Cecil Cunningham
Birthday: 1888-08-02
Place of Birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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.
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Above Suspicion
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe....
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Blonde Venus
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retire...
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The Awful Truth
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start underm...
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Those We Love
Director Robert Florey's 1932 melodrama about a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity stars M...
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Return of the Terror
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been co...
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It's a Wonderful World
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can ...
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The Hidden Hand
Eccentric wealthy old woman Lorinda Channing uses her insane brother, John Channing, to help her fri...
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Blossoms in the Dust
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very y...
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Come and Get It
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years l...
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Daughter of Shanghai
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring....
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This Way Please
A famous singer and matinée idol helps a pretty young theater usher in her dreams of becoming a sing...
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Swing High, Swing Low
In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees...
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Kentucky Moonshine
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show....
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Back Street
In turn-of-the-century Cincinnati, vibrant shop girl Ray Smith falls in love with banker Walter Saxe...
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Wives Under Suspicion
A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life....
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You and Me
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in...
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Manhattan Love Song
After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy so...
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Blond Cheat
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan duri...
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From Hell to Heaven
The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby ...
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Just a Pain in the Parlor
Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to...
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The Affairs of Martha
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids i...
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Kitty Foyle
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's ...
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The Age for Love
A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and...
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Playboy of Paris
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a wait...
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Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her ...
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The Life of Vergie Winters
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman a...
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Their Own Desire
Lally is a rich girl whose father writes books and plays polo. After 23 years of marriage her father...
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The Family Next Door
Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becom...
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Girls' School
At an exclusive boarding school for adolescent girls, the lives of two very different students inter...
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Safe in Hell
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the wo...
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Repent at Leisure
Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, ex...
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We Live Again
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, i...
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Lady of the Tropics
American playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal...
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Night Club Scandal
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But F...
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Artists & Models
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign....
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My Reputation
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems...
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lin...
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and ...
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Hurry, Charlie, Hurry
In this comedy, the marital conflicts between a meek banker and his nagging wife are chronicled....
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Cairo
Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Alli...
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In Old Oklahoma
Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklah...
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The Captain Is a Lady
Because of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody find...
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King of Gamblers
Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for...
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Lillian Russell
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star....
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Winter Carnival
A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's W...
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The Druggist's Dilemma
Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough star as a couple of wacky soda jerks. They do a high wire act while ...
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Anybody's Woman
A lawyer, left by his wife, gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after....
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Laugh It Off
Four former actresses decide to restart their careers by opening up a nightclub....
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Cowboy Serenade
Gene Autry heads a cattlemen's association and calls on the inexperienced Jim Agnew to negotiate the...
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Love Is a Racket
A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who's beholden to a penthouse gangster....
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland a...
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Ladies They Talk About
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot....
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Mata Hari
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying fo...
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The Feminine Touch
A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Do...
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The Rich Are Always with Us
A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has...
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Twin Beds
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany fr...
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Complicated Women
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, u...
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Scandal Street
Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jun...
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Love Me Tonight
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess livi...
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If I Had a Million
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight st...
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My Heart Belongs to Daddy
A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pr...
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Du Barry Was a Lady
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a p...
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The Wet Parade
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich ...
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Is My Face Red?
William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyo...
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People Will Talk
Henry and Clarice Wilkins have been married twenty-three years and are a model suburban couple who h...
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Play Girl
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her ...
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Marie Antoinette
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, ...
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The Candid Camera
Mrs. Townes has been refused a new car by her husband for 3 years while he's driving in cabs all ove...
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Paramount on Parade
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, cre...
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