Movie Star Mystery Photo

Los Angeles Times file photo Aileen Pringle in the play "Tons of Money," 1932. Our mystery movie star of the week is Aileen Pringle, Please congratulate Diane Ely, Floradora, Bob Birchard, Dewey Webb, Peter Mintun, Dru Duniway, Cynthia Keillor, Sam, R. Ahuna and Alekszandr for correctly identifying her. Check back Monday for another mystery photo! Just a reminder on how this works: I post the mystery photo on Monday and reveal the answer on Friday. To keep the mystery photo from getting lost in the other entries, I move it from Monday to Tuesday to Wednesday, etc., adding a photo every day. I have to approve all comments, so if your guess is posted immediately, that means you're wrong. (And if a wrong guess has already been submitted by someone else, there's no point in submitting it again.) If you're right, you will have to wait until Friday. There's no need to submit your guess five times. Once is enough. The only prize is bragging rights.  The answer to last week's photo: Diana Sands. Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Aileen Pringle, 1932. Here's another photo of our mystery woman. Please congratulate Anne Papineau, Eve Golden and Diane Ely for identifying her. This print was butchered down to a one-column mug shot. Isn't it a great photo? Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Aileen Pringle and Helen Johnson in "Soldiers and Women," 1930. Los Angeles Times file photo Aileen Pringle, 1934. Her Mexican divorce caused trouble for ex-husband Charles McKenzie because it was not recognized under English law.   Photograph by the Los Angeles Times Aileen Pringle discusses divorce from novelist James M. Cain, Sept. 5, 1946. Aileen Pringle, 94; Star of Silent Screen December 19, 1989 Aileen Pringle, an urbane socialite who became a silent-screen star and the darling of such literary figures as H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, died Saturday in her Manhattan home where she had entertained regularly since her retirement from movies nearly 50 years ago. She was 94. Miss Pringle played leading roles in more than 60 films. Two of her best known--"His Hour" and "Three Weeks"--were based on scripts by Elinor Glyn. Miss Glyn had hand-picked Miss Pringle for the latter role, that of a sensual heroine. Known for her sometimes off-color wisecracks as the silent camera captured her movements, she was credited with a notable piece of Hollywood lore. According to the book "The Movies," Miss Pringle and Conrad Nagel were filming a scene from "Three Weeks" in which he was carrying her horizontally. Her lips are seen to move and, according to the book, she was not whispering words of endearment to Nagel but was saying, "If you drop me, you bastard, I'll break your neck." Her other leading men included John Gilbert in adventure movies and Lew Cody in domestic farces. Among her other films were "Souls for Sale," "Earthbound," "Wife of the Centaur," "A Kiss in the Dark," "Soul Mates," "Beau Broadway" and "Puttin' on the Ritz." She continued in films after the advent of sound but never with the impact of her earlier pictures. She made brief appearances in two films of the 1940s, "Laura" and "Since You Went Away," before retiring. Born Aileen Bisbee in San Francisco to a wealthy family, she was educated in private schools in Europe and first went on the stage in 1915. Her first film was "Redhead" in 1919. Her first husband was Charles McKenzie Pringle, son of a former governor of Jamaica, and her second was James M. Cain, author of "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and "Mildred Pierce." Both marriages ended in divorce, the second in 1946 after less than a year. Cain died in 1977.

Comments

[Anne Papineau]

Eileen Pringle?

[Anne Papineau]

Dorothy Sebastian?

[Eve]

Hmmm, is she Aileen Pringle?

[Nick Santa Maria]

Dorothy Sebastion.

[Mary Mallory]

Evelyn Brent.

[Diane Ely]

Aileen Pringle?

[Sam]

Viola Dana

[Cynthia Keillor]

Mary Alden.

[Kitty]

Marion Davies

[Sam]

BEBE DANIELS

[Nancy]

Ethel Merman

[Edward Cradduck]

Could be silent star Bessie Love?

[annie frye]

Vilma Banky?

[Eliza]

Chloe Sevigny. It's gotta be.

[Danielle]

Margaret Hamilton?

[Mary Mallory]

June Collyer.

[Richard Heft]

Una Merkel?

[Floradora]

Aileen Pringle

[Claire Lockhart]

Natalie Moorhead

[Eve]

Claire, even though you didn't guess right, I am incredibly impressed that you are one of the 1 in 100 people who can correctly spell Natalie Moorhead's name!

[frieda406]

danielle, i had the identical thought: margaret hamilton, i'll copy you and go w/MH

[Gerry]

gale sondergaard

[cody]

mae west

[annie frye]

Is it not Renee Adoree? I couldn't find it in the comments.

[Jane Bryant]

Gracie Allen?