Biography
Aileen Pringle's favorite film was a mid-1920s silent based on a book by Elinor Glyn: Three Weeks (1924), sort of a "Lady Chatterly's Lover". She recalled in a 1980 telephone conversation: "The film was in good taste; some people thought the book was trashy". Anita Loos wrote in "A Girl Like I", the first volume of her autobiography, vaudeville comic Joe Frisco telling Glynn: "Leave me get this straight. You want to find some tramp that don't look like a tramp, to play that English tramp in your...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Laura
1944
as Woman (uncredited)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

Since You Went Away
1944
as Woman at Cocktail Lounge (uncredited)
In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind ...

Happy Land
1943
as Mrs. Prentiss (uncredited)
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he h...

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943
as Chaperon (uncredited)
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which...

Between Us Girls
1942
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter.

They Died with Their Boots On
1941
as Mrs. Sharp (uncredited)
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains th...

Appointment for Love
1941
as Nurse Gibbons (uncredited)
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progress...

The Night of Nights
1939
as Dress Saleslady (uncredited)
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival o...

The Women
1939
as Miss Carter the Saleslady (uncredited)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

Should a Girl Marry?
1939
as Mrs. White
A young woman and her doctor husband are victims of a blackmail scheme when it is discovered that she was born in prison.

Calling Dr. Kildare
1939
as Mrs. Thatcher (uncredited)
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. Wh...

The Hardys Ride High
1939
as Miss Booth
Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2 million...

Nothing Sacred
1937
as Mrs. Bullock (uncredited)
When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.

She's No Lady
1937
as Mrs. Douglas
Alden "Bill" Carter III sees a beautiful woman, Jerry, dining alone at the Park Savoy in New York, and after a brief flirtation, introduces himself. A...
Thanks for Listening
1937
as Lulu
Homer Tompkins, a trusting young musician with aspirations of becoming a radio star, is installed in a fine set of offices in Reno by a quartet of con...

John Meade's Woman
1937
as Mrs. Melton
"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she meets "lumber king" John Meade. John takes her in...

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937
as Lady Maria Frinton
A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.

Criminal Lawyer
1937
as Mrs. Manning (uncredited)
Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police rai...

Wanted: Jane Turner
1936
as Norris' Secretary (uncredited)
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.

Piccadilly Jim
1936
as Paducah Pomeroy
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with L...

The Unguarded Hour
1936
as Diana Roggers
A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man.

Wife vs. Secretary
1936
as Mrs. Anne Barker (uncredited)
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional...

Vanessa: Her Love Story
1935
as Herries Servant
The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.

Sons of Steel
1934
as Enid Chadburne
Chadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons. Curtis (Holmes Herbert) has put Ronald (William Blakew...

Jane Eyre
1934
as Lady Blanche Ingram
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...
Love Past Thirty
1934
as Caroline Burt
When a woman's boyfriend dumps her for a younger girl, she hatches a scheme to get revenge by going after the girl's former boyfriend.

By Appointment Only
1933
as Diane Manners
When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn't save her--takes an interest in th...

The Phantom of Crestwood
1932
as Mrs. Walcott
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.

The Age of Consent
1932
as Barbara
College co-eds struggle with the moral, societal and human aspects of romance.

Police Court
1932
as Diana McCormick
A once great stage and screen actor has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son is determined to see his father "make good" again.

Convicted
1931
as Claire Norville
A criminologist investigates the murder of a Broadway producer on an ocean liner.

Murder at Midnight
1931
as Esme Kennedy
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologis...

Subway Express
1931
as Dale Tracy
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual-and-unusual suspec...

Soldiers and Women
1930
as Brenda Ritchie
Captain Clive Branch, United States Marine Corps, is stationed at a Marine base in Haiti, and is having affairs with two women, Brenda Ritchie and Hel...

Prince of Diamonds
1930
as Eve Marley
Eve Marley (Aileen Pringle)is forced to marry a wealthy jeweler that she does not love in order to save the man she loves, Rupert Endon (Ian Keith), f...

Puttin' on the Ritz
1930
as Mrs. Teddy Van Rennsler
A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.

Wall Street
1929
as Ann Tabor
A very topical early talkie from low-budget company Columbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph Ince, brother of producer Thomas H. Ince, as Roller M...

Night Parade
1929
as Paula Vernoff
Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to ensna...

A Single Man
1929
as Mary Hazeltine
Robin Worthington (Lew Cody), a middle-aged man attracted by a young woman, at first avoids her, then falls for her. He undergoes a profound change in...

Dream of Love
1928
as The Duchess
A duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, the duke's wife and a gypsy girl Adrienne. Years la...

The Baby Cyclone
1928
as Lydia
A woman thinks a small dog is an angel pet in this silent comedy.

Wickedness Preferred
1928
as Kitty Dare
He couldn't help it if the girls all fell for him. But his wife certainly cramped his romantic style!

Body and Soul
1927
as Hilda
A disgraced alcoholic surgeon settles in a small village in the Swiss Alps. He falls for Hilda, a servant at the hotel where he lives. He tricks her i...
Adam and Evil
1927
A wealthy society wife discovers her husband's long-hidden secret--he has a brother, who is not only his twin but his "evil" twin. The long-lost broth...

Life in Hollywood No. 7
1927
as Herself
Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

Tin Gods
1926
as Janet Stone
In a mountain village in South America, Dr. McCoy and the padre watch Roger Drake enter a small chapel near a towering bridge, and McCoy recounts the ...

The Great Deception
1926
as Lois
Cyril Mansfield, a handsome young Englishman, is associated with the German Secret Service as a spy in England but is loyal to British intelligence, o...

Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
1926
as Estelle
A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. Appearances are made by many socialites of 1920s Pa...

The Mystic
1925
as Zara
Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man crashes — and proceeds to swindle — American high soc...

A Thief in Paradise
1925
as Rosa Carmino
Years of failure and bad luck have made Maurice Blake a beachcomber on an island in the Samoas, earning a precarious living by diving for pearls with ...

1925 Studio Tour
1925
as Self
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.

A Kiss in the Dark
1925
as Janet Livingstone
Based on a Frederick Lonsdale Broadway play.
One Year to Live
1925
as Elsie Duchanier
Young Elsie Duchanier, maid of the star dancer in the French Brunel's Follies, is deceived by a lascivious doctor into believing she has only one year...

The Wife of the Centaur
1924
as Inez Martin
Jeffrey Dwyer is a writer and a poet who wrestles with the conflicts between his idealism and his passion. The two sides of his nature are personified...

His Hour
1924
as Tamara Loraine
Gritzko, a prince of pre-World War I Russia, is the ultimate ladies' man. Women fall at his feet -- all except for a young but cold British widow, Tam...

True As Steel
1924
as Mrs. Eva Boutelle
Successful middle-aged manufacturer Frank Parry takes a business trip to New York, where he becomes infatuated with Eva Boutelle, manager of the Swans...

Three Weeks
1924
as The Queen
A young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks.

Name the Man
1924
as Isabelle
Victor Stowell, son of the deemster of the Isle of Man, is engaged to Fenella Stanley. He becomes involved in an intrigue with local girl Bessie Colli...

Don't Marry for Money
1923
as Edith Martin
Don't Marry for Money is a 1923 silent drama

Souls for Sale
1923
as Lady Jane
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

The Tiger's Claw
1923
as Chameli Brentwood
Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from a tiger's attack, but is...

The Christian
1923
as Lady Robert Ure
Glory Quayle and John Storm, sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London, Glory to become a nurse and John to enter a monastery. Inst...

The Strangers' Banquet
1922
as Mrs. Schuyler-Peabody
In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John Treve...

My American Wife
1922
as Hortensia deVereta
Manuel La Tessa, son of a wealthy South American family, meets Natalie Chester, a young Kentucky woman whose horse has won a race at a South American ...

Stolen Moments
1920
as Inez Salles
Vera Blaine, a young woman in the deep South, is passionate and romantic. So, she's easy prey for José Dalmarez.

Earthbound
1920
When Jim Rittenshaw learns that his friend Richard Desborough is having an affair with Jim's wife Daisy, Jim kills Richard. The murdered man's ghost t...

The Cost
1920
as Olivia
Against her father's wishes, Pauline Gardner marries John Dumont, a young philanderer, on his promise that he will reform.