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Mary Alden is a Actor American born on 18 june 1883 at New York City (USA)

Mary Alden

Mary Alden
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Birth name Mary Maguire Alden
Nationality USA
Birth 18 june 1883 at New York City (USA)
Death 2 july 1946 (at 63 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)

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.

Biography

She was born in New York City on June 18, 1883. 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 & Television Country House and Hospital 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.
Alden was interred at the Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California.

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Filmography of Mary Alden (49 films)

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Actress

Rasputin and the Empress, 2h1
Directed by Richard Boleslawski, Charles Brabin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Morgan, Diana Wynyard, Edward Arnold
Rating64% 3.246463.246463.246463.246463.24646
The story takes place in the Russian Empire during the last years of the reign of Czar Nicholas II and the Czarina Alexandra. Reform-minded Prince Paul has long been concerned about the plight of the common people and knows a revolution is brewing. Prince Alexei, heir to the throne, is loved by the people but has hemophilia, and a slight fall turns out to be life-threatening. When royal physician Dr. Remezov is powerless to stop the boy's bleeding, Princess Natasha, Alexandra's lady-in-waiting and Paul's fiancee, recommends Rasputin as a healer. He convinces the frantic Empress that he has been sent by God to cure the child. Left alone with Alexei, he hypnotizes the boy and relieves his agony but also gradually makes Alexei a slave to his will.
Strange Interlude, 1h49
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, Ralph Morgan, Robert Young, May Robson
Roles Mary, Leeds' Maid
Rating56% 2.805862.805862.805862.805862.80586
Gordon Shaw was a flyer who was shot down and killed during World War I. Nina would have married him before he left, but her father forbade the marriage. Charlie is a friend, but Nina does not love him and he is too timid, too shy, to tell her the way that he feels about her. Sam is her husband and her love disappears after the ceremony when she finds out that there is mental illness in his family and that there can be no children.
Hell's House, 1h12
Directed by Howard Higgin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films
Actors Bette Davis, Pat O'Brien, Junior Durkin, Emma Dunn, Frank Coghlan, Jr., Charley Grapewin
Roles Lucy Mason
Rating56% 2.8498952.8498952.8498952.8498952.849895
When orphaned Jimmy Mason is taken in by his Aunt Emma and Uncle Henry, he meets their boarder, Matt Kelly, who impresses the young man with his boastful swagger and alleged political connections, although in reality he's a bootlegger.
The Bad Sister, 1h8
Directed by Hobart Henley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Escroquerie
Actors Conrad Nagel, Sidney Fox, Bette Davis, Zasu Pitts, Humphrey Bogart, Charles Winninger
Roles Minor Role (uncredited)
Rating60% 3.047133.047133.047133.047133.04713
Naive Marianne Madison, bored with her routine life, falls for dashing con artist Valentine Corliss, who has come to her small town looking for fresh marks to swindle. He soon charms her into faking her wealthy and prominent father's name on a letter of endorsement, which he presents to the other local merchants, who willingly give him merchandise. He prepares his escape, but not before conning Marianne into becoming his wife.
Fools for Luck, 1h
Directed by Charles Reisner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors W. C. Fields, Chester Conklin, Sally Blane, Mary Alden, Jack Luden, Arthur Housman
Roles Mrs. Hunter
Rating67% 3.3585653.3585653.3585653.3585653.358565
Richard Whitehead, un aigrefin, commercialise un soi-disant champ de pétrole, qui est à sec, et s'associe à Samuel Hunter, un riche excentrique. Ce dernier s'aperçoit de la supercherie et trouve le moyen de renverser la situation.
The Joy Girl, 1h10
Directed by Allan Dwan
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Olive Borden, Neil Hamilton, Marie Dressler, Mary Alden, Helen Chandler
Roles Mrs. Courage
Rating57% 2.8630052.8630052.8630052.8630052.863005
Jewel Courage (Borden) rejects a suitor (Hamilton), whom she thinks is a chauffeur, in favor of a man she thinks is a millionaire. It transpires that the roles were, in fact, reversed; Hamilton is the millionaire and the other man a chauffeur. Jewel is crushed but manages to do well for herself in business, until she and the real millionaire find themselves reconciled.
Brown of Harvard, 1h25
Directed by Jack Conway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Sports films, American football films, Films based on plays
Actors William Haines, Jack Pickford, Mary Brian, Francis X. Bushman, Jr., Mary Alden, Robert Livingston
Roles Mrs. Brown
Rating61% 3.0987553.0987553.0987553.0987553.098755
Harvard University student Tom Brown (William Haines) is a handsome, athletic, and carefree young man who has a reputation as a Don Juan among the ladies. Although he is popular on campus, he finds himself at odds with Bob McAndrew (Ralph Bushman), a studious, reserved boy who becomes his chief rival for the affections of beautiful Mary Abbott (Mary Brian), a professor's daughter. Tom rooms with Jim Doolittle (Jack Pickford), an awkward weakling but goodhearted backwoods youth who idolizes him. The brash and cocky Brown easily wins over his dormitory mates, but refuses to let them ostracize Jim.
Lovey Mary
Lovey Mary (1926)
, 1h10
Directed by King Baggot
Origin USA
Genres Comedy-drama
Actors Bessie Love, William Haines, Mary Alden, Martha Mattox, Eileen Percy, Russell Simpson
Roles Mrs. Wiggs

Lovey Mary (Love) is a runaway from an orphanage who takes a little companion and finds a home with poor and kind Mrs. Wiggs (Mary Alden). As a plus, the cheerful young girl also meets Mrs. Wiggs eldest son, Billy (William Haines).