Mary Alden
Acting • Born 1883-06-18 – Died 1946-07-02
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.
Filmography
78 credits
The Birth of a Nation
Movie • 1915
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Erstwhile Susan
Movie • 1919
Erstwhile Susan
The Earth Woman
Movie • 1926
Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman)
I Am Not a Racist
Movie • 2019
The Housekeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Land of Promise
Movie • 1917
Gertie Marsh
Fools for Luck
Movie • 1928
Mrs. Hunter
The Naulahka
Movie • 1918
Prince's Mother
The Quicksands
Movie • 1914
The Beloved Brute
Movie • 1924
Augustina
Pleasure Mad
Movie • 1923
Marjorie Benton
Lord Chumley
Movie • 1914
Jessie - Butterworth's Sweetheart
Miss Nobody
Movie • 1920
Jason's Wife
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
Movie • 1914
Katherine Roebuck
Man's Prerogative
Movie • 1915
Elizabeth Towne
Another Chance
Movie • 1914
Mrs. Mason
Macbeth
Movie • 1916
Lady Macduff
Strange Interlude
Movie • 1932
Mary, Leeds' Maid
Politics
Movie • 1931
Mary Evans
A Brass Button
Movie • 1911
Mrs. Lowden
The Cossacks
Movie • 1928
Lukashka's mother
The Bond Boy
Movie • 1923
Mrs. Newboat
Snowblind
Movie • 1921
Bella
Ladies of the Mob
Movie • 1928
Soft Annie
Twin Flappers
Movie • 1927
April Fool
Movie • 1926
Amelia Rosen
The Old Nest
Movie • 1921
Mrs. Anthon
Brown of Harvard
Movie • 1926
Mrs. Brown
The Good Bad-Man
Movie • 1916
Jane Stuart
The Hidden Woman
Movie • 1922
Mrs. Randolph
Cigar Butts
Movie • 1914
Her Mother's Daughter
Movie • 1915
Marie's Mother
Honest Hutch
Movie • 1920
Mrs. Hutchins
The Joy Girl
Movie • 1927
Mrs. Courage
One More Spring
Movie • 1935
Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
Movie • 1920
Edith Beecher Kendall
Siege
Movie • 1925
Hell's House
Movie • 1932
Lucy Mason
An Innocent Magdalene
Movie • 1916
The Woman
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Movie • 1916
Uplifter
The Sawdust Paradise
Movie • 1928
Mother
Less Than the Dust
Movie • 1916
Mrs. Bradshaw
Pillars of Society
Movie • 1916
Lona Tonnesen
Painted People
Movie • 1924
Mrs. Bryne
Home, Sweet Home
Movie • 1914
The Mother
Faint Perfume
Movie • 1925
Ma Crumb
Ghosts
Movie • 1915
Helen Alving
Girl Overboard
Movie • 1929
The Lily and the Rose
Movie • 1915
Mrs. Fairfax
The Potters
Movie • 1927
Ma Potter
The Battle of the Sexes
Movie • 1914
Mrs. Frank Andrews
The Unpardonable Sin
Movie • 1919
Mrs. Parcot
The Narrow Path
Movie • 1916
Shirley Martin
The Narrow Path
Movie • 1918
Margaret Dunn
Babbitt
Movie • 1924
Mrs. Myra Babbitt
The Happy Warrior
Movie • 1925
Aunt Maggie
The Plastic Age
Movie • 1925
Mrs. Carver
The Witching Hour
Movie • 1921
Helen Whipple
The Broken Butterfly
Movie • 1919
Zabie Elliot
The Little Country Mouse
Movie • 1914
Dorothy's Cousin
The Bad Sister
Movie • 1931
Minor Role (uncredited)
Milestones
Movie • 1920
Rose Sibley
The Unwritten Law
Movie • 1925
Miss Grant
A Woman's Woman
Movie • 1922
Densie Plummer
The Lucky Transfer
Movie • 1915
Helen Holland
Acquitted
Movie • 1916
Mrs. Carter
Hell-to-Pay Austin
Movie • 1916
Doris Valentine
Lovey Mary
Movie • 1926
Mrs. Wiggs
Parted Curtains
Movie • 1920
Mrs. Masters
Someone to Love
Movie • 1928
Harriet Newton
Under the Rouge
Movie • 1925
Martha Maynard
When a Girl Loves
Movie • 1924
The Czarina
The Empty Cradle
Movie • 1923
Alice Larkin
Soiled
Movie • 1925
Mrs. Brown
The Eagle's Feather
Movie • 1923
Delia Jamieson
Notoriety
Movie • 1922
Ann Boland
The Steadfast Heart
Movie • 1923
Mrs. Burke
Has the World Gone Mad!
Movie • 1923
Mrs. Bell
The Inferior Sex
Movie • 1920
Clarissa Mott-Smith