Aileen Pringle

She recalled in a 1980 telephone conversation: "The film was in good taste; some people thought the book was trashy". Anita Loos wrote in "A Girl Like I", the first volume of her autobiography, vaudeville comic Joe Frisco telling Glynn: "Leave me get this straight. You want to find some tramp that don't look like a tramp, to play that English tramp in your picture. But take it from me, that kind of tramp don't hang out in Hollywood". Aileen had spent her 20s married to Charles McKenzie Pringle, the son of Sir John Pringle, a Jamaica landowner and a member of the Privy and Legislative Councils of Jamaica. Aileen lived in Jamaica until she went on stage with George Arliss.

I opened my 1980 telephone conversation with Aileen by mentioning that the day before I had been reading her correspondence with Mencken at the New York Public Library. "But all the letters were destroyed", she said. I knew that Mencken had asked for all of his letters to her back at the time he became engaged to Sara Haardt. Aileen was the only woman who received such a request from Mencken at that time. "It was your letters from the late '30s and '40s I was reading", I told Aileen. "In one of them Mencken was urging you to write a book. Did you ever finish it?" "No. I got married instead.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6723 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.

She claimed that Louis B. Mayer spitefully burned the prints of her films in 1952 because television had no interest in silent films.

She did not remarry until 1944 when she became the bride of James M. Cain, author of "The Postman Always Rings Twice".

The house she shared with Howard Dietz was looted, with the equivalent of $20,000 in property stolen, in late July of 1935.

Announced in 1933 that she was "through with love" and planned not to remarry after her divorce from Charles McKenzie Pringle (who became Lt. Governor of Jamaica) finalized. She eventually did marry and divorce James M. Cain.

Romantically involved with H.L. Mencken before his 1930 marriage to Sara Powell Haardt.

Louella Parsons reported that Pringle had lightened her hair color due to a growing preference for blond leading ladies (November 15, 1929). One of Pringle's trademarks during the zenith of her career was her dark hair.

When she began divorce proceedings against Pringle in 1926, Hollywood gossip columnists speculated she would marry H. L. Mencken.

She was offered Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) but rejected it because she "did not want to be subjected to all that heat and dust".

Aileen Pringle's favorite film was a mid-1920s silent based on a book by Elinor Glyn: Three Weeks (1924), sort of a "Lady Chatterly's Lover".