Acting
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.
Filmography
I Am Not a Racist
Film · 2019
One More Spring
Film · 1935
Strange Interlude
Film · 1932
Hell's House
Film · 1932
Politics
Film · 1931
The Bad Sister
Film · 1931
Girl Overboard
Film · 1929
Fools for Luck
Film · 1928
The Cossacks
Film · 1928
Ladies of the Mob
Film · 1928
The Sawdust Paradise
Film · 1928
Someone to Love
Film · 1928
Twin Flappers
Film · 1927
The Joy Girl
Film · 1927
The Potters
Film · 1927
The Earth Woman
Film · 1926
April Fool
Film · 1926
Brown of Harvard
Film · 1926
Lovey Mary
Film · 1926
Siege
Film · 1925
Faint Perfume
Film · 1925
The Happy Warrior
Film · 1925
The Plastic Age
Film · 1925
The Unwritten Law
Film · 1925
Under the Rouge
Film · 1925
Soiled
Film · 1925
The Beloved Brute
Film · 1924
Painted People
Film · 1924
Babbitt
Film · 1924
When a Girl Loves
Film · 1924
Pleasure Mad
Film · 1923
The Bond Boy
Film · 1923
The Empty Cradle
Film · 1923
The Eagle's Feather
Film · 1923
The Steadfast Heart
Film · 1923
Has the World Gone Mad!
Film · 1923
The Hidden Woman
Film · 1922
A Woman's Woman
Film · 1922
Notoriety
Film · 1922
Man With Two Mothers
Film · 1922
Snowblind
Film · 1921
The Old Nest
Film · 1921
The Witching Hour
Film · 1921
Miss Nobody
Film · 1920
Honest Hutch
Film · 1920
Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
Film · 1920
Milestones
Film · 1920
Parted Curtains
Film · 1920
The Inferior Sex
Film · 1920
Erstwhile Susan
Film · 1919
The Unpardonable Sin
Film · 1919
The Broken Butterfly
Film · 1919
The Naulahka
Film · 1918
The Narrow Path
Film · 1918
The Land of Promise
Film · 1917
The Argyle Case
Film · 1917
Macbeth
Film · 1916
The Good Bad-Man
Film · 1916
An Innocent Magdalene
Film · 1916
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Film · 1916
Less Than the Dust
Film · 1916
Pillars of Society
Film · 1916
The Narrow Path
Film · 1916
Acquitted
Film · 1916
Hell-to-Pay Austin
Film · 1916
The Birth of a Nation
Film · 1915
Man's Prerogative
Film · 1915
Her Mother's Daughter
Film · 1915
Ghosts
Film · 1915
The Lily and the Rose
Film · 1915
The Lucky Transfer
Film · 1915
The Quicksands
Film · 1914
Lord Chumley
Film · 1914
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
Film · 1914
Another Chance
Film · 1914
Cigar Butts
Film · 1914
Home, Sweet Home
Film · 1914
The Battle of the Sexes
Film · 1914
The Little Country Mouse
Film · 1914
A Brass Button
Film · 1911