Mary McGuire Alden ( born Mary Maguire Alden ; June 18, 1883 - July 2, 1946) is an American silent film and theater actress. She was one of the first Broadway actresses who began working in Hollywood [4] .
| Mary alden | |
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| English Mary alden | |
 Mary Alden, 1920 | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | New York , New York , USA |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Woodland Hills , California , USA |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Profession | actress |
| Career | 1913-1937 |
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Biography
Born in New York on June 18, 1883. She began her career on the Broadway stage, where she spent the first five years before moving to Hollywood. There she signed contracts with film companies such as Mutoscope and Bayograph and Pathé Exchange . Her most popular role was in the 1915 Griffith film Birth of a Nation . There, she played the role of a mulatto who was in love with a northerner politician. The following year, she, along with May Marsh , Miriam Cooper and Vera Lewis, starred in the movie Intolerance , where she played the role of Griffith. In 1917, after she starred in the movie Less Dust with Mary Pickford , Alden took a temporary break from his film career. Critics well praised such roles of the actress as Mrs. Anton in the film “The Old Nest” (1921) and the characteristic role of the old woman in “The Man with Two Mothers” (1922) [5] . The producer of the last film was Samuel Goldwin .
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Alden continued to act in films. During this period she starred in the following films: “Plastic Age” (1925), “Joyful Girl” (1927), “ Lady of the Mafia ” (1928) and “Port of Dreams” (1929). One of the last films with her participation was “The House of Hell ”, “ Rasputin and the Empress ” and “The Strange Interlude ”. All these films were shot in 1932.
She died in 1946 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills . There she lived the last four years of her life. She was 63 years old [4] . She was buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery cemetery in North Hollywood , California .
Selected Filmography
- Birth of a nation (1915)
- Slave (1915)
- Ghosts (1915)
- Lily and Rose (1915)
- Macbeth (1916)
- Intolerance (1916)
- Justification (1916)
- Good bad man (1916)
- Promised Land (1917)
- Jealous Susan (1919)
- Unforgivable Sin (1919)
- Silk husbands and chintz wives (1920)
- Hidden Woman (1922)
- Steady Heart (1923)
- The Pleasure of Evil (1923)
- Plastic Age (1925)
- Harvard Brown (1926)
- In love Mary (1926)
- Dugout (1926)
- April 1 (1926)
- Potters (1927)
- Joyful Girl (1927)
- The Mafia Lady (1928)
- Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
- The Great Murder at Hotel (1935)
- Tender Julia (1936)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Internet Broadway Database - 2000.
- ↑ 1 2 Find a Grave - 1995. - ed. size: 165000000
- ↑ 1 2 Mary Alden, Actress, Dies (July 4, 1946).
- ↑ Silent Film Necrology
Literature
- Oakland, California Tribune , Mary Alden To Give Up Roles On Which Fame Rests, Sunday Morning, October 9, 1921, Page W-3.
- Sandusky, Ohio Star Journal , News Notes From Movieland, January 2, 1917, Page 4.