Cecil Cunningham
Cecil Cunningham ( born August 2, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, † April 17, 1959 in Los Angeles, California, United States) was an American theater and film actress.
Life
Cecil Cunningham stepped 1913-1919 several times on Broadway. She was mostly seen in musical comedies such as William Gilbert Schwenck Iolanthe or Victor Léon The prince of the mountains with the music of Franz Lehár. From 1929 to 1957 she played in more than 80 films. She was doing mostly occupied in supporting roles as a know-it- old lady, such as next to Greer Garson in Mervyn LeRoy's orphan drama Blossoms in the Dust ( Blossoms in the Dust, 1941). Your perhaps most famous role is that of Aunt Patsy in Leo McCareys comedy The Awful Truth ( The Awful Truth, 1937) on the side of Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. Furthermore, Cunningham came in the 1950s in the U.S. television used.
In 1915 she married the author Jean C. Havez. Two years later, the couple divorced again. Cunningham died in 1959 at the age of 70 years in Los Angeles. Her grave is in the local Chapel Of The Pines Crematory.