Cecile Arnold

Cecile Arnold

Cecile Arnold (1891 or 1895–1931) was an American silent film actress and Ziegfeld Follies girl.

Life

She was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1891^[1][2] or in New York City in 1895.^[3][4] Born Cecile Laval Arnoux,^[5][6] the blonde known for playing femme fatales was a Ziegfeld Follies girl before moving to Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios in 1913.^[3][7] She appeared in at least fifty films with notables such as Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Mack Swain and Charlie Chaplin's half brother Syd.^[8] She ended her film career in 1917 to marry a banker and relocated to the Orient where she died in Hong Kong of a particularly virulent strain of influenza in 1931.^[3][9]

Selected filmography

• The Property Man (1914)
• The Face on the Bar Room Floor (1914)
• His New Profession (1914)
• The Rounders (1914)
• He Loved the Ladies (1914)
• Stout Hearts But Weak Knees (1914)
• The Masquerader (1914)
• Those Love Pangs (1914)
• Dough and Dynamite (1914)
• Gentlemen of Nerve (1914)
• Cursed by His Beauty (1914)
• His Musical Career (1914)
• His Talented Wife (1914)
• Fatty's Wine Party (1914)
• His Taking Ways (1914)
• Leading Lizzie Astray (1914)

References