Mary Alden
80 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 18, 1883
- Died
- Jul 2, 1946 (age 63)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Mary Maguire Alden
Biography
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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.
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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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 5.9 The Birth of a Nation
1915 · Film
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★ 7.1 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916 · Film
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★ 5.2 Hell's House
1932 · Film
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★ 5.6 The Bad Sister
1931 · Film
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★ 6.2 The Plastic Age
1925 · Film
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★ 5.0 Home, Sweet Home
1914 · Film
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★ 5.5 Brown of Harvard
1926 · Film
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★ 6.2 The Good Bad-Man
1916 · Film
Mary Alden: movies and TV shows
Acting (80)
- 2019 I Am Not a Racist
as The Housekeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1935
- 1932 Strange Interlude
as Mary, Leeds' Maid
- 1932 Hell's House
as Lucy Mason
- 1931 The Bad Sister
as Minor Role (uncredited)
- 1931 Politics
as Mary Evans
- 1929
- 1928 Someone to Love
as Harriet Newton
- 1928 Ladies of the Mob
as Soft Annie
- 1928 The Sawdust Paradise
as Mother
- 1928 The Cossacks
as Lukashka's mother
- 1928 Fools for Luck
as Mrs. Hunter
- 1927
- 1927 The Joy Girl
as Mrs. Courage
- 1927 The Potters
as Ma Potter
- 1926 April Fool
as Amelia Rosen
- 1926 Lovey Mary
as Mrs. Wiggs
- 1926 Brown of Harvard
as Mrs. Brown
- 1926 The Earth Woman
as Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman)
- 1925 The Plastic Age
as Mrs. Carver
- 1925 Soiled
as Mrs. Brown
- 1925 Under the Rouge
as Martha Maynard
- 1925
- 1925 The Unwritten Law
as Miss Grant
- 1925 The Happy Warrior
as Aunt Maggie
- 1925 Faint Perfume
as Ma Crumb
- 1924 The Beloved Brute
as Augustina
- 1924 Babbitt
as Mrs. Myra Babbitt
- 1924 When a Girl Loves
as The Czarina
- 1924 Painted People
as Mrs. Bryne
- 1923 Pleasure Mad
as Marjorie Benton
- 1923 The Eagle's Feather
as Delia Jamieson
- 1923 The Steadfast Heart
as Mrs. Burke
- 1923 The Bond Boy
as Mrs. Newboat
- 1923 The Empty Cradle
as Alice Larkin
- 1923 Has the World Gone Mad!
as Mrs. Bell
- 1922 Notoriety
as Ann Boland
- 1922 A Woman's Woman
as Densie Plummer
- 1922 The Hidden Woman
as Mrs. Randolph
- 1922
- 1921 The Old Nest
as Mrs. Anthon
- 1921 The Witching Hour
as Helen Whipple
- 1921 Snowblind
as Bella
- 1920 Honest Hutch
as Mrs. Hutchins
- 1920 Milestones
as Rose Sibley
- 1920 Miss Nobody
as Jason's Wife
- 1920 Parted Curtains
as Mrs. Masters
- 1920 The Inferior Sex
as Clarissa Mott-Smith
- 1920 Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
as Edith Beecher Kendall
- 1919 Erstwhile Susan
as Erstwhile Susan
- 1919 The Broken Butterfly
as Zabie Elliot
- 1919 The Unpardonable Sin
as Mrs. Parcot
- 1918 The Narrow Path
as Margaret Dunn
- 1918 The Naulahka
as Prince's Mother
- 1917 The Land of Promise
as Gertie Marsh
- 1917 The Argyle Case
as Nellie Marsh
- 1916 Less Than the Dust
as Mrs. Bradshaw
- 1916 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as Uplifter
- 1916 The Narrow Path
as Shirley Martin
- 1916 Pillars of Society
as Lona Tonnesen
- 1916 Hell-to-Pay Austin
as Doris Valentine
- 1916 An Innocent Magdalene
as The Woman
- 1916 Macbeth
as Lady Macduff
- 1916 The Good Bad-Man
as Jane Stuart
- 1916 Acquitted
as Mrs. Carter
- 1915 Her Mother's Daughter
as Marie's Mother
- 1915 The Lily and the Rose
as Mrs. Fairfax
- 1915 Ghosts
as Helen Alving
- 1915 Man's Prerogative
as Elizabeth Towne
- 1915 The Lucky Transfer
as Helen Holland
- 1915 The Birth of a Nation
as Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
- 1914 Another Chance
as Mrs. Mason
- 1914 The Little Country Mouse
as Dorothy's Cousin
- 1914 The Second Mrs. Roebuck
as Katherine Roebuck
- 1914 Lord Chumley
as Jessie - Butterworth's Sweetheart
- 1914 Home, Sweet Home
as The Mother
- 1914
- 1914
- 1914 The Battle of the Sexes
as Mrs. Frank Andrews
- 1911 A Brass Button
as Mrs. Lowden