Alice Hollister
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Forgotten Law (1922)
as Rosalie
Don Caesar de Bazan (1915)
as Maritana
Loaded Dice (1918)
Actor
From the Manger to the Cross (1912)
as Mary Magdalene
A Voice in the Dark (1921)
as Amelia Ellingham
The Vampire (1913)
as Sybil
The Fiddler’s Requiem (1911)
as Bridesmaid
A Sister's Burden (1915)
as Martha Hensley - the Elder Daughter
The Hate That Withers (1914)
as Iola Neville - a Flirt
The Siren's Reign (1915)
as Grace - a Soubrette
The Brand (1914)
as Rose Hayden - a Girl of the Slums
Her Husband's Friend (1914)
as Alice Lund - the Wife
Dust of the Desert (1912)
Actor
The Dancers (1925)
as Mrs. Mayne
The Colleen Bawn (1911)
as Anne Chute
The Scorpion's Sting (1915)
as Lyda Marston - the Daughter
The Terror of Conscience (1913)
as Carmela - the Street Singer
The Vampire's Trail (1914)
as Rita Caselli - a Cabaret Singer
The Scimitar of the Prophet (1913)
as Doris Harris - his wife
The Show Girl's Glove (1914)
as Stella Desmond - the Show Girl
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet (1914)
as Jessica Spear - an Adventuress
Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler (1914)
as Mary Redding - Kit's Wife
The Hobo and the Myth (1913)
Actor
The Great Lover (1920)
as Bianca
The Man of Iron (1914)
as Margery Stanley - the Daughter
The Wheel of Death (1913)
as Mary Brown - the Wife
The Maker of Dreams (1915)
as Lorna Greene - the Daughter
A Midnight Tragedy (1914)
as Marjory Priestman - the Wife
The Prosecuting Attorney (1913)
as The Attorney's Wife
The Menace of Fate (1914)
as Ethel WIlton - the Daughter, age 19
The Net of Deceit (1915)
as Gabrielle - an Adventuress
The Lotus Woman (1916)
as Juana
Far from Erin's Isle (1912)
Actor
By a Woman's Wit (1911)
as Pamela
The Poacher's Pardon (1912)
as Dora - the Gamekeeper's Daughter
A Wise Fool (1921)
as Carmen Dolores
The Padrone's Plot (1913)
as Tony's Wife
A Victim of Heredity (1913)
as Jane - the Thief's Daughter
The Blind Basket Weaver (1913)
as Anna - Paul's Crippled Sweetheart
A Son of Strife (1918)
as Xenia Vaskova
The Storm at Sea (1914)
as Jane
The Knife (1918)
as Stella Hill
The Message of the Palms (1913)
as Lovie Carlton - the Colonel's Daughter
The Fishermaid of Ballydavid (1911)
as Policeman's Wife
Seed and the Harvest (1914)
as Ida McIntyre - Lawyer
A Prisoner of the Harem (1912)
as Zorah
Man's Greed for Gold (1913)
as Mrs. Carter
A Virginia Feud (1913)
as Rose McDonald
An Arabian Tragedy (1912)
as Hanifi (Slave Girl) Ayub's 2nd Wife
Her Bitter Lesson (1914)
as Mrs. Evelyn Dane
The Peril of the Dance Hall (1913)
as Pepita Florenti
The Hand of Fate (1914)
as Florence - a Stenographer
Through the Flames (1914)
as Marion Hall - Donald's Wife
The Treasure Ship (1914)
as Beth Bascom - the Daughter
Tragedy of the Desert (1912)
as Zenab, The Arab Girl
The Devil's Dansant (1914)
as Valerie Farrar - the Wife
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec (1914)
as Katherine Lowther
A Celebrated Case (1914)
Actor
Married Flirts (1924)
as Mrs. Callender
The Wartime Siren (1913)
as Rosalie Ashby
The Stolen Ruby (1915)
as Marcia Judson - an Adventuress
The Lost Diamond (1913)
as Nancy - the Accomplice
The Little Gluers (1912)
as Nora Drew
The Man in Hiding (1915)
as Ruth - Tom's Sweetheart
Milestones (1920)
as Gertrude Rhead
The Crooked Path (1915)
as Mary - an Orphan
The Barefoot Boy (1914)
as Eleanor Hastings - the Mother
A Mississippi Tragedy (1913)
Actor
Frayed Fagin's Adventures (1913)
Actor
The Fatal Legacy (1913)
as Maud Halleck - Jack's Wife
The Haunting Fear (1915)
as Katherine
The Sign of the Broken Shackles (1915)
as Irene Cross - a Tenant
Shenandoah (1913)
as Mrs. Constance Haverhill
Primitive Man (1913)
as Betty - a Girl of the Mountains
The Money Gulf (1915)
as Ruth Mason
A Sawmill Hazard (1913)
as Alice Hollister
The False Guardian (1914)
as Helen Graham - an Orphan
The Cabaret Dancer (1914)
as Martha - Don's Sweetheart
Vagabonds (1912)
as Jane
A Stolen Identity (1913)
as Mildred Anderson
The Destroyer (1915)
as Cherie - a Dancer
Honor Thy Father (1915)
as Alma Fenway - Chick's Wife
Her Better Self (1917)
as Aggie May
The Hidden Witness (1913)
as Bernice Hamilton - the Governess
The Bribe (1913)
as Dora Malcolm
Ireland, the Oppressed (1912)
as Peggy
The Shadow (1914)
as Jane Dean - the Daughter
The Shaughraun (1912)
as Moyra
The Alien (1913)
as Josina - Paola's Wife
Driving Home the Cows (1912)
Actor
Into the Depths (1914)
Actor
A Desperate Chance (1913)
as Ruth - the Telegraph Operator