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Alice Hollister
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
From Wikipedia Alice Hollister (September 28, 1886 – February 24, 1973) was an American silent film actress who appeared in 85 films between 1911 and 1925. Born in Worcester, Ma…
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From Wikipedia Alice Hollister (September 28, 1886 – February 24, 1973) was an American silent film actress who appeared in 85 films between 1911 and 1925. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, she is believed to have been the daughter of French-Canadian immigrants. In 1903, at age seventeen, she married George K. Hollister who a few years later became a pioneer cinematographer with Kalem Studios in New York City. They had a daughter, Doris Ethel, born in 1906, and George Jr., born in 1908. When Kalem Studios began sending a film crew to Florida in the wintertime, Alice Hollister accompanied her husband. She began appearing in film in 1911, at first because of the small crew and the frequent need for a female in a bit part. However, she liked acting and went on to appear in many films, the last in 1925. One of Hollister's most important roles was that of Mary Magdalene in the film From the Manger to the Cross (1912). Filmed on location in Palestine, this film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The Vampire (1913) made her the first recognized vamp in cinema, predating Theda Bara in A Fool There Was (1915). For that role, she was dubbed "the original vampire". She reprised the character in The Vampire's Trail (1914) and The Lotus Woman (1916), her last film for Kalem. Alice Hollister's husband died in 1952 and she died in 1973, aged 86, in Costa Mesa, California. They are interred together in the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Solace at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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1925
The Dancers
Movie Mrs. Mayne
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1924
Married Flirts
Movie Mrs. Callender
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1922
The Forgotten Law
Movie Rosalie
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1921
A Wise Fool
Movie Carmen Dolores
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1921
A Voice in the Dark
Movie Amelia Ellingham
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1920
The Great Lover
Movie Bianca
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1920
Milestones
Movie Gertrude Rhead
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1918
Loaded Dice
Movie
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1918
The Knife
Movie Stella Hill
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1918
A Son of Strife
Movie Xenia Vaskova
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1917
Her Better Self
Movie Aggie May
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1916
The Lotus Woman
Movie Juana
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1915
The Money Gulf
Movie Ruth Mason
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1915
The Sign of the Broken Shackles
Movie Irene Cross - a Tenant
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1915
The Net of Deceit
Movie Gabrielle - an Adventuress
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1915
The Man in Hiding
Movie Ruth - Tom's Sweetheart
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1915
The Maker of Dreams
Movie Lorna Greene - the Daughter
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1915
The Crooked Path
Movie Mary - an Orphan
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1915
Don Caesar de Bazan
Movie Maritana
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1915
Honor Thy Father
Movie Alma Fenway - Chick's Wife
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1915
The Haunting Fear
Movie Katherine
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1915
A Sister's Burden
Movie Martha Hensley - the Elder Daughter
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1915
The Destroyer
Movie Cherie - a Dancer
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1915
The Siren's Reign
Movie Grace - a Soubrette
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1915
The Stolen Ruby
Movie Marcia Judson - an Adventuress
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1915
The Scorpion's Sting
Movie Lyda Marston - the Daughter
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1914
The Hate That Withers
Movie Iola Neville - a Flirt
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1914
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
Movie Jessica Spear - an Adventuress
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1914
Her Bitter Lesson
Movie Mrs. Evelyn Dane
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1914
The Man of Iron
Movie Margery Stanley - the Daughter
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1914
A Midnight Tragedy
Movie Marjory Priestman - the Wife
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1914
The Menace of Fate
Movie Ethel WIlton - the Daughter, age 19
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1914
The False Guardian
Movie Helen Graham - an Orphan
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1914
Seed and the Harvest
Movie Ida McIntyre - Lawyer
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1914
Into the Depths
Movie
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1914
The Devil's Dansant
Movie Valerie Farrar - the Wife
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1914
The Hand of Fate
Movie Florence - a Stenographer
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1914
The Barefoot Boy
Movie Eleanor Hastings - the Mother
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1914
The Brand
Movie Rose Hayden - a Girl of the Slums
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1914
The Storm at Sea
Movie Jane
