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

The Birth of a Nation

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Painted People

Home, Sweet Home

The Broken Butterfly

The Bad Sister

I Am Not a Racist

One More Spring

All Movies (79)

• I Am Not a Racist2019 · as The Housekeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
• One More Spring1935
• Strange Interlude1932 · as Mary, Leeds' Maid
• Hell's House1932 · as Lucy Mason
• The Bad Sister1931 · as Minor Role (uncredited)
• Politics1931 · as Mary Evans
• Girl Overboard1929
• Someone to Love1928 · as Harriet Newton
• Ladies of the Mob1928 · as Soft Annie
• The Sawdust Paradise1928 · as Mother
• The Cossacks1928 · as Lukashka's mother
• Fools for Luck1928 · as Mrs. Hunter
• Twin Flappers1927
• The Joy Girl1927 · as Mrs. Courage
• The Potters1927 · as Ma Potter
• April Fool1926 · as Amelia Rosen
• Lovey Mary1926 · as Mrs. Wiggs
• Brown of Harvard1926 · as Mrs. Brown
• The Earth Woman1926 · as Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman)
• The Plastic Age1925 · as Mrs. Carver
• Soiled1925 · as Mrs. Brown
• Under the Rouge1925 · as Martha Maynard
• Siege1925
• The Unwritten Law1925 · as Miss Grant
• The Happy Warrior1925 · as Aunt Maggie
• Faint Perfume1925 · as Ma Crumb
• The Beloved Brute1924 · as Augustina
• Babbitt1924 · as Mrs. Myra Babbitt
• When a Girl Loves1924 · as The Czarina
• Painted People1924 · as Mrs. Bryne
• Pleasure Mad1923 · as Marjorie Benton
• The Eagle's Feather1923 · as Delia Jamieson
• The Steadfast Heart1923 · as Mrs. Burke
• The Bond Boy1923 · as Mrs. Newboat
• The Empty Cradle1923 · as Alice Larkin
• Has the World Gone Mad!1923 · as Mrs. Bell
• Notoriety1922 · as Ann Boland
• A Woman's Woman1922 · as Densie Plummer
• The Hidden Woman1922 · as Mrs. Randolph
• Man With Two Mothers1922
• The Old Nest1921 · as Mrs. Anthon
• The Witching Hour1921 · as Helen Whipple
• Snowblind1921 · as Bella
• Honest Hutch1920 · as Mrs. Hutchins
• Milestones1920 · as Rose Sibley
• Miss Nobody1920 · as Jason's Wife
• Parted Curtains1920 · as Mrs. Masters
• The Inferior Sex1920 · as Clarissa Mott-Smith
• Silk Husbands and Calico Wives1920 · as Edith Beecher Kendall
• Erstwhile Susan1919 · as Erstwhile Susan
• The Broken Butterfly1919 · as Zabie Elliot
• The Unpardonable Sin1919 · as Mrs. Parcot
• The Narrow Path1918 · as Margaret Dunn
• The Naulahka1918 · as Prince's Mother
• The Land of Promise1917 · as Gertie Marsh
• Less Than the Dust1916 · as Mrs. Bradshaw
• Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages1916 · as Uplifter
• The Narrow Path1916 · as Shirley Martin
• Pillars of Society1916 · as Lona Tonnesen
• Hell-to-Pay Austin1916 · as Doris Valentine
• An Innocent Magdalene1916 · as The Woman
• Macbeth1916 · as Lady Macduff
• The Good Bad-Man1916 · as Jane Stuart
• Acquitted1916 · as Mrs. Carter
• Her Mother's Daughter1915 · as Marie's Mother
• The Lily and the Rose1915 · as Mrs. Fairfax
• Ghosts1915 · as Helen Alving
• Man's Prerogative1915 · as Elizabeth Towne
• The Lucky Transfer1915 · as Helen Holland
• The Birth of a Nation1915 · as Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
• Another Chance1914 · as Mrs. Mason
• The Little Country Mouse1914 · as Dorothy's Cousin
• The Second Mrs. Roebuck1914 · as Katherine Roebuck
• Lord Chumley1914 · as Jessie - Butterworth's Sweetheart
• Home, Sweet Home1914 · as The Mother
• The Quicksands1914
• Cigar Butts1914
• The Battle of the Sexes1914 · as Mrs. Frank Andrews
• A Brass Button1911 · as Mrs. Lowden