Alice Hollister
Acting
Born 1886-09-28
Died 1973-02-24
Worcester - Massachusetts - USA
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
57 credits
The Vampire
The Brand
The Dancers
A Sister's Burden
The Money Gulf
The Prosecuting Attorney
An Arabian Tragedy
The Lotus Woman
Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler
A Wise Fool
From the Manger to the Cross
The Siren's Reign
The Man of Iron
The Fiddler’s Requiem
A Midnight Tragedy
The Hate That Withers
A Prisoner of the Harem
Her Husband's Friend
The Great Lover
Married Flirts
The Forgotten Law
The Knife
A Voice in the Dark
The Net of Deceit
The Shaughraun
The Barefoot Boy
The Padrone's Plot
Don Caesar de Bazan
The Shadow
The Bribe
The Colleen Bawn
The Stolen Ruby
By a Woman's Wit
The Fatal Legacy
The Haunting Fear
Through the Flames
Milestones
A Sawmill Hazard
Her Bitter Lesson
The False Guardian
Her Better Self
Primitive Man
The Scimitar of the Prophet
The Treasure Ship
Shenandoah
Honor Thy Father
The Message of the Palms
Man's Greed for Gold
The Hand of Fate
The Terror of Conscience
Ireland, the Oppressed
The Scorpion's Sting
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
The Hidden Witness
The Lost Diamond
The Storm at Sea
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