Cecil Cunningham
Cecil Cunningham | |
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Cecil Cunningham (middle) with Carole Lombard, in Swing High, Swing Low (1937) | |
Born |
St. Louis, Missouri, United States | August 2, 1888
Died |
April 17, 1959 70) Los Angeles, California. USA | (aged
Resting place | Chapel Of The Pines Crematory |
Occupation | Film actress |
Years active | 1929-1957 |
Spouse(s) | Jean C. Havez (1915-1917) (divorced) |
Cecil Cunningham (August 2, 1888 – April 17, 1959) was an American film and stage actress. She 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.
Cunningham was a Hollywood character actress with whitish hair cut like a man's, often in roles as a general "know-it-all". She made more than 80 appearances in movies between 1929 and 1946, many of them uncredited.[1]
Her remains are interred in Chapel of the Pines Crematory.[2]
Complete filmography
- Their Own Desire (1929)
- Paramount on Parade (1930) (uncredited)
- Anybody's Woman (1930)
- Playboy of Paris (1930)
- Trouble from Abroad (1931 short)
- Monkey Business (1931) (uncredited)
- Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)
- The Age for Love (1931)
- Safe in Hell (1931)
- Mata Hari (1931) (uncredited)
- Never the Twins Shall Meet (1932 short)
- Impatient Maiden (1932)
- The Wet Parade (1932) (uncredited)
- It's Tough to Be Famous (1932) (uncredited)
- Just a Pain in the Parlor (1932 short)
- The Rich Are Always with Us (1932) (uncredited)
- Love Is a Racket (1932)
- Is My Face Red? (1932) (uncredited)
- The Candid Camera (1932 short)
- Love Me Tonight (1932) (uncredited)
- Those We Love (1932)
- Blonde Venus (1932) (uncredited)
- If I Had a Million (1932) (uncredited)
- Ladies They Talk About (1933) (uncredited)
- From Hell to Heaven (1933)
- The Druggist's Dilemma (1933 short)
- Bottoms Up (1934) (uncredited)
- Manhattan Love Song (1934)
- The Life of Vergie Winters (1934)
- Return of the Terror (1934)
- We Live Again (1934) (uncredited)
- People Will Talk (1935)
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1935) (uncredited)
- Come and Get It (1936)
- Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
- King of Gamblers (1937)
- Artists and Models (1937)
- This Way Please (1937)
- The Awful Truth (1937)
- Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
- Scandal Street (1938)
- Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
- College Swing (1938)
- Kentucky Moonshine (1938)
- You and Me (1938)
- Wives Under Suspicion (1938)
- Blond Cheat (1938)
- Marie Antoinette (1938) (uncredited)
- Girls' School (1938)
- The Family Next Door (1939)
- It's a Wonderful World (1939)
- Winter Carnival (1939)
- Lady of the Tropics (1939)
- Laugh It Off (1939)
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) (uncredited)
- Lillian Russell (1940)
- The Captain Is a Lady (1940)
- New Moon (1940)
- Kitty Foyle (1940)
- Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941) (uncredited)
- Play Girl (1941) (uncredited)
- Back Street (1941)
- Repent at Leisure (1941)
- Hurry, Charlie, Hurry (1941)
- Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
- The Feminine Touch (1941) (uncredited)
- Cowboy Serenade (1942)
- The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)
- Twin Beds (1942) (uncredited)
- Are Husbands Necessary? (1942)
- The Affairs of Martha (1942)
- I Married an Angel (1942) (uncredited)
- Cairo (1942)
- The Hidden Hand (1942)
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942) (uncredited)
- Above Suspicion (1943)
- Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) (uncredited)
- In Old Oklahoma (1943)
- The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) (scenes cut)
- Wonder Man (1945) (uncredited)
- My Reputation (1946)
- The Bride Goes Wild (1948) (scenes cut)
- Joyful Hour (1960 TV movie)
References
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cecil Cunningham. |
- Cecil Cunningham on IMDb
- Cecil Cunningham at the Internet Broadway Database
- Cecil Cunningham at Find a Grave