Aileen Pringle

Little remembered silent film star Aileen Pringle as featured in THE TIGER’S CLAW (1923). Born Aileen Bisbee on July 23, 1895 into a prominent and wealthy San Francisco family, Pringle began her acting career shortly after her 1916 marriage to Charles McKenzie Pringle, the son of a wealthy titled British Jamaican landowner. One of Pringle's first high-profile roles was in the Rudolph Valentino film "Stolen Moments" (1920). Many of her early roles were only modestly successful, until she was selected by friend and romance novelist Elinor Glyn to star in the 1924 film adaptation of her novel "Three Weeks" with matinee idol Conrad Nagel. The role catapulted Pringle into leading-lady status and her career began to build momentum. Her acting career continued throughout the 1920s, however, she allegedly was disliked by many of her co-workers for her allegedly haughty and dismissive behavior. After her 1926 divorce from Charles Pringle, Pringle further focused on her acting career, including "Dream of Love" (1928) and "Wall Street" (1929). During the sound era, she continued to take small parts in major films and even uncredited roles. In 1944 Pringle married the author James M. Cain, but the union lasted only two years and ended in divorce. By the late 1940s, Pringle retired from the screen and lived a wealthy retirement in New York City, where she died in 1989 at the age of 94.

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