered'' (1931) * ''The Ruling Voice'' (1931) * ''Stepping Sisters'' (1932) * ''Doctor Bull'' (1933) * ''The Bitter Tea of General Yen'' (1933) * ''Peg O' My Heart'' (1933) * ''Design for Living'' (1933) * ''Laughing Boy'' (1934) * ''The Old Fashioned Way'' (1934) * ''You're Telling Me!'' (1934) * ''Upperworld'' (1934) * ''6 Day Bike Rider'' (1934) * ''Glamour'' (1934) * ''Chained'' (1934) * ''The Merry Widow'' (1934) * ''Pursued'' (1934) * ''Search for Beauty'' (1934) * ''Once to Every Woman'' (1934) * ''Gold Diggers of 1935'' (1935) * ''Collegiate'' (1935) * ''Car 99'' (1935) * ''Way Down East'' (1935) * ''Vagabond Lady'' (1935) * ''Woman Wanted'' (1935) * ''Grand Exit'' (1935) * ''Dancing Pirate'' (1936) * ''Poppy'' (1936) * ''Fury'' (1936) * ''Career Woman'' (1936) * ''College Holiday'' (1936) * ''Girl of the Ozarks'' (1936) * ''Little Miss Nobody'' (1936) * ''Laughing at Trouble'' (1936) * ''We Went to College'' (1936) * ''Nothing Sacred'' (1937) * ''Champagne Waltz'' (1937) * ''The Mighty Treve'' (1937) * ''Easy Living'' (1937) * ''Night of Mystery'' (1937) * ''Blossoms on Broadway'' (1937) * ''Borrowing Trouble'' (1937) * ''She Asked for It'' (1937) * ''Partners in Crime'' (1937) * ''King of Alcatraz'' (1938) * ''Mr. Boggs Steps Out'' (1938) * ''International Settlement'' (1938) * ''No Time to Marry'' (1938) * ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1939) * ''Stagecoach'' (1939) * ''The Story of Alexander Graham Bell'' (1939) * ''Union Pacific'' (1939) * ''Saint Louis Blues'' (1939) * ''What a Life'' (1939) * ''Anne of Windy Poplars'' (1940) * ''Lucky Partners'' (1940) * ''Those Were the Days!'' (1940) * ''The Captain Is a Lady'' (1940) * ''Young People'' (1940) * ''Queen of the Mob'' (1940) * ''A Girl, a Guy and a Gob'' (1941) * ''It Started with Eve'' (1941) * ''Three Girls About Town'' (1941) * ''Unexpected Uncle'' (1941) * ''Little Men'' (1941) * ''Apache Trail'' (1942) * ''Call Out the Marines'' (1942) * ''Daring Young Man'' (1942) * ''I Married a Witch'' (1942) * ''Jail House Blues'' (1942) * ''Obliging Young Lady'' (1942) * ''Tish'' (1942) * ''The Wife Takes a Flyer'' (1942) * ''Unknown Guest'' (1943) * ''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek'' (1944) * ''Together Again'' (1944) * ''The Thin Man Goes Home'' (1945) * ''Lady on a Train'' (1945) * ''Molly and Me'' (1945) * ''Johnny Comes Flying Home'' (1946) * ''The Kid from Brooklyn'' (1946) * ''The Missing Lady'' (1946) * ''No Leave, No Love'' (1946) * ''Two Sisters from Boston'' (1946) * ''Hollywood Bound'' (1946) * ''Mourning Becomes Electra'' (1947) * ''The Sea of Grass'' (1947) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nora Cecil」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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