Mary Alden
Acting
Born: June 18, 1883 · New York City, New York, USA
Died: July 2, 1946 (aged 63)
Highest Rated
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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Movies (67)
The Birth of a Nation
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Uplifter
The Bad Sister
Minor Role (uncredited)
The Cossacks
Lukashka's mother
Babbitt
Mrs. Myra Babbitt
Snowblind
Bella
One More Spring
1935
Pleasure Mad
Marjorie Benton
When a Girl Loves
The Czarina
The Good Bad-Man
Jane Stuart
Soiled
Mrs. Brown
Faint Perfume
Ma Crumb
Painted People
Mrs. Bryne
Miss Nobody
Jason's Wife
Hell's House
Lucy Mason
The Naulahka
Prince's Mother
Has the World Gone Mad!
Mrs. Bell
Ladies of the Mob
Soft Annie
Pillars of Society
Lona Tonnesen
Someone to Love
Harriet Newton
The Little Country Mouse
Dorothy's Cousin
The Sawdust Paradise
Mother
The Argyle Case
Nellie Marsh
The Plastic Age
Mrs. Carver
Parted Curtains
Mrs. Masters
The Eagle's Feather
Delia Jamieson
Strange Interlude
Mary, Leeds' Maid
The Battle of the Sexes
Mrs. Frank Andrews
Girl Overboard
1929
Brown of Harvard
Mrs. Brown
The Land of Promise
Gertie Marsh
Man With Two Mothers
1922
The Narrow Path
Margaret Dunn
The Lily and the Rose
Mrs. Fairfax
The Unpardonable Sin
Mrs. Parcot
I Am Not a Racist
The Housekeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
Less Than the Dust
Mrs. Bradshaw
The Joy Girl
Mrs. Courage
Home, Sweet Home
The Mother
Under the Rouge
Martha Maynard
The Earth Woman
Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman)
Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
Edith Beecher Kendall
A Woman's Woman
Densie Plummer
Notoriety
Ann Boland
An Innocent Magdalene
The Woman
The Witching Hour
Helen Whipple
Ghosts
Helen Alving
Honest Hutch
Mrs. Hutchins
The Empty Cradle
Alice Larkin
Macbeth
Lady Macduff
Man's Prerogative
Elizabeth Towne
The Bond Boy
Mrs. Newboat
The Old Nest
Mrs. Anthon
Lovey Mary
Mrs. Wiggs
The Inferior Sex
Clarissa Mott-Smith
The Broken Butterfly
Zabie Elliot
The Potters
Ma Potter
Politics
Mary Evans
Milestones
Rose Sibley
Fools for Luck
Mrs. Hunter
The Happy Warrior
Aunt Maggie
The Narrow Path
Shirley Martin
The Hidden Woman
Mrs. Randolph
Siege
1925
April Fool
Amelia Rosen
Erstwhile Susan
Erstwhile Susan
The Beloved Brute
Augustina