Mary Alden
Acting
Born 1883-06-18
Died 1946-07-02
New York City, New York, USA
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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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Acting
53 credits
The Birth of a Nation
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Sawdust Paradise
Snowblind
Soiled
The Bad Sister
Painted People
Parted Curtains
Pleasure Mad
Someone to Love
The Plastic Age
Babbitt
Ghosts
Miss Nobody
The Good Bad-Man
The Steadfast Heart
The Eagle's Feather
The Unpardonable Sin
Home, Sweet Home
The Lucky Transfer
The Cossacks
Strange Interlude
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
When a Girl Loves
Politics
The Battle of the Sexes
The Earth Woman
Lord Chumley
The Broken Butterfly
Macbeth
The Inferior Sex
The Joy Girl
The Happy Warrior
Brown of Harvard
Has the World Gone Mad!
The Narrow Path
The Witching Hour
A Brass Button
Less Than the Dust
The Empty Cradle
Hell's House
Ladies of the Mob
Faint Perfume
Under the Rouge
I Am Not a Racist
April Fool
The Little Country Mouse
Hell-to-Pay Austin
A Woman's Woman
The Land of Promise
Honest Hutch
The Beloved Brute
The Old Nest
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