Curiosidades

Greta Garbo was her tennis partner.

Was a member of the Algonquin Round Table.

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

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.

She was offered Ben Hur (1925) but rejected it because she "did not want to be subjected to all that heat and dust".

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.

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

Interviewed in "Talking to the Piano Player: Silent Film Stars, Writers and Directors Remember" by Stuart Oderman (BearManor Media).

Ralph Barton, American artist used her as the model for Dorothy in his illustrations for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos. Another admirer was George Gershwin who met her in Hollywood and wrote much of the Second Rhapsody at her Santa Monica, California, home.

Pringle was a lifelong pen pal and confidant of syndicated Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper, with whom she shared many a gossip item too spicy to be included in Hopper's published articles.

Father was English and her mother French.

Her first husband was the heir of Sir John Pringle, one of Jamaica's largest landowners.

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