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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nora Cecil (September 20, 1878 – May 1, 1951) was a British-American character actress whose 30-year career spanned both the silent and sound film eras. Cecil's career began on the stage, where she appeared in a single Broadway production, The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast, which ran for more than 240 performances at the Broadway Theatre in 1901-02. (A 1930 newspaper article says that Cecil "made her debut, three decades ago, on the London stage.") Cecil appeared in well over 100 feature films and film shorts. In 1915, she moved from the stage into films, her first appearance being in a starring role in The Arrival of Perpetua, directed by Émile Chautard. She often played "thin-lipped, stern-visaged dowagers and forbidding mothers-in-law" and "welfare workers, landladies, schoolmistresses and maiden aunts". One of the most significant roles was in the W.C. Fields vehicle, The Old Fashioned Way in 1934. Some of the other notable films in which Cecil appeared include: Ernst Lubitsch's historical romance, The Merry Widow, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald; the 1939 version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, starring Mickey Rooney; the John Ford classic, Stagecoach, with John Wayne. Her final acting performance was in a featured role in Mourning Becomes Electra in 1947, starring Rosalind Russell.

The Big Parade of Comedy
as Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mourning Becomes Electra
as Louisa Ames

The Sea of Grass
as Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)

Big Town
as Miss Lovelace (uncredited)

The Missing Lady
as Miss Millie

Two Sisters from Boston
as Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)

Lady on a Train

The Thin Man Goes Home
as Miss Peavy

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

Hail the Conquering Hero
as Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)

The Unknown Guest
as Martha Williams

I Married a Witch
as Harriet Wooley (uncredited)

Apache Trail
as Passenger (uncredited)

The Wife Takes a Flyer
as Miss Updike

Obliging Young Lady
as Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)

Three Girls About Town
as Casket Customer

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
as Charwoman

The Bank Dick
as Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)

Little Men
as Head of Orphanage

Young People
as Righteous Old Lady

Lucky Partners
as Women's Club President (uncredited)

Those Were the Days!
as Mrs. Moffett

What a Life
as Miss Eggleston

Some Like It Hot
as Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)

Union Pacific
as Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as Miss Jenkins

Stagecoach
as Boone's Landlady (uncredited)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)

Mr. Boggs Steps Out
as Widow Peddie

International Settlement
as English Woman

Borrowing Trouble
as Dressmaker

Nothing Sacred
as Schoolteacher (uncredited)

Blossoms On Broadway
as Leader of Committee (uncredited)

Partners in Crime
as Housekeeper

She Asked for It
as Elderly lady (uncredited)

Easy Living
as Miss Swerf

Night of Mystery

Three Smart Boys
as Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent

Night Must Fall

Champagne Waltz
as Train Passenger

The Mighty Treve
as Old Maid at Dog Show

College Holiday
as Miss Elkins (uncredited)

Laughing at Trouble
as Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman

Under Your Spell
as School Teacher (uncredited)

The Big Broadcast of 1937
as Home Economics Woman

Let's Make a Million

Girl of the Ozarks
as Miss Trent

Little Miss Nobody
as Mrs. Robinson

Fury
as Albert's Mother (uncredited)

Dancing Pirate
as Landlady (uncredited)

Collegiate
as Miss Curtiss

Two in the Dark
as Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)

Way Down East
as Townswoman at Party

Slightly Static
as Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)

Vagabond Lady
as Miss Perkins (uncredited)

Gold Diggers of 1935
as Housekeeper (uncredited)

Car 99
as Granny Adams

Memories and Melodies
as Customer (uncredited)

Biography of a Bachelor Girl
as Ship's Matron (uncredited)

The Merry Widow
as Animal Woman (uncredited)