Mary Alden
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.
The Birth of a Nation
as Stoneman's Housekeeper LydiaTwo families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons,...
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as UplifterThe story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven...
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The Plastic Age
as Mrs. CarverHugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with...
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Brown of Harvard
as Mrs. BrownTom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew,...
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The Bad Sister
as Minor Role (uncredited)Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's...
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The Good Bad Man
as Jane StuartAn outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some...
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The Cossacks
as Lukashka's motherStirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war...
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Hell's House
as Lucy MasonA teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.
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Home, Sweet Home
as The MotherJohn Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his...
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Strange Interlude
as Mary, Leeds' MaidAfter Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with...
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I Am Not a Racist
as the housekeeperA parody of D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation", "I Am Not a Racist" rearranges the scenes...
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The Sawdust Paradise
as MotherShe dances- The Dance of Death. She Sings- The song of Life. Scintillating, Fascinating,...
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The Battle of the Sexes
as Mrs. Frank AndrewsFrank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of...
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April Fool
as Amelia RosenAn out-of-work pants presser starts an umbrella business and makes a fortune. His daughter is...
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Pillars of Society
as Lona TonnesenBased on Henrik Ibsen's play from 1877.
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Honest Hutch
as Mrs. HutchinsOrt Hutchins is a confirmed loafer who spends all of his time fishing while his wife toils over...
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The Land of Promise
as Gertie MarshBased on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life...
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The Potters
as Ma PotterPa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?
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The Naulahka
as Prince's MotherTrying to win the Three C's railroad line for his home town of Topaz, Colorado, Nicholas "Nick"...
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Fools for Luck
as Mrs. HunterWealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There...
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One More Spring
as uncreditedThree people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living...
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The Unpardonable Sin
as Mrs. ParcotBased on the Rupert Hughes novel, this film concerns the German atrocities committed in Belgium...
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Politics
as Mary EvansA widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
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Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
as uncreditedAfter small-town attorney Deane Kendall wins an important case, a prestigious law firm lures him...
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A Woman's Woman
as Densie PlummerA woman finds herself being a unpaid skivvy to her husband, two daughters and her son.
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The Little Country Mouse
as Dorothy's CousinCountry girl May loses at cards and must borrow $250 from Captain Stiles, but the wealthy roué's...
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The Narrow Path
as Shirley MartinBessie Allen, a girl of the slums, dances in the streets of the Lower East Side of New York to...
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An Innocent Magdalene
as The WomanWhen Dorothy's Southern, aristocratic father Colonel Raleigh refuses to let her marry Forbes...
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Ladies of the Mob
as Soft AnnieA dead criminal's daughter falls in love with a small-time crook and tries to get him to reform...
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Parted Curtains
as Mrs. MastersA young man just released from prison can't find work because no employer will hire an...
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The Witching Hour
as Helen WhippleClay Whipple is convicted of murdering the governor following an incident involving a cat's eye...
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Man's Prerogative
as Elizabeth TowneOliver and Elizabeth wed. He is a famous lawyer, careless of his personal conduct, but has...
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The Bond Boy
as Mrs. NewboatFor the sake of his impoverished mother, Joe Newbolt bonds himself to harsh Isom Chase. Ollie...
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Milestones
as Rose Sibley1860 ushers in the era of iron ships, Richard Sibley, a builder of wooden ships, stubbornly...
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The Earth Woman
as Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman)The story is set in the hills of Tennessee, where practically everybody gets smashed on rotgut...
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The Narrow Path
as Margaret DunnMarion Clark, a manicurist, is unimpressed by the wealthy but dissipated men who frequent her...
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The Happy Warrior
as Aunt MaggieMalcolm McGregor joins the circus and falls in love with Olive Borden but his life changes when...
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The Joy Girl
as Mrs. CourageThough she loves one man, an ambitious Palm Beach girl marries another, whom she thinks is rich....
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Erstwhile Susan
as Erstwhile SusanBarnabetta Dreary's grim life of slaving for her Pennsylvania Dutch father Barnaby and her two...
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Babbitt
as Mrs. Myra BabbittA small-town businessman bumbles into blackmail and a real-estate swindle.
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Painted People
as Mrs. BryneA 1924 film directed by Clarence G. Badger.
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The Broken Butterfly
as Zabie ElliotA woman in Canada abused by her aunt falls in love with a foreign composer looking for...
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Snowblind
as BellaHugh Garth hides from the law in the frozen Canadian northwest along with his young brother Pete...
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The Hidden Woman
as Mrs. RandolphAnn Wesley, a wealthy society girl is loved by Bart Andrews. Andrews reproaches Ann for her...
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The Beloved Brute
as AugustinaA Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a...
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Acquitted
as Mrs. CarterHard-working insurance company bookkeeper John Carter, comes home Easter eve to his suburban...
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Ghosts
as Helen AlvingCaptain Alving, a notorious rake and financially irresponsible, seeks wealthy heiress Helen's...
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Faint Perfume
as Ma CrumbAfter a stormy six year marriage, Barnaby Powers divorces his wife Richmiel. She returns home,...
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Less Than the Dust
as Mrs. BradshawYoung Hindu woman Radha, becomes best friends with Captain Raymond Townsend during his service...
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The Old Nest
as Mrs. AnthonA mother raises her six children and one by one lets them go out into the world. Their failures...
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Girl Overboard
as uncreditedA young man is sentenced to prison for a term of eight years, yet he's allowed out if he...
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Miss Nobody
as Jason's WifeA raft carrying a little girl and a dead woman drifts in from a shipwreck to Devil's Island....
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