Aileen Pringle

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aileen Pringle, 1926

Aileen Pringle (born July 23, 1895 in San Francisco , California - † December 16, 1989 in New York City , New York ; actually Aileen Bisbee ) was an American actress .

Life

Aileen Pringle was the daughter of wealthy parents and was raised in Europe. She made her debut as an actress in London in 1915, where she married her first husband, Lord Charles McKenzie Pringle, a plantation owner in Jamaica and later Governor of the Bahamas . After returning to the US, she quickly made the leap to Broadway , where she appeared alongside George Arliss , among others . In 1919 she signed a film contract with Samuel Goldwyn and rose to become a popular actress in romantic love stories. She had her greatest successes in 1924 in two film adaptations of novels by the then popular author Elinor Glyn , Love Vacation of a Queen and His Hour . Both films were very daring for their time in their portrayal of sexuality and the open handling of taboo topics such as adultery and female self-determination. At that time, her partner was often the actor John Gilbert , for example in The Wife of the Centaur , a dramatic story about two unhappily in love people who have to endure many strokes of fate.

Aileen Pringle seemed to have a promising career ahead of her when various companies merged to form MGM , but the arrival of Greta Garbo and changing public tastes caused her popularity to decline rapidly. Pringle lost the lead role in Tides of Passion to Garbo and was limited to supporting roles for a while. Towards the end of the decade, she made some sort of comeback alongside Lew Cody in a series of slightly frivolous comedies. Especially her first film Adam and Evil showed Aileen Pringle no longer as a vamp, but as a witty lady of better society. With the advent of talkies, Pringle's career quickly dwindled and she ended her active career as an extra. She lived in great prosperity in New York for the remaining decades. The actress was considered highly intelligent, but also arrogant and not very cooperative with the gossip press. She had a long friendship with the author Henry L. Mencken .

In his second marriage, Pringle was married to the author James M. Cain . The marriage was short and stormy. She wrote to a friend about the reasons for the divorce:

"If I were still married to that crazy Cain, I'd wear a straitjacket instead of the New Look ."

Aileen Pringle was one of the parties which aboard the luxury yacht in 1924 Oneida by William Randolph Hearst were when the film producer Thomas Ince came mysteriously to death.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Aileen Pringle  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ If I had remained married to that psychotic Cain, I would be wearing a straight jacket instead of the New Look.
personal data
SURNAME Pringle, Aileen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bisbee, Aileen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California , United States
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1989
Place of death New York City , New York , United States