Mary Alden
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1883-06-18
Day of Death
1946-07-02 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Mary 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.
Known For
Acting
(2019)
I Am Not a Racist
as the housekeeper
(1935)
(1932)
Hell's House
as Lucy Mason
(1932)
Strange Interlude
as Mary, Leeds' Maid
(1931)
The Bad Sister
as Minor Role (uncredited)
(1931)
Politics
as Mary Evans
(1929)
(1928)
The Cossacks
as Lukashka's mother
(1928)
Someone to Love
as Harriet Newton
(1928)
Ladies of the Mob
as Soft Annie
(1928)
The Sawdust Paradise
as Mother
(1928)
Fools for Luck
as Mrs. Hunter
(1927)
The Joy Girl
as Mrs. Courage
(1927)
The Potters
as Ma Potter
(1927)
(1926)
Lovey Mary
as Mrs. Wiggs
(1926)
April Fool
as Amelia Rosen
(1926)
The Earth Woman
as Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman)
(1926)
Brown of Harvard
as Mrs. Brown
(1925)
(1925)
The Plastic Age
as Mrs. Carver
(1925)
The Happy Warrior
as Aunt Maggie
(1925)
Faint Perfume
as Ma Crumb
(1925)
The Unwritten Law
as Miss Grant
(1925)
Under the Rouge
as Martha Maynard
(1924)
Babbitt
as Mrs. Myra Babbitt
(1924)
Painted People
as Mrs. Bryne
(1924)
The Beloved Brute
as Augustina
(1924)
When a Girl Loves
as The Czarina
(1923)
Pleasure Mad
as Marjorie Benton
(1923)
The Bond Boy
as Mrs. Newboat
(1922)
A Woman's Woman
as Densie Plummer
(1922)
The Hidden Woman
as Mrs. Randolph
(1921)
Snowblind
as Bella
(1921)
The Old Nest
as Mrs. Anthon
(1921)
The Witching Hour
as Helen Whipple
(1920)
Honest Hutch
as Mrs. Hutchins
(1920)
Parted Curtains
as Mrs. Masters
(1920)
Milestones
as Rose Sibley
(1920)
(1920)
Miss Nobody
as Jason's Wife
(1919)
Erstwhile Susan
as Erstwhile Susan
(1919)
The Unpardonable Sin
as Mrs. Parcot
(1919)
The Broken Butterfly
as Zabie Elliot
(1918)
The Naulahka
as Prince's Mother
(1918)
The Narrow Path
as Margaret Dunn
(1917)
The Land of Promise
as Gertie Marsh
(1916)
(1916)
Acquitted
as Mrs. Carter
(1916)
Macbeth
as Lady Macduff
(1916)
The Good Bad-Man
as Jane Stuart
(1916)
Less Than the Dust
as Mrs. Bradshaw
(1916)
An Innocent Magdalene
as The Woman
(1916)
Pillars of Society
as Lona Tonnesen
(1916)
The Narrow Path
as Shirley Martin
(1916)
Hell-to-Pay Austin
as Doris Valentine
(1915)
The Birth of a Nation
as Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
(1915)
Ghosts
as Helen Alving
(1915)
The Lily and the Rose
as Mrs. Fairfax
(1915)
Man's Prerogative
as Elizabeth Towne
(1915)
The Lucky Transfer
as Helen Holland
(1915)
Her Mother's Daughter
as Marie's Mother
(1914)
Home, Sweet Home
as The Mother
(1914)
Lord Chumley
as Jessie - Butterworth's Sweetheart
(1914)
The Battle of the Sexes
as Mrs. Frank Andrews
(1914)
The Little Country Mouse
as Dorothy's Cousin
(1914)
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
as Katherine Roebuck
(1914)
Another Chance
as Mrs. Mason
(1914)
(1914)
(1911)
A Brass Button
as Mrs. Lowden