Mary Alden
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
as Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
as Uplifter
Man's Prerogative (1915)
as Elizabeth Towne
Silk Husbands and Calico Wives (1920)
as Edith Beecher Kendall
Less Than the Dust (1916)
as Mrs. Bradshaw
The Bad Sister (1931)
as Minor Role (uncredited)
Snowblind (1921)
as Bella
Soiled (1925)
as Mrs. Brown
The Good Bad-Man (1916)
as Jane Stuart
The Eagle's Feather (1923)
as Delia Jamieson
Ladies of the Mob (1928)
as Soft Annie
Babbitt (1924)
as Mrs. Myra Babbitt
Painted People (1924)
as Mrs. Bryne
Cigar Butts (1914)
Actor
The Second Mrs. Roebuck (1914)
as Katherine Roebuck
Home, Sweet Home (1914)
as The Mother
The Plastic Age (1925)
as Mrs. Carver
When a Girl Loves (1924)
as The Czarina
Has the World Gone Mad! (1923)
as Mrs. Bell
I Am Not a Racist (2019)
as The Housekeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pleasure Mad (1923)
as Marjorie Benton
The Battle of the Sexes (1914)
as Mrs. Frank Andrews
The Sawdust Paradise (1928)
as Mother
The Cossacks (1928)
as Lukashka's mother
Parted Curtains (1920)
as Mrs. Masters
The Land of Promise (1917)
as Gertie Marsh
Hell-to-Pay Austin (1916)
as Doris Valentine
The Lily and the Rose (1915)
as Mrs. Fairfax
A Woman's Woman (1922)
as Densie Plummer
Miss Nobody (1920)
as Jason's Wife
One More Spring (1935)
Actor
Man With Two Mothers (1922)
Actor
The Little Country Mouse (1914)
as Dorothy's Cousin
Twin Flappers (1927)
Actor
Someone to Love (1928)
as Harriet Newton
Hell's House (1932)
as Lucy Mason
The Lucky Transfer (1915)
as Helen Holland
The Inferior Sex (1920)
as Clarissa Mott-Smith
Her Mother's Daughter (1915)
as Marie's Mother
The Steadfast Heart (1923)
as Mrs. Burke
The Argyle Case (1917)
as Nellie Marsh
The Hidden Woman (1922)
as Mrs. Randolph
The Unpardonable Sin (1919)
as Mrs. Parcot
The Earth Woman (1926)
as Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman)
Politics (1931)
as Mary Evans
Under the Rouge (1925)
as Martha Maynard
Macbeth (1916)
as Lady Macduff
The Happy Warrior (1925)
as Aunt Maggie
Strange Interlude (1932)
as Mary, Leeds' Maid
An Innocent Magdalene (1916)
as The Woman
Faint Perfume (1925)
as Ma Crumb
The Joy Girl (1927)
as Mrs. Courage
Fools for Luck (1928)
as Mrs. Hunter
The Empty Cradle (1923)
as Alice Larkin
Honest Hutch (1920)
as Mrs. Hutchins
The Bond Boy (1923)
as Mrs. Newboat
Ghosts (1915)
as Helen Alving
April Fool (1926)
as Amelia Rosen
Lovey Mary (1926)
as Mrs. Wiggs
Lord Chumley (1914)
as Jessie - Butterworth's Sweetheart
The Narrow Path (1916)
as Shirley Martin
The Old Nest (1921)
as Mrs. Anthon
Brown of Harvard (1926)
as Mrs. Brown
The Potters (1927)
as Ma Potter
Acquitted (1916)
as Mrs. Carter
Erstwhile Susan (1919)
as Erstwhile Susan
The Broken Butterfly (1919)
as Zabie Elliot
The Quicksands (1914)
Actor
The Witching Hour (1921)
as Helen Whipple
Pillars of Society (1916)
as Lona Tonnesen
The Unwritten Law (1925)
as Miss Grant
Siege (1925)
Actor
The Naulahka (1918)
as Prince's Mother
Girl Overboard (1929)
Actor
Another Chance (1914)
as Mrs. Mason
The Narrow Path (1918)
as Margaret Dunn
A Brass Button (1911)
as Mrs. Lowden
Milestones (1920)
as Rose Sibley
The Beloved Brute (1924)
as Augustina
Notoriety (1922)
as Ann Boland