Acting
Alice Hollister
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.
Filmography
The Dancers
Film · 1925
Married Flirts
Film · 1924
The Forgotten Law
Film · 1922
A Wise Fool
Film · 1921
A Voice in the Dark
Film · 1921
The Great Lover
Film · 1920
Milestones
Film · 1920
Loaded Dice
Film · 1918
The Knife
Film · 1918
A Son of Strife
Film · 1918
Her Better Self
Film · 1917
The Lotus Woman
Film · 1916
The Man in Hiding
Film · 1915
The Net of Deceit
Film · 1915
The Sign of the Broken Shackles
Film · 1915
The Money Gulf
Film · 1915
Honor Thy Father
Film · 1915
The Destroyer
Film · 1915
A Sister's Burden
Film · 1915
The Stolen Ruby
Film · 1915
The Siren's Reign
Film · 1915
The Haunting Fear
Film · 1915
Don Caesar de Bazan
Film · 1915
The Maker of Dreams
Film · 1915
The Scorpion's Sting
Film · 1915
The Crooked Path
Film · 1915
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
Film · 1914
Her Husband's Friend
Film · 1914
The Shadow
Film · 1914
The Cabaret Dancer
Film · 1914
Through the Flames
Film · 1914
A Celebrated Case
Film · 1914
The Treasure Ship
Film · 1914
The Show Girl's Glove
Film · 1914
The Brand
Film · 1914
The Hand of Fate
Film · 1914
The Storm at Sea
Film · 1914
The Devil's Dansant
Film · 1914
Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler
Film · 1914
The Vampire's Trail
Film · 1914
Into the Depths
Film · 1914
Seed and the Harvest
Film · 1914
The Barefoot Boy
Film · 1914
The False Guardian
Film · 1914
The Menace of Fate
Film · 1914
A Midnight Tragedy
Film · 1914
The Man of Iron
Film · 1914
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
Film · 1914
The Hate That Withers
Film · 1914
Her Bitter Lesson
Film · 1914
A Victim of Heredity
Film · 1913
The Terror of Conscience
Film · 1913
The Wheel of Death
Film · 1913
Shenandoah
Film · 1913
A Stolen Identity
Film · 1913
The Lost Diamond
Film · 1913
The Hidden Witness
Film · 1913
A Virginia Feud
Film · 1913
The Blind Basket Weaver
Film · 1913
The Bribe
Film · 1913
The Hobo and the Myth
Film · 1913
The Fatal Legacy
Film · 1913
Frayed Fagin's Adventures
Film · 1913
The Padrone's Plot
Film · 1913
Primitive Man
Film · 1913
The Message of the Palms
Film · 1913
The Prosecuting Attorney
Film · 1913
A Sawmill Hazard
Film · 1913
A Desperate Chance
Film · 1913
The Peril of the Dance Hall
Film · 1913
The Wartime Siren
Film · 1913
A Mississippi Tragedy
Film · 1913
The Scimitar of the Prophet
Film · 1913
The Alien
Film · 1913
Man's Greed for Gold
Film · 1913
The Vampire
Film · 1913
Driving Home the Cows
Film · 1912
Dust of the Desert
Film · 1912
A Prisoner of the Harem
Film · 1912
An Arabian Tragedy
Film · 1912
The Poacher's Pardon
Film · 1912
Ireland, the Oppressed
Film · 1912
The Little Gluers
Film · 1912
The Shaughraun
Film · 1912
From the Manger to the Cross
Film · 1912
Tragedy of the Desert
Film · 1912
Far from Erin's Isle
Film · 1912
Vagabonds
Film · 1912
By a Woman's Wit
Film · 1911
The Colleen Bawn
Film · 1911
The Fiddler’s Requiem
Film · 1911
The Fishermaid of Ballydavid
Film · 1911