Alice Hollister
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 28, 1886
- Died
- February 24, 1973 (aged 86)
- Birthplace
- Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia Alice Hollister (September 28, 1886 – February 24, 1973) was an American silent film actress who appeared in 85 films between 1911 and 1925. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, she is believed to have been the daughter of French-Canadian immigrants. In 1903, at age seventeen, she married George K. Hollister who a few years later became a pioneer cinematographer with Kalem Studios in New York City. They had a daughter, Doris Ethel, born in 1906, and George Jr., born in 1908. When Kalem Studios began sending a film crew to Florida in the wintertime, Alice Hollister accompanied her husband. She began appearing in film in 1911, at first because of the small crew and the frequent need for a female in a bit part. However, she liked acting and went on to appear in many films, the last in 1925. One of Hollister's most important roles was that of Mary Magdalene in the film From the Manger to the Cross (1912). Filmed on location in Palestine, this film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The Vampire (1913) made her the first recognized vamp in cinema, predating Theda Bara in A Fool There Was (1915). For that role, she was dubbed "the original vampire". She reprised the character in The Vampire's Trail (1914) and The Lotus Woman (1916), her last film for Kalem. Alice Hollister's husband died in 1952 and she died in 1973, aged 86, in Costa Mesa, California. They are interred together in the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Solace at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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Filmography
The Dancers
Movie · as Mrs. Mayne
Married Flirts
Movie · as Mrs. Callender
The Forgotten Law
Movie · as Rosalie
A Voice in the Dark
Movie · as Amelia Ellingham
A Wise Fool
Movie · as Carmen Dolores
The Great Lover
Movie · as Bianca
Milestones
Movie · as Gertrude Rhead
Loaded Dice
Movie
The Knife
Movie · as Stella Hill
A Son of Strife
Movie · as Xenia Vaskova
Her Better Self
Movie · as Aggie May
The Lotus Woman
Movie · as Juana
The Man in Hiding
Movie · as Ruth - Tom's Sweetheart
The Net of Deceit
Movie · as Gabrielle - an Adventuress
The Sign of the Broken Shackles
Movie · as Irene Cross - a Tenant
The Money Gulf
Movie · as Ruth Mason
The Scorpion's Sting
Movie · as Lyda Marston - the Daughter
The Stolen Ruby
Movie · as Marcia Judson - an Adventuress
The Siren's Reign
Movie · as Grace - a Soubrette
The Destroyer
Movie · as Cherie - a Dancer
A Sister's Burden
Movie · as Martha Hensley - the Elder Daughter
The Haunting Fear
Movie · as Katherine
Honor Thy Father
Movie · as Alma Fenway - Chick's Wife
The Crooked Path
Movie · as Mary - an Orphan
Don Caesar de Bazan
Movie · as Maritana
The Maker of Dreams
Movie · as Lorna Greene - the Daughter
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
Movie · as Katherine Lowther
Her Husband's Friend
Movie · as Alice Lund - the Wife
The Shadow
Movie · as Jane Dean - the Daughter
The Cabaret Dancer
Movie · as Martha - Don's Sweetheart
The Treasure Ship
Movie · as Beth Bascom - the Daughter
A Celebrated Case
Movie
The Show Girl's Glove
Movie · as Stella Desmond - the Show Girl
Through the Flames
Movie · as Marion Hall - Donald's Wife
The Storm at Sea
Movie · as Jane
The Brand
Movie · as Rose Hayden - a Girl of the Slums
Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler
Movie · as Mary Redding - Kit's Wife
The Hand of Fate
Movie · as Florence - a Stenographer
The Devil's Dansant
Movie · as Valerie Farrar - the Wife
The Vampire's Trail
Movie · as Rita Caselli - a Cabaret Singer
Into the Depths
Movie
The Barefoot Boy
Movie · as Eleanor Hastings - the Mother
Seed and the Harvest
Movie · as Ida McIntyre - Lawyer
The False Guardian
Movie · as Helen Graham - an Orphan
The Menace of Fate
Movie · as Ethel WIlton - the Daughter, age 19
A Midnight Tragedy
Movie · as Marjory Priestman - the Wife
The Man of Iron
Movie · as Margery Stanley - the Daughter
Her Bitter Lesson
Movie · as Mrs. Evelyn Dane
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
Movie · as Jessica Spear - an Adventuress
The Hate That Withers
Movie · as Iola Neville - a Flirt
A Victim of Heredity
Movie · as Jane - the Thief's Daughter
The Terror of Conscience
Movie · as Carmela - the Street Singer
The Wheel of Death
Movie · as Mary Brown - the Wife
Shenandoah
Movie · as Mrs. Constance Haverhill
The Hidden Witness
Movie · as Bernice Hamilton - the Governess
A Stolen Identity
Movie · as Mildred Anderson
The Lost Diamond
Movie · as Nancy - the Accomplice
A Virginia Feud
Movie · as Rose McDonald
The Blind Basket Weaver
Movie · as Anna - Paul's Crippled Sweetheart
The Bribe
Movie · as Dora Malcolm
The Fatal Legacy
Movie · as Maud Halleck - Jack's Wife
The Hobo and the Myth
Movie
Primitive Man
Movie · as Betty - a Girl of the Mountains
The Padrone's Plot
Movie · as Tony's Wife
Frayed Fagin's Adventures
Movie
A Sawmill Hazard
Movie · as Alice Hollister
A Desperate Chance
Movie · as Ruth - the Telegraph Operator
The Prosecuting Attorney
Movie · as The Attorney's Wife
The Peril of the Dance Hall
Movie · as Pepita Florenti
The Message of the Palms
Movie · as Lovie Carlton - the Colonel's Daughter
The Wartime Siren
Movie · as Rosalie Ashby
A Mississippi Tragedy
Movie
The Scimitar of the Prophet
Movie · as Doris Harris - his wife
The Alien
Movie · as Josina - Paola's Wife
Man's Greed for Gold
Movie · as Mrs. Carter
The Vampire
Movie · as Sybil
Driving Home the Cows
Movie
Dust of the Desert
Movie
An Arabian Tragedy
Movie · as Hanifi (Slave Girl) Ayub's 2nd Wife
A Prisoner of the Harem
Movie · as Zorah
The Poacher's Pardon
Movie · as Dora - the Gamekeeper's Daughter
The Little Gluers
Movie · as Nora Drew
Ireland, the Oppressed
Movie · as Peggy
The Shaughraun
Movie · as Moyra
From the Manger to the Cross
Movie · as Mary Magdalene
Tragedy of the Desert
Movie · as Zenab, The Arab Girl
Far from Erin's Isle
Movie
Vagabonds
Movie · as Jane
By a Woman's Wit
Movie · as Pamela
The Colleen Bawn
Movie · as Anne Chute
The Fiddler’s Requiem
Movie · as Bridesmaid
The Fishermaid of Ballydavid
Movie · as Policeman's Wife