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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.
Movie | One More Spring | 1935-02-15 | |
Movie | Hell's House | Lucy Mason | 1932-01-30 |
Movie | Strange Interlude | Mary, Leeds' Maid | 1932-12-30 |
Movie | Politics | Mary Evans | 1931-02-26 |
Movie | The Bad Sister | Minor Role (uncredited) | 1931-03-29 |
Movie | Girl Overboard | 1929-07-28 | |
Movie | Ladies of the Mob | Soft Annie | 1928-06-30 |
Movie | The Cossacks | Lukashka's mother | 1928-06-23 |
Movie | The Sawdust Paradise | Mother | 1928-06-28 |
Movie | The Potters | Ma Potter | 1927-01-15 |
Movie | The Joy Girl | Mrs. Courage | 1927-09-03 |
Movie | The Earth Woman | Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman) | 1926-04-04 |
Movie | April Fool | Amelia Rosen | 1926-11-15 |
Movie | Brown of Harvard | Mrs. Brown | 1926-05-02 |
Movie | Faint Perfume | 1925-06-08 | |
Movie | The Happy Warrior | 1925-07-05 | |
Movie | The Plastic Age | Mrs. Carver | 1925-12-15 |
Movie | Painted People | Mrs. Bryne | 1924-01-28 |
Movie | Babbitt | Mrs. Myra Babbitt | 1924-06-15 |
Movie | Pleasure Mad | Marjorie Benton | 1923-11-05 |
Movie | The Witching Hour | 1921-04-10 | |
Movie | The Old Nest | Mrs. Anthon | 1921-06-28 |
Movie | Parted Curtains | Mrs. Masters | 1920-04-02 |
Movie | Silk Husbands and Calico Wives | 1920-01-01 | |
Movie | Milestones | Rose Sibley | 1920-09-09 |
Movie | Honest Hutch | Mrs. Hutchins | 1920-09-19 |
Movie | The Unpardonable Sin | 1919-04-01 | |
Movie | Erstwhile Susan | Erstwhile Susan | 1919-11-16 |
Movie | The Broken Butterfly | Zabie Elliot | 1919-11-01 |
Movie | The Naulahka | Prince's Mother | 1918-02-14 |
Movie | The Narrow Path | Margaret Dunn | 1918-12-15 |
Movie | The Argyle Case | Nellie Marsh | 1917-02-06 |
Movie | An Innocent Magdalene | The Woman | 1916-06-18 |
Movie | Macbeth | Lady Macduff | 1916-01-02 |
Movie | Acquitted | Mrs. Carter | 1916-02-06 |
Movie | The Good Bad Man | Jane Stuart | 1916-04-21 |
Movie | Pillars of Society | Lona Tonnesen | 1916-08-27 |
Movie | Less Than the Dust | Mrs. Bradshaw | 1916-11-04 |
Movie | Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages | Uplifter | 1916-09-04 |
Movie | The Narrow Path | 1916-09-03 | |
Movie | The Birth of a Nation | Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia | 1915-02-08 |
Movie | Ghosts | Helen Alving | 1915-05-31 |
Movie | The Lucky Transfer | Helen Holland | 1915-03-10 |
Movie | The Lily and the Rose | Mrs. Fairfax | 1915-11-06 |
Movie | Her Mother's Daughter | Marie's Mother | 1915-12-08 |
Movie | The Quicksands | 1914-05-01 | |
Movie | The Battle of the Sexes | Mrs. Frank Andrews | 1914-04-12 |
Movie | Home, Sweet Home | The Mother | 1914-05-16 |
Movie | The Little Country Mouse | Dorothy's Cousin | 1914-11-16 |
Movie | Another Chance | Mrs. Mason | 1914-11-24 |
Movie | The Second Mrs. Roebuck | Katherine Roebuck | 1914-08-23 |