Cecile Arnold

born: 09 July 1893 Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

died: 18 June 1931 Hong Kong, China (acute Infective Myocarditis, age 40)

American silent screen supporting actress. Her biological father, Anthony Arnoux (1865-1932), was born in NYC and became a newspaper reporter as was her brother, Given Campbell Arnoux (1895-1966) who followed in his father's footsteps. Her mother, Susan Campbell (1872-1930) was born in Paducah, Kentucky and after divorcing Arnoux, she married Albert D. Evans in St.Louis, MO, 31 May 1902. After having 3 more children there, they moved to Texas. Cecile married her first husband,Sennett employee, Chauncy F. Reynolds (1890-1935) about 1917 and divorced in 1919 and accompanied her newspaper reporter brother to China. In China, she married China-born, David Toeg (1881-1957), a stock broker scion of a wealthy Syrian family residing in England. They were divorced before 18 June 1931 as per her Death Certificate. On 26 July 1931, he married (in Shanghai) a 30 year old Russian-born woman with a 10 year old son as noted in his application for US citizenship in 1949. Family researcher, LoriStricker at Ancestry.com, (without sources) says that her son, David Toeg, was fathered by Nicolai Merkuloff a Russian-born merchant who worked in China and was 12 years her junior. In his book, "Mack Sennett's Fun Factory", Brent Walker says that she left China for San Francisco in 1922 (sic) so her child would be born on American soil. She departed China (alone) on June 14, 1924 and her son was born exactly 9 months and one day later on March 15, 1925 which may lend some credibility to LoriStricker's story. Curiously, her 1919 passport application says her husband, "James (sic) was deceased" (named Frank, died 1935). Her 1921 passport says she is divorced from Frank. Her 1924 passport application says her father is "deceased" but he died in 1932. At least one source claims she was born in April 1891. One source at Ancestry.com gives a birthplace of New York City. She is buried in Happy Valley Roman Catholic Cemetery, S5 #5567, Hong Kong, China.

Real name: Cecile Laval Arnoux Height: 5'5½"

Films listed on this page: all films with Charley Chase.

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▼ NON-HAL ROACH FILMS 1914 The Masquerader Actress 1914 His New Profession Girl with eggs 1914 The Rounders Hotel guest in lobby 1914 He Loved The Ladies [?] 1914 Those Love Pangs Blonde girl 1914 Stout Hearts But Weak Knees [?] 1914 Dough And Dynamite Waitress 1914 Gentlemen Of Nerve Spectator 1914 Cursed By His Beauty Young art student 1914 His Musical Career Mrs. Rich 1914 Leading Lizzie Astray Dancing cafe potron 1914 Ambrose's First Falsehood Ambrose's buddy's girlfriend

Acknowledgements: Jim Jarvis (research and information) Brent Walker (information) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ6B-RX6 (1880 Census father Anthony Arnoux age 14 in NYC) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6FG-526 (1880 Census mother Susan Campbell age 8 in St.Louis, MO.) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WS7-SH9 (1895 birth NYC brother Given Campbell Arnoux) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2QH-4RJ (1910 Census indicates Cecile's 1893 birth MO.) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-91SL-SH8?i=1725&cc=1968530 (1917 Draft Card Chauncy F. Reynolds) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV5B-NS5S 1919 Oct.8 passport "widow of James (sic)" 1893 birth MO. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV5Y-YX3K 1921 Jun.29 passpt "divorced of Frank" 1893 birth MO. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1174/32296_1220705228_0007-00284?pid=2180244&backurl=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26db%3DUSpassports%26gss%3Dangs-d%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26gsfn%3Dcecile%26gsfn_x%3D0%26gsln%3Dreynolds%26gsln_x%3D0%26msbdm%3D7%26msbdm_x%3D1%26msbdy%3D1895%26msbdy_x%3D1%26msbdp%3D5%26MSAV%3D1%26uidh%3D1c2%26pcat%3D40%26fh%3D2%26h%3D2180244%26recoff%3D%26ml_rpos%3D3%26hovR%3D1&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true#?imageId=32296_1220705228_0007-00284 (1921 Jul.12 emergency passpt 1893 birth MO.) https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1174/32296_620305173_0016-00076/2186664?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dUSpassports%26gss%3dsfs28_ms_r_db%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26gsfn%3dcecile%26gsfn_x%3d0%26gsln%3dreynolds%26gsln_x%3d0%26msbdm%3d7%26msbdm_x%3d1%26msbdy%3d1895%26msbdy_x%3d1%26msbdp%3d5%26MSAV%3d1%26uidh%3d1c2&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults#?imageId=32296_620305173_0016-00076 (1924 Jun.10 emergency passpt Father "deceased (sic)" 1898 birth MO.) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KDZ7-QRT (1924 Jun 14 depart China (alone) passenger 1898 birth MO.) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGH6-Z1Z (1925 Mar.15 birth (SFO) of son Robert Raphael Toeg) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KX4B-9P6 (1927 Aug passenger 1898 birth MO.) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KX4Y-8JK (1927 Feb passenger 1898 birth MO (with son) https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1616/31070_171158-00502/174660?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fgst%3d-6&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults#?imageId=31070_171158-00502 (1931 Death Certificate divorced from Toeg age 33 indicates 1897 birth https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2177241 (Happy Valley Cemetery Hong Kong China) Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad, 1835-1974 (Ancestry.com) This page was last updated on: 24 October 2017