Cecil Cunningham
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cecil Cunningham (August 2, 1888 – April 17, 1959) was an American film and stage actress. With whitish hair cut like a man's, she was a Hollywood character actress, often cast in roles as a general "know-it-all". She made more than 80 appearances in movies between 1929 and 1946, many of them uncredited. Cunningham started her working life as a switchboard operator in a commerce bank and did some sittings as a photographer's model. Her first show business job was in the chorus line of 'Mademoiselle Modiste' at the age of eighteen. Cunningham trained as a singer and appeared in opera. She worked as a vaudeville comedian at the Palace Theatre in New York City until the commencement of her movie career in 1929.
Born: August 2, 1888
Place of Birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Known For
The Impatient Maiden
A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
The Awful Truth
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
From Hell to Heaven
The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in different ways.
Back Street
In turn-of-the-century Cincinnati, vibrant shop girl Ray Smith falls in love with banker Walter Saxel, who is engaged to a socially prominent woman. Inadvertently prevented from running away with Walter, Ray remains single but reunites with him five years later. Despite Walter being married and having a son, Ray becomes his mistress, and over the years suffers social ostracism and long stretches of solitude while waiting for their brief interludes together.
My Reputation
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.
Playboy of Paris
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.
King of Gamblers
Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her employer is the secret head of the city's major gambling machine racket and has a penchant for murdering anyone who gets in his way.
Blonde Venus
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
Come and Get It
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Stella Thompson
as Mrs. Ames
as Wife Checking Her Coat (uncredited)
as Countess
as Lorinda Channing
as Mrs. Whitman
as Mme. Laruga
as Mrs. Llewellyn Castle
as Miss MacMahon, Secretary
as Countess Oldenburg
as Priscilla Lock
as Party Guest (uncredited)
as Mrs. Marcus Gilworth
as Mrs. Diana Boone
as Mrs. Morgan
as Mrs. Miller
as Dowager at Concert (uncredited)
as Grandmother
as Governor's Wife
as Mrs. Jane Homans
as Mrs. Hobbs
as Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited)
as Countess Berichi
as Miss Ainsley
as Madame J. L. Chambers
as Cora Stewart
as Miss Brewster
as Mme. 'Feldy' de Lerchenfeld (uncredited)
as Genevieve Trent
as "Sharpy"
as Mrs. Morris
as Landlady
as Dean Sleet
as Piper
as Maybelle Murphy
as Mrs. Mary Hunt
as Mrs. Alvin
as Aunt Patsy
as Miss Eberhardt
as Stella
as Big Edna
as Murphy
as Josie
as (uncredited)
as Nellie Simpson
as Theodosia
as Miss Doolittle
as Pearl Turner
as Pancake Annie Jones
as Mrs. Chadman
as Mrs. Arlington (uncredited)
as Agnes - Emily's Friend (uncredited)
as Cabaret Manager in Norfolk (uncredited)
as Mrs. Henry Abbott
as Laundress (uncredited)
as Aunt Hattie Donovan
as Millionaire's Wife
as Woman Talking with Julian at Party (uncredited)
as Mrs. Twombey - Hotel Guest (uncredited)
as Mrs. Rosy
as Gambler Selling Ring (uncredited)
as Angie
as Pamela
as Madame Panoramia aka Pansy
as Mlle. Hedwige
as Dot
as Society Woman ('Impulses') (uncredited)
as Aunt Caroline