Cecilia Parker (
April 26,
1914 –
July 25,
1993) was a film actress.
She was brought to southern
California as a child by her mother, Mrs. Naudy Anna Parker. Her father was an
English soldier. Parker graduated from the Convent of the Immaculate Heart in
Hollywood in June 1931. At the time she resided with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Parker, at 546 North Fuller Street in
Los Angeles, California. Parker was selected from among a group of extras to attend the
Fox Film studio training school for younger players.
Soon she was selected to play opposite
George O'Brien in
The Rainbow Trail (1932).
The Rainbow Trail, written by
Zane Grey, was the novelist's
sequel to
Riders of the Purple Sage. Parker starred with
Tom Tyler and
Carmelita Geraghty in a 1932-1933 produced by
Universal Pictures. It is entitled
The Jungle Mystery. In July 1933 she was chosen to play the
heroine in the
Ken Maynard western,
The Trail Drive (1933). That same year, she was
John Wayne's leading lady in the first
singing cowboy movie,
Riders of Destiny.