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)
Ladies of the Mob
as Soft Annie
(1928)
The Sawdust Paradise
as Mother
(1928)
Fools for Luck
as Mrs. Hunter
(1928)
Someone to Love
as Harriet Newton
(1927)
The Joy Girl
as Mrs. Courage
(1927)
The Potters
as Ma Potter
(1927)
(1926)
Brown of Harvard
as Mrs. Brown
(1926)
April Fool
as Amelia Rosen
(1926)
The Earth Woman
as Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman)
(1926)
Lovey Mary
as Mrs. Wiggs
(1925)
The Plastic Age
as Mrs. Carver
(1925)
The Unwritten Law
as Miss Grant
(1925)
Faint Perfume
as Ma Crumb
(1925)
(1925)
Under the Rouge
as Martha Maynard
(1925)
The Happy Warrior
as Aunt Maggie
(1924)
Painted People
as Mrs. Bryne
(1924)
The Beloved Brute
as Augustina
(1924)
Babbitt
as Mrs. Myra Babbitt
(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)
The Witching Hour
as Helen Whipple
(1921)
The Old Nest
as Mrs. Anthon
(1921)
Snowblind
as Bella
(1920)
Milestones
as Rose Sibley
(1920)
Parted Curtains
as Mrs. Masters
(1920)
Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
as Edith Beecher Kendall
(1920)
Honest Hutch
as Mrs. Hutchins
(1920)
Miss Nobody
as Jason's Wife
(1919)
The Broken Butterfly
as Zabie Elliot
(1919)
The Unpardonable Sin
as Mrs. Parcot
(1919)
Erstwhile Susan
as Erstwhile Susan
(1918)
The Naulahka
as Prince's Mother
(1918)
The Narrow Path
as Margaret Dunn
(1917)
The Land of Promise
as Gertie Marsh
(1916)
(1916)
An Innocent Magdalene
as The Woman
(1916)
Less Than the Dust
as Mrs. Bradshaw
(1916)
Hell-to-Pay Austin
as Doris Valentine
(1916)
The Good Bad-Man
as Jane Stuart
(1916)
Pillars of Society
as Lona Tonnesen
(1916)
The Narrow Path
as Shirley Martin
(1916)
Macbeth
as Lady Macduff
(1916)
Acquitted
as Mrs. Carter
(1915)
The Birth of a Nation
as Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
(1915)
Man's Prerogative
as Elizabeth Towne
(1915)
Ghosts
as Helen Alving
(1915)
The Lucky Transfer
as Helen Holland
(1915)
The Lily and the Rose
as Mrs. Fairfax
(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 Second Mrs. Roebuck
as Katherine Roebuck
(1914)
(1914)
The Little Country Mouse
as Dorothy's Cousin
(1914)
Another Chance
as Mrs. Mason
(1914)
(1911)
A Brass Button
as Mrs. Lowden