cecil cunningham
cecil cunningham was born on august 2, 1888 in st. louis, missouri, usa as edna cecil cunningham. she was an actress, known for
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cecil cunningham (august 2, 1888 – april 17, 1959) was an american film and stage actress. she appeared in more than 80 movies between 1929 and 1946 .
even in her briefest appearances, cecil cunningham managed to draw attention to herself, usually through such simple expedients as a firmly planted tongue in cheek and a withering, all - knowing glare .
cecil cunningham was born on august 2, 1888 in st. louis, missouri, usa as edna cecil cunningham. she was an actress, known for the awful truth (1937), playboy of paris (1930) and cowboy serenade (1942). she was married to jean c. havez. she died on april 17, 1959 in los angeles, california, usa .
sioux city - - cecil f. cunningham, 49, of wichita, kan. , formerly of sioux city, died friday, july 9, 2010, at his residence following a brief illness with cancer .
mr. cunningham, age 89 years, passed away saturday, april 11, 2009 at bay regional medical center. cecil was born january 15, 1920 in omer, mi to the late charles and nina (valentine) cunningham. he married dorothy i. corry and she predeceased him on ...
he will be missed by his family and friends including his mother, gloria cunningham of sioux city; a brother, scott cunningham of sioux city; two sisters, sheryl cochnauer of joplin, mo. , and laura griffin and her husband, fred of sioux city; five nephews, aaron and steven cunningham, david griffin, lucas cunningham and joshua cochnauer; three nieces, holly, latasha and aislinn cunningham; and his good friends in wichita, allyn kouri, eric galiton and todd cooper .
statuesque, foghorn - voiced comedienne cecil cunningham at one time pursued an operatic career. after extensive training, cunningham made her stage debut in the chorus of a fritzi scheff musical. she played her first important role in the 1911 production will o’ the wisp, then enjoyed her greatest success as a serious singer in the 1913 operetta pink lady .
by the time she started making movies cecil cunningham was an extremely distinctive character actress in her early forties, often in small or un - credited parts. her white hair was usually cut in a mannish way, her eyes were blunt and disbelieving, and her voice was the ultimate in butch skepticism. was cunningham herself as lesbian as she seems in many of her movies? she married once to the actor jean havez from 1915 to 1917, and when they hit the divorce court cunningham testified that havez was lazy and that she was tired of supporting him. havez told the court that cunningham had been merely a “marble bride. ”
cecil was born aug. 18, 1960, in holden, mo. , the son of dr. cecil and gloria (balsley) cunningham. he was baptized and confirmed at st. paul' s lutheran church and attended st. paul' s lutheran school. he graduated from east high school in 1979 and then attended morningside college for two years. he went to western iowa tech community college and received a degree in electronic communications .
cunningham herself seems to have been a rather tender - hearted lady according to mitchell leisen, who said that she had trouble being mean to sexy carole lombard in swing high, swing low (1936). “cecil had to be tough with carole and we just couldn’t get it out of her, ” leisen said (david chierichetti’s leisen book mistakenly calls cunningham “him” at this point instead of “her. ”) cunningham told leisen, “she’s so beautiful and pathetic, i just can’t be tough with her. ” so lombard suggested they shoot it over her shoulder and she would do different dialogue to get the nasty reaction from cunningham they needed, and this story suggests that perhaps the young femmes found cunningham a soft touch, or gently maternal. sometimes people in movies really are the opposite of what they seem .
following graduation, cecil went to work for kake - tv in wichita, where he worked for 25 years. he received several awards from kake for his dedication to his job. he never took off for sickness until his recent illness .
cunningham had her longest and best part as the sophisticated aunt patsy in the classic screwball comedy the awful truth (1937). “if i’d known we were going to be buried side by side i never would have taken this apartment with you! ” says the fun - seeking patsy to her niece lucy (irene dunne). “where can two women go alone? ” lucy innocently wonders, and surely cunningham knows the answer to that question, but she can’t even hint at it in 1937 .
cunningham was born in st. louis, missouri, in 1888. she trained to be an opera singer and made her debut on stage at age eighteen in the chorus of a musical called mademoiselle modiste. cunningham did many other musicals and became a headliner in vaudeville, often playing at the palace theatre in new york during her brief marriage to havez. info is scarce on how she spent the 1920s, but she kept working on stage and hopefully wore suits after hours and kept femme cuties in line .
alas, nervous tension robbed cunningham of her glorious singing voice, whereupon she cut her losses and went into comedy. for many years she was a headliner in vaudeville, performing first - rate material written for her by her then - husband jean havez .
cunningham still worked a lot after that peak, finishing her film career with stanwyck again in my reputation (1946). she died in 1959 at age 70 in los angeles, a time and place where it could not have been imagined that someone like jane lynch could make a career as an openly lesbian comedian and actress, and often in lead roles, too. in my mind, i imagine cunningham and franklin pangborn having some secret hollywood salon, laughing over their bit parts and enjoying themselves as much as possible .
cunningham worked for dorothy arzner in anybody’s woman (1930) and made her first impression on screen as the opera diva madame swempski, huffing in outrage at an insult barrage from groucho marx in monkey business (1931). even more colorfully, cunningham played the madam who calls hooker dorothy mackaill with a job in the first scene of safe in hell (1931), where she wears heavy make - up, curly hair, a sleazy robe, and carries a pekinese dog. (“listen, dearie, ” she says, “a friend of mine called up and he’s lonesome, see? ”) cunningham carried a pekinese again in the barbara stanwyck prison movie ladies they talk about (1933), so that her gender - bending in pre - code movies came to be attached to the criminal underworld, and even circus folk in susan lenox: her fall and rise (1931) .
in his youth, he loved to swim, build model cars and was involved in boy scouts. he loved visiting his grandmother in kansas city and going to worlds of fun. he enjoyed fishing and rebuilding antique cars with his father. he also helped his father on many construction projects. cecil taught himself to play the guitar and loved playing chess. he also liked animals and kids .
comedy fans hold a special place in their hearts for two of cunningham’s 1930s appearances: in if i had a million, she plays the haughty ex - trapeze artist who is put down in short order by w. c. fields; and in leo mccarey’s the awful truth, she enjoys one of her juiciest parts as irene dunne’s waspish aunt patsy .
cunningham can be seen as a brutally frank party hostess in paramount on parade (1930), as supercilious opera star madame swempski in the marx brothers’ monkey business (1932), as a outraged dowager whose beauty treatment has left her totally bald in kiss and make up (1934) and as jack benny’s dry - witted secretary in artists and models (1937) .
tall, droll, low - voiced, aunt patsy is the flip side of cunningham’s earlier pre - code criminals; in this movie her signaled lesbianism was made to stand in for manhattan glamour. patsy zeroes in on dan leeson (ralph bellamy), an oil millionaire, but nearly right away she can see her mistake when he laughs too long at one of her zingers. “mr. leeson, won’t you tell us something about…oklahoma? ” patsy asks, unable to keep a very derisive note out of her voice when she mentions his home state (she even has to slightly close her eyes when she says it! )
patsy tries to counsel lucy about rebound relationships: “there’s the first bounce and then the second bounce…well look at me, you wind up like an old tennis ball. ” patsy speaks up for lucy’s fun ex - husband jerry (cary grant) and tells her niece that if she wants security she should just buy an annuity. observing a farcical conclusion to a scene where jerry and the troublemaking armand (alexander d’arcy) run out of their apartment, patsy simply says, “they forgot to touch second, ” with tomboy aplomb. surely most of us could really benefit from having an aunt patsy in our lives, and cunningham gives her all the style and hard - edged wit she deserves .
. she died on april 17, 1959 in los angeles, california, usa .
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actress. she appeared in 84 films, including
mata hari ,
blonde venus ,
mr. deeds goes to town ,
come and get it ,
the awful truth ,
lillian russell ,
new moon ,
du barry was a lady ,
and
the horn blows at midnight .
she was married to writer jean c. havez .
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started her working life as a switchboard operator in a commerce bank. did some sittings as a photographer' s model, then first show business job in the chorus line of' mademoiselle modiste' at the age of eighteen. trained as a singer and appeared on stage in' iolanthe' (1913, new york) and' parsifal' (1915, paris). worked as a vaudeville comedienne at the palace in new york till commencement of her movie career in 1929 .
hollywood character actress with whitish hair cut like a man' s, often in roles as a general
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was in four oscar best picture nominees: mr. deeds goes to town (1936), the awful truth (1937), kitty foyle (1940) and blossoms in the dust (1941) .
“i want to go where there’s life, and i don’t mean plant life, ” says patsy, raising her arms to embrace the air. “i want to go to the theater, you know, and go places later and step around and do things, ” she says, a little furtively, as she daintily cuts a rug around the apartment. “unless there’s a new ruling, i don’t need an escort to get a drink, ” patsy says challengingly. she speaks about maybe hooking up with a bartender named joe, and cracks, “you’re speaking to a desperate woman. ”
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when vaudeville went into decline in 1930, she headed to hollywood. signed by paramount, she played roles of varying sizes, usually portraying a mannish society matron or show - business diva .
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cecil cunningham ( august 2 , 1888 – april 17 , 1959 ) was an american film and stage actress . she 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 in new york till commencement of her movie career in 1929 . cunningham was a hollywood character actress with whitish hair cut like a man 's , often in roles as a general " know-it-all " . she appeared in more than 80 movies between 1929 and 1946 . her remains are interred in chapel of the pines crematory . 
cecil cunningham (august 2, 1888 – april 17, 1959) was an american film and stage actress. she 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 in new york till commencement of her movie career in 1929. cunningham was a hollywood character actress with whitish hair cut like a man's, often in roles as a general " know-it-all ". she appeared in more than 80 movies between 1929 and 1946. her remains are interred in chapel of the pines crematory.
cecil cunningham (august 2, 1888 – april 17, 1959) was an american film and stage actress. she 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 in new york till commencement of her movie career in 1929. cunningham was a hollywood character actress with whitish hair cut like a man's, often in roles as a general " know-it-all ". she appeared in more than 80 movies between 1929 and 1946. her remains are interred in chapel of the pines crematory.