Mary Alden
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 18, 1883
- Died
- July 2, 1946 (aged 63)
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mary Maguire Alden (June 18, 1883 – July 2, 1946) was an American motion picture and stage actress. She was one of the first Broadway actresses to work in Hollywood. Born in New York City, Alden began her career on the Broadway stage. She spent five years on Broadway before moving to Hollywood where she worked for the Biograph Company and Pathé Exchange in the first portion of her career. Her most popular role in movies came in Birth of a Nation directed by D.W. Griffith in 1915. Alden played the role of a mulatto girl in love with a northern politician. The following year she was in Griffith's Intolerance with Mae Marsh, Miriam Cooper, and Vera Lewis. After making Less Than The Dust with Mary Pickford in 1917, she took a temporary leave from motion pictures, acting for a while on the stage. Critics acclaimed Alden's portrayal of the mother, Mrs. Anthon, in The Old Nest (1921) and her characterization of an old lady in The Man With Two Mothers (1922). The latter feature was produced by Sam Goldwyn. Alden was prolific as a motion picture actress throughout the 1920s and into the early 1930s. A sampling of movies in which she had roles are The Plastic Age (1925), The Joy Girl (1927), Ladies of the Mob (1928), and Port of Dreams (1929). The final films she received screen credit for are Hell's House, Rasputin and the Empress, and Strange Interlude, each from 1932. Alden died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California in 1946. This had been her residence for the last four years of her life. She was 63 years of age.
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Filmography
I Am Not a Racist
Movie · as The Housekeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
One More Spring
Movie
Strange Interlude
Movie · as Mary, Leeds' Maid
Hell's House
Movie · as Lucy Mason
Politics
Movie · as Mary Evans
The Bad Sister
Movie · as Minor Role (uncredited)
Girl Overboard
Movie
Fools for Luck
Movie · as Mrs. Hunter
The Cossacks
Movie · as Lukashka's mother
Ladies of the Mob
Movie · as Soft Annie
The Sawdust Paradise
Movie · as Mother
Someone to Love
Movie · as Harriet Newton
Twin Flappers
Movie
The Joy Girl
Movie · as Mrs. Courage
The Potters
Movie · as Ma Potter
The Earth Woman
Movie · as Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman)
April Fool
Movie · as Amelia Rosen
Brown of Harvard
Movie · as Mrs. Brown
Lovey Mary
Movie · as Mrs. Wiggs
Siege
Movie
Faint Perfume
Movie · as Ma Crumb
The Happy Warrior
Movie · as Aunt Maggie
The Plastic Age
Movie · as Mrs. Carver
The Unwritten Law
Movie · as Miss Grant
Under the Rouge
Movie · as Martha Maynard
Soiled
Movie · as Mrs. Brown
The Beloved Brute
Movie · as Augustina
Painted People
Movie · as Mrs. Bryne
Babbitt
Movie · as Mrs. Myra Babbitt
When a Girl Loves
Movie · as The Czarina
Pleasure Mad
Movie · as Marjorie Benton
The Bond Boy
Movie · as Mrs. Newboat
The Empty Cradle
Movie · as Alice Larkin
The Eagle's Feather
Movie · as Delia Jamieson
The Steadfast Heart
Movie · as Mrs. Burke
Has the World Gone Mad!
Movie · as Mrs. Bell
The Hidden Woman
Movie · as Mrs. Randolph
A Woman's Woman
Movie · as Densie Plummer
Notoriety
Movie · as Ann Boland
Man With Two Mothers
Movie
Snowblind
Movie · as Bella
The Old Nest
Movie · as Mrs. Anthon
The Witching Hour
Movie · as Helen Whipple
Miss Nobody
Movie · as Jason's Wife
Honest Hutch
Movie · as Mrs. Hutchins
Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
Movie · as Edith Beecher Kendall
Milestones
Movie · as Rose Sibley
Parted Curtains
Movie · as Mrs. Masters
The Inferior Sex
Movie · as Clarissa Mott-Smith
Erstwhile Susan
Movie · as Erstwhile Susan
The Unpardonable Sin
Movie · as Mrs. Parcot
The Broken Butterfly
Movie · as Zabie Elliot
The Naulahka
Movie · as Prince's Mother
The Narrow Path
Movie · as Margaret Dunn
The Land of Promise
Movie · as Gertie Marsh
The Argyle Case
Movie · as Nellie Marsh
Macbeth
Movie · as Lady Macduff
The Good Bad-Man
Movie · as Jane Stuart
An Innocent Magdalene
Movie · as The Woman
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Movie · as Uplifter
Less Than the Dust
Movie · as Mrs. Bradshaw
Pillars of Society
Movie · as Lona Tonnesen
The Narrow Path
Movie · as Shirley Martin
Hell-to-Pay Austin
Movie · as Doris Valentine
Acquitted
Movie · as Mrs. Carter
The Birth of a Nation
Movie · as Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Man's Prerogative
Movie · as Elizabeth Towne
Her Mother's Daughter
Movie · as Marie's Mother
Ghosts
Movie · as Helen Alving
The Lily and the Rose
Movie · as Mrs. Fairfax
The Lucky Transfer
Movie · as Helen Holland
The Quicksands
Movie
Lord Chumley
Movie · as Jessie - Butterworth's Sweetheart
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
Movie · as Katherine Roebuck
Another Chance
Movie · as Mrs. Mason
Cigar Butts
Movie
Home, Sweet Home
Movie · as The Mother
The Battle of the Sexes
Movie · as Mrs. Frank Andrews
The Little Country Mouse
Movie · as Dorothy's Cousin
A Brass Button
Movie · as Mrs. Lowden