Mary Alden

Also Known As: Mary Maguire Alden

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Birthday: June 18, 1883

Deathday: July 02, 1946

Adult: No

Gender: Female

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Known For:

The Birth of a Nation
Erstwhile Susan
The Earth Woman
I Am Not a Racist
The Land of Promise
Fools for Luck
The Naulahka
The Quicksands
The Beloved Brute
Pleasure Mad
Lord Chumley
Miss Nobody
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
Man's Prerogative
Another Chance
Macbeth
Strange Interlude
Politics
A Brass Button
The Cossacks
The Bond Boy
Snowblind
Ladies of the Mob
Twin Flappers
April Fool
The Old Nest
Brown of Harvard
The Good Bad-Man
The Hidden Woman
Cigar Butts
Her Mother's Daughter
Honest Hutch
The Joy Girl
One More Spring
Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
Siege
Hell's House
An Innocent Magdalene
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Sawdust Paradise
Less Than the Dust
Pillars of Society
Painted People
Home, Sweet Home
Faint Perfume
Ghosts
Girl Overboard
The Lily and the Rose
The Potters
The Battle of the Sexes
The Unpardonable Sin
The Narrow Path
The Narrow Path
Babbitt
The Happy Warrior
The Plastic Age
The Witching Hour
The Broken Butterfly
The Little Country Mouse
The Bad Sister
Milestones
The Unwritten Law
A Woman's Woman
The Lucky Transfer
Acquitted
Hell-to-Pay Austin
Lovey Mary
Parted Curtains
Someone to Love
Under the Rouge