Mary Alden

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

Born: New York City, New York, USA, 1883-06-18

Died: 1946-07-02

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1911	A Brass Button	Mrs. Lowden	0
2	1914	The Battle of the Sexes	Mrs. Frank Andrews	0
3	1914	Cigar Butts		0
4	1914	The Quicksands		0
5	1914	Home, Sweet Home	The Mother	53
6	1914	Lord Chumley	Jessie - Butterworth's Sweetheart	70
7	1914	The Second Mrs. Roebuck	Katherine Roebuck	0
8	1914	The Little Country Mouse	Dorothy's Cousin	50
9	1914	Another Chance	Mrs. Mason	0
10	1915	The Birth of a Nation	Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia	60
11	1915	The Lucky Transfer	Helen Holland	0
12	1915	Man's Prerogative	Elizabeth Towne	0
13	1915	Ghosts	Helen Alving	45
14	1915	The Lily and the Rose	Mrs. Fairfax	0
15	1915	Her Mother's Daughter	Marie's Mother	0
16	1916	Macbeth	Lady Macduff	0
17	1916	Acquitted	Mrs. Carter	0
18	1916	The Good Bad-Man	Jane Stuart	63
19	1916	An Innocent Magdalene	The Woman	0
20	1916	Hell-to-Pay Austin	Doris Valentine	0
21	1916	Pillars of Society	Lona Tonnesen	0
22	1916	The Narrow Path	Shirley Martin	0
23	1916	Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages	Uplifter	71
24	1916	Less Than the Dust	Mrs. Bradshaw	30
25	1917	The Land of Promise	Gertie Marsh	0
26	1918	The Naulahka	Prince's Mother	0
27	1918	The Narrow Path	Margaret Dunn	0
28	1919	The Unpardonable Sin	Mrs. Parcot	0
29	1919	The Broken Butterfly	Zabie Elliot	63
30	1919	Erstwhile Susan	Erstwhile Susan	0
31	1920	Silk Husbands and Calico Wives		0
32	1920	Parted Curtains	Mrs. Masters	0
33	1920	Miss Nobody	Jason's Wife	10
34	1920	Milestones	Rose Sibley	0
35	1920	Honest Hutch	Mrs. Hutchins	0
36	1921	Snowblind	Bella	0
37	1921	The Witching Hour	Helen Whipple	0
38	1921	The Old Nest	Mrs. Anthon	0
39	1922	The Hidden Woman	Mrs. Randolph	0
40	1922	A Woman's Woman	Densie Plummer	0
41	1923	The Bond Boy	Mrs. Newboat	0
42	1923	Pleasure Mad	Marjorie Benton	0
43	1924	Painted People	Mrs. Bryne	0
44	1924	When a Girl Loves	The Czarina	0
45	1924	Babbitt	Mrs. Myra Babbitt	0
46	1924	The Beloved Brute	Augustina	0
47	1925	Faint Perfume	Ma Crumb	0
48	1925	The Happy Warrior	Aunt Maggie	0
49	1925	The Unwritten Law	Miss Grant	0
50	1925	Siege		0
51	1925	Under the Rouge	Martha Maynard	0
52	1925	The Plastic Age	Mrs. Carver	59
53	1926	The Earth Woman	Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman)	0
54	1926	Brown of Harvard	Mrs. Brown	56
55	1926	Lovey Mary	Mrs. Wiggs	0
56	1926	April Fool	Amelia Rosen	0
57	1927	The Potters	Ma Potter	0
58	1927	The Joy Girl	Mrs. Courage	50
59	1927	Twin Flappers		0
60	1928	Fools for Luck	Mrs. Hunter	0
61	1928	The Cossacks	Lukashka's mother	73
62	1928	The Sawdust Paradise	Mother	0
63	1928	Ladies of the Mob	Soft Annie	0
64	1928	Someone to Love	Harriet Newton	0
65	1929	Girl Overboard		0
66	1931	Politics	Mary Evans	63
67	1931	The Bad Sister	Minor Role (uncredited)	54
68	1932	Hell's House	Lucy Mason	51
69	1932	Strange Interlude	Mary, Leeds' Maid	57
70	1935	One More Spring		58
71	2019	I Am Not a Racist	the housekeeper	0

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1911