Seena Owen
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 13, 1894
- Died
- August 15, 1966 (aged 71)
- Birthplace
- Spokane, Washington, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia Seena Owen (November 14, 1894 – August 15, 1966) was a Danish-American silent film actress. Born Signe Auen at Spokane, Washington, the youngest of three children raised by Jens Christensen and Karen (née Sorensen) Auen. Her father and mother came from Denmark in the late 1880s and settled in Minnesota where they married in 1888. Within a short period of time they relocated to Portland and then Spokane, where her father became proprietor of the Columbia Pharmacy. Her first important film was A Yankee From the West (1915) under the name Signe Auen at the age of 21. She was later convinced to change her name and settled on Seena Owen, the phonetic spelling of her real name. In 1916 she performed in D. W. Griffith's Intolerance. The same year she married George Walsh whom she had met on the set of Intolerance. The marriage lasted until their divorce in 1924. A regular player for the rest of the silent era, Owen appeared in films such as Maurice Tourneur's Victory in 1919 where she was photographed to great effect by Tourneur's cameraman, Rene Guissart. In 1920, she appeared in "The Gift Supreme" with Lon Chaney, who appeared with her in Victory. She co-starred with Gloria Swanson and Walter Byron in the ill-fated Queen Kelly (1928), as the mad Queen who whips Swanson in one scene. With the arrival of sound in movies, Owen's weak voice became a problem and forced her to retire from the silver screen in 1933. After her retirement, she worked on a number of films in the 1930s/40s as a screenwriter including two starring Dorothy Lamour: Aloma of the South Seas and Rainbow Island, both in 1941. The former was written in part with her sister, Lillie Hayward, a successful Hollywood screenwriter, Seena Owen died on August 15, 1966 at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, aged 71, and was interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
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Filmography
Officer Thirteen
Movie · as Trixi Du Bray
Queen Kelly
Movie · as Queen Regina V
The Marriage Playground
Movie · as Rose Sellers
The Blue Danube
Movie · as Helena Boursch
Man-Made Women
Movie · as Georgette
Sinners in Love
Movie · as Yvonne D'Orsy
His Last Haul
Movie · as Blanche
The Rush Hour
Movie · as Yvonne Dorée
The Flame of the Yukon
Movie · as The Flame
Shipwrecked
Movie · as Lois Austin
The Hunted Woman
Movie · as Joanne Gray
Faint Perfume
Movie · as Richmiel Crumb
For Woman's Favor
Movie · as June Paige
I Am the Man
Movie · as Julia Calvert
The Great Well
Movie · as Camilla Challenor
Unseeing Eyes
Movie · as Miriam Helston
The Leavenworth Case
Movie · as Eleanor Leavenworth
The Go-Getter
Movie · as Mary Skinner
Back Pay
Movie · as Hester Bevins
The Face in the Fog
Movie · as Grand Duchess Tatiana
Sisters
Movie · as Alix Strickland
Lavender and Old Lace
Movie · as Ruth Thorne
The Cheater Reformed
Movie · as Carol McCall
The Woman God Changed
Movie · as Anna Janssen
Sooner or Later
Movie · as Edna Ellis
The Gift Supreme
Movie · as Sylvia Alden
The Price of Redemption
Movie · as Jean Dering
The Sheriff's Son
Movie · as Beulah Rutherford
One of the Finest
Movie · as Frances Hudson
Victory
Movie · as Alma
The Fall of Babylon
Movie · as Attarea
Riders of Vengeance
Movie · as The Girl
The Life Line
Movie · as Laura
A Man And His Money
Movie · as Betty Dalrymple
Breed of Men
Movie · as Ruth Fellows
The City of Comrades
Movie · as Regina Barry
A Fugitive from Matrimony
Movie · as Barbara Riggs
Branding Broadway
Movie · as Mary Lee
Madame Bo-Peep
Movie · as Octavia
A Woman's Awakening
Movie · as Paula Letchworth
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Movie · as Princess Beloved (Attarea) (Babylonian Story)
Martha's Vindication
Movie · as Dorothea
The Fox Woman
Movie · as The Fox Woman, Alice Carroway, a.k.a. Ali-San
The Craven
Movie · as May Walton
A Yankee from the West
Movie · as Gunhild, a Norwegian Girl
An Old-Fashioned Girl
Movie · as Bertha - the City Girl
The Lamb
Movie · as Mary
The Better Way
Movie
A Flight for a Fortune
Movie · as May