Mary Alden
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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 (80)
I Am Not a Racist
2019 · The Housekeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
One More Spring
1935
Strange Interlude
1932 · Mary, Leeds' Maid
Hell's House
1932 · Lucy Mason
The Bad Sister
1931 · Minor Role (uncredited)
Politics
1931 · Mary Evans
Girl Overboard
1929
Someone to Love
1928 · Harriet Newton
Ladies of the Mob
1928 · Soft Annie
The Sawdust Paradise
1928 · Mother
The Cossacks
1928 · Lukashka's mother
Fools for Luck
1928 · Mrs. Hunter
Twin Flappers
1927
The Joy Girl
1927 · Mrs. Courage
The Potters
1927 · Ma Potter
April Fool
1926 · Amelia Rosen
Lovey Mary
1926 · Mrs. Wiggs
Brown of Harvard
1926 · Mrs. Brown
The Earth Woman
1926 · Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman)
The Plastic Age
1925 · Mrs. Carver
Soiled
1925 · Mrs. Brown
Under the Rouge
1925 · Martha Maynard
Siege
1925
The Unwritten Law
1925 · Miss Grant
The Happy Warrior
1925 · Aunt Maggie
Faint Perfume
1925 · Ma Crumb
The Beloved Brute
1924 · Augustina
Babbitt
1924 · Mrs. Myra Babbitt
When a Girl Loves
1924 · The Czarina
Painted People
1924 · Mrs. Bryne
Pleasure Mad
1923 · Marjorie Benton
The Eagle's Feather
1923 · Delia Jamieson
The Steadfast Heart
1923 · Mrs. Burke
The Bond Boy
1923 · Mrs. Newboat
The Empty Cradle
1923 · Alice Larkin
Has the World Gone Mad!
1923 · Mrs. Bell
Notoriety
1922 · Ann Boland
A Woman's Woman
1922 · Densie Plummer
The Hidden Woman
1922 · Mrs. Randolph
Man With Two Mothers
1922
The Old Nest
1921 · Mrs. Anthon
The Witching Hour
1921 · Helen Whipple
Snowblind
1921 · Bella
Honest Hutch
1920 · Mrs. Hutchins
Milestones
1920 · Rose Sibley
Miss Nobody
1920 · Jason's Wife
Parted Curtains
1920 · Mrs. Masters
The Inferior Sex
1920 · Clarissa Mott-Smith
Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
1920 · Edith Beecher Kendall
Erstwhile Susan
1919 · Erstwhile Susan
The Broken Butterfly
1919 · Zabie Elliot
The Unpardonable Sin
1919 · Mrs. Parcot
The Narrow Path
1918 · Margaret Dunn
The Naulahka
1918 · Prince's Mother
The Land of Promise
1917 · Gertie Marsh
The Argyle Case
1917 · Nellie Marsh
Less Than the Dust
1916 · Mrs. Bradshaw
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916 · Uplifter
The Narrow Path
1916 · Shirley Martin
Pillars of Society
1916 · Lona Tonnesen
Hell-to-Pay Austin
1916 · Doris Valentine
An Innocent Magdalene
1916 · The Woman
Macbeth
1916 · Lady Macduff
The Good Bad-Man
1916 · Jane Stuart
Acquitted
1916 · Mrs. Carter
Her Mother's Daughter
1915 · Marie's Mother
The Lily and the Rose
1915 · Mrs. Fairfax
Ghosts
1915 · Helen Alving
Man's Prerogative
1915 · Elizabeth Towne
The Lucky Transfer
1915 · Helen Holland
The Birth of a Nation
1915 · Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Another Chance
1914 · Mrs. Mason
The Little Country Mouse
1914 · Dorothy's Cousin
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
1914 · Katherine Roebuck
Lord Chumley
1914 · Jessie - Butterworth's Sweetheart
Home, Sweet Home
1914 · The Mother
The Quicksands
1914
Cigar Butts
1914
The Battle of the Sexes
1914 · Mrs. Frank Andrews
A Brass Button
1911 · Mrs. Lowden
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