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Seena Owen
Spokane, Washington, USA
From Wikipedia Seena Owen (November 14, 1894 – August 15, 1966) was a Danish-American silent film actress. Born Signe Auen at Spokane, Washington, the youngest of three children…
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From Wikipedia Seena Owen (November 14, 1894 – August 15, 1966) was a Danish-American silent film actress. Born Signe Auen at Spokane, Washington, the youngest of three children raised by Jens Christensen and Karen (née Sorensen) Auen. Her father and mother came from Denmark in the late 1880s and settled in Minnesota where they married in 1888. Within a short period of time they relocated to Portland and then Spokane, where her father became proprietor of the Columbia Pharmacy. Her first important film was A Yankee From the West (1915) under the name Signe Auen at the age of 21. She was later convinced to change her name and settled on Seena Owen, the phonetic spelling of her real name. In 1916 she performed in D. W. Griffith's Intolerance. The same year she married George Walsh whom she had met on the set of Intolerance. The marriage lasted until their divorce in 1924. A regular player for the rest of the silent era, Owen appeared in films such as Maurice Tourneur's Victory in 1919 where she was photographed to great effect by Tourneur's cameraman, Rene Guissart. In 1920, she appeared in "The Gift Supreme" with Lon Chaney, who appeared with her in Victory. She co-starred with Gloria Swanson and Walter Byron in the ill-fated Queen Kelly (1928), as the mad Queen who whips Swanson in one scene. With the arrival of sound in movies, Owen's weak voice became a problem and forced her to retire from the silver screen in 1933. After her retirement, she worked on a number of films in the 1930s/40s as a screenwriter including two starring Dorothy Lamour: Aloma of the South Seas and Rainbow Island, both in 1941. The former was written in part with her sister, Lillie Hayward, a successful Hollywood screenwriter, Seena Owen died on August 15, 1966 at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, aged 71, and was interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
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1947
Carnegie Hall
Movie Story
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1941
The Great Man's Lady
Movie Story
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1941
Aloma of the South Seas
Movie Writer
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1937
Thrill of a Lifetime
Movie Screenplay
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1937
This Way Please
Movie Screenplay
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1937
Clarence
Movie Screenplay
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1932
Officer Thirteen
Movie Trixi Du Bray
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1929
Queen Kelly
Movie Queen Regina V
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1929
The Marriage Playground
Movie Rose Sellers
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1928
His Last Haul
Movie Blanche
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1928
Sinners in Love
Movie Yvonne D'Orsy
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1928
Man-Made Women
Movie Georgette
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1928
The Blue Danube
Movie Helena Boursch
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1927
The Rush Hour
Movie Yvonne Dorée
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1926
The Flame of the Yukon
Movie The Flame
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1926
Shipwrecked
Movie Lois Austin
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1925
Faint Perfume
Movie Richmiel Crumb
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1925
The Hunted Woman
Movie Joanne Gray
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1924
I Am the Man
Movie Julia Calvert
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1924
For Woman's Favor
Movie June Paige
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1924
The Great Well
Movie Camilla Challenor
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1923
Unseeing Eyes
Movie Miriam Helston
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1923
The Leavenworth Case
Movie Eleanor Leavenworth
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1923
The Go-Getter
Movie Mary Skinner
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1922
The Face in the Fog
Movie Grand Duchess Tatiana
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1922
Sisters
Movie Alix Strickland
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1922
Back Pay
Movie Hester Bevins
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1921
The Woman God Changed
Movie Anna Janssen
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1921
Lavender and Old Lace
Movie Ruth Thorne
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1921
The Cheater Reformed
Movie Carol McCall
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1920
The Price of Redemption
Movie Jean Dering
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1920
The Gift Supreme
Movie Sylvia Alden
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1920
Sooner or Later
Movie Edna Ellis
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1919
Victory
Movie Alma
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1919
A Fugitive from Matrimony
Movie Barbara Riggs
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1919
The Life Line
Movie Laura
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1919
The Fall of Babylon
Movie Attarea
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1919
The City of Comrades
Movie Regina Barry
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1919
Riders of Vengeance
Movie The Girl
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1919
One of the Finest
Movie Frances Hudson
