Alice Hollister
Acting
Born: September 28, 1886 · Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Died: February 24, 1973 (aged 86)
Highest Rated
Biography
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.
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Movies (57)
Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler
Mary Redding - Kit's Wife
The Vampire
Sybil
Loaded Dice
1918
The Brand
Rose Hayden - a Girl of the Slums
The Dancers
Mrs. Mayne
The Forgotten Law
Rosalie
Married Flirts
Mrs. Callender
The Barefoot Boy
Eleanor Hastings - the Mother
Dust of the Desert
1912
A Sister's Burden
Martha Hensley - the Elder Daughter
Don Caesar de Bazan
Maritana
Tragedy of the Desert
Zenab, The Arab Girl
The Vampire's Trail
Rita Caselli - a Cabaret Singer
From the Manger to the Cross
Mary Magdalene
By a Woman's Wit
Pamela
The Man of Iron
Margery Stanley - the Daughter
An Arabian Tragedy
Hanifi (Slave Girl) Ayub's 2nd Wife
Her Better Self
Aggie May
The Siren's Reign
Grace - a Soubrette
Man's Greed for Gold
Mrs. Carter
The Colleen Bawn
Anne Chute
A Voice in the Dark
Amelia Ellingham
A Wise Fool
Carmen Dolores
The Message of the Palms
Lovie Carlton - the Colonel's Daughter
The Fatal Legacy
Maud Halleck - Jack's Wife
The Great Lover
Bianca
The Lotus Woman
Juana
The Terror of Conscience
Carmela - the Street Singer
The Maker of Dreams
Lorna Greene - the Daughter
The Show Girl's Glove
Stella Desmond - the Show Girl
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
Katherine Lowther
The Scimitar of the Prophet
Doris Harris - his wife
The Scorpion's Sting
Lyda Marston - the Daughter
The Treasure Ship
Beth Bascom - the Daughter
The Sign of the Broken Shackles
Irene Cross - a Tenant
Far from Erin's Isle
1912
The Haunting Fear
Katherine
Shenandoah
Mrs. Constance Haverhill
The Devil's Dansant
Valerie Farrar - the Wife
The Poacher's Pardon
Dora - the Gamekeeper's Daughter
The Knife
Stella Hill
Milestones
Gertrude Rhead
The Prosecuting Attorney
The Attorney's Wife
The Lost Diamond
Nancy - the Accomplice
The Crooked Path
Mary - an Orphan
The Destroyer
Cherie - a Dancer
Frayed Fagin's Adventures
1913
The Little Gluers
Nora Drew
Primitive Man
Betty - a Girl of the Mountains
Ireland, the Oppressed
Peggy
A Stolen Identity
Mildred Anderson
The Wartime Siren
Rosalie Ashby
The Cabaret Dancer
Martha - Don's Sweetheart
The Blind Basket Weaver
Anna - Paul's Crippled Sweetheart
A Mississippi Tragedy
1913
A Virginia Feud
Rose McDonald
The Alien
Josina - Paola's Wife