Aileen Pringle House, R. Highet & J.R. Teague, Architect 1926
Architects R. Highet & J.R. Teague designed the Spanish Colonial Revival style house for stage and silent film actress Aileen Pringle in 1926. Pringle was born into a prominent and wealthy San Francisco family as Aileen Brisbee on July 23, 1895. Educated in Europe, she began her acting career shortly after her 1916 marriage to Charles McKenzie Pringle, the son of a wealthy titled British Jamaican landowner and a member of the Privy and Legislative Councils of Jamaica.
One of her early high-profile roles was in the Rudolph Valentino film Stolen Moments (1920). She starred in Three Weeks (1924) opposite matinee idol Conrad Nagel; the role catapulted her into leading-lady status. Disliked by many of her peers for her haughty and dismissive manner, she was prone to sometimes make witty yet caustic comments on fellow actors. During a romantic scene in Three Weeks, in which actor Conrad Nagel carried her in his arms to the bedroom, lip readers saw her say: "If you drop me, you bastard, I'll break your neck".
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. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6723 Hollywood Boulevard.
Located at 722 Adelaide Place in Santa Monica, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.
Aileen Pringle House, R. Highet & J.R. Teague, Architect 1926
Architects R. Highet & J.R. Teague designed the Spanish Colonial Revival style house for stage and silent film actress Aileen Pringle in 1926. Pringle was born into a prominent and wealthy San Francisco family as Aileen Brisbee on July 23, 1895. Educated in Europe, she began her acting career shortly after her 1916 marriage to Charles McKenzie Pringle, the son of a wealthy titled British Jamaican landowner and a member of the Privy and Legislative Councils of Jamaica.
One of her early high-profile roles was in the Rudolph Valentino film Stolen Moments (1920). She starred in Three Weeks (1924) opposite matinee idol Conrad Nagel; the role catapulted her into leading-lady status. Disliked by many of her peers for her haughty and dismissive manner, she was prone to sometimes make witty yet caustic comments on fellow actors. During a romantic scene in Three Weeks, in which actor Conrad Nagel carried her in his arms to the bedroom, lip readers saw her say: "If you drop me, you bastard, I'll break your neck".
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. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6723 Hollywood Boulevard.
Located at 722 Adelaide Place in Santa Monica, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.