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Mary Alden
New York City, New York, USA
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 actres…
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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.
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2019
I Am Not a Racist
Movie The Housekeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1935
One More Spring
Movie
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1932
Strange Interlude
Movie Mary, Leeds' Maid
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1932
Hell's House
Movie Lucy Mason
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1931
The Bad Sister
Movie Minor Role (uncredited)
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1931
Politics
Movie Mary Evans
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1929
Girl Overboard
Movie
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1928
Someone to Love
Movie Harriet Newton
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1928
Ladies of the Mob
Movie Soft Annie
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1928
The Sawdust Paradise
Movie Mother
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1928
The Cossacks
Movie Lukashka's mother
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1928
Fools for Luck
Movie Mrs. Hunter
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1927
Twin Flappers
Movie
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1927
The Joy Girl
Movie Mrs. Courage
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1927
The Potters
Movie Ma Potter
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1926
April Fool
Movie Amelia Rosen
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1926
Lovey Mary
Movie Mrs. Wiggs
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1926
Brown of Harvard
Movie Mrs. Brown
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1926
The Earth Woman
Movie Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman)
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1925
The Plastic Age
Movie Mrs. Carver
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1925
Soiled
Movie Mrs. Brown
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1925
Under the Rouge
Movie Martha Maynard
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1925
Siege
Movie
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1925
The Unwritten Law
Movie Miss Grant
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1925
The Happy Warrior
Movie Aunt Maggie
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1925
Faint Perfume
Movie Ma Crumb
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1924
The Beloved Brute
Movie Augustina
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1924
Babbitt
Movie Mrs. Myra Babbitt
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1924
When a Girl Loves
Movie The Czarina
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1924
Painted People
Movie Mrs. Bryne
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1923
Pleasure Mad
Movie Marjorie Benton
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1923
The Eagle's Feather
Movie Delia Jamieson
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1923
The Steadfast Heart
Movie Mrs. Burke
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1923
The Bond Boy
Movie Mrs. Newboat
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1923
The Empty Cradle
Movie Alice Larkin
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1923
Has the World Gone Mad!
Movie Mrs. Bell
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1922
Notoriety
Movie Ann Boland
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1922
A Woman's Woman
Movie Densie Plummer
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1922
The Hidden Woman
Movie Mrs. Randolph
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1922
Man With Two Mothers
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