Alice Hollister
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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.
Acted in
The Dancers
1925
as Mrs. Mayne
Married Flirts
1924
as Mrs. Callender
The Forgotten Law
1922
as Rosalie
A Wise Fool
1921
as Carmen Dolores
A Voice in the Dark
1921
as Amelia Ellingham
The Great Lover
1920
as Bianca
Milestones
1920
as Gertrude Rhead
Loaded Dice
1918
The Knife
1918
as Stella Hill
A Son of Strife
1918
as Xenia Vaskova
Her Better Self
1917
as Aggie May
The Lotus Woman
1916
as Juana
The Money Gulf
1915
as Ruth Mason
The Sign of the Broken Shackles
1915
as Irene Cross - a Tenant
The Net of Deceit
1915
as Gabrielle - an Adventuress
The Man in Hiding
1915
as Ruth - Tom's Sweetheart
The Maker of Dreams
1915
as Lorna Greene - the Daughter
The Crooked Path
1915
as Mary - an Orphan
Don Caesar de Bazan
1915
as Maritana
Honor Thy Father
1915
as Alma Fenway - Chick's Wife
The Haunting Fear
1915
as Katherine
A Sister's Burden
1915
as Martha Hensley - the Elder Daughter
The Destroyer
1915
as Cherie - a Dancer
The Siren's Reign
1915
as Grace - a Soubrette
The Stolen Ruby
1915
as Marcia Judson - an Adventuress
The Scorpion's Sting
1915
as Lyda Marston - the Daughter
The Hate That Withers
1914
as Iola Neville - a Flirt
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
1914
as Jessica Spear - an Adventuress
Her Bitter Lesson
1914
as Mrs. Evelyn Dane
The Man of Iron
1914
as Margery Stanley - the Daughter
A Midnight Tragedy
1914
as Marjory Priestman - the Wife
The Menace of Fate
1914
as Ethel WIlton - the Daughter, age 19
The False Guardian
1914
as Helen Graham - an Orphan
Seed and the Harvest
1914
as Ida McIntyre - Lawyer
Into the Depths
1914
The Devil's Dansant
1914
as Valerie Farrar - the Wife
The Hand of Fate
1914
as Florence - a Stenographer
The Barefoot Boy
1914
as Eleanor Hastings - the Mother
The Brand
1914
as Rose Hayden - a Girl of the Slums
The Storm at Sea
1914
as Jane
The Vampire's Trail
1914
as Rita Caselli - a Cabaret Singer
Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler
1914
as Mary Redding - Kit's Wife
Through the Flames
1914
as Marion Hall - Donald's Wife
The Show Girl's Glove
1914
as Stella Desmond - the Show Girl
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
1914
as Katherine Lowther
The Treasure Ship
1914
as Beth Bascom - the Daughter
A Celebrated Case
1914
The Cabaret Dancer
1914
as Martha - Don's Sweetheart
The Shadow
1914
as Jane Dean - the Daughter
Her Husband's Friend
1914
as Alice Lund - the Wife
Frayed Fagin's Adventures
1913
The Padrone's Plot
1913
as Tony's Wife
Primitive Man
1913
as Betty - a Girl of the Mountains
The Vampire
1913
as Sybil
The Hobo and the Myth
1913
The Fatal Legacy
1913
as Maud Halleck - Jack's Wife
The Bribe
1913
as Dora Malcolm
The Blind Basket Weaver
1913
as Anna - Paul's Crippled Sweetheart
A Virginia Feud
1913
as Rose McDonald
The Lost Diamond
1913
as Nancy - the Accomplice
A Stolen Identity
1913
as Mildred Anderson
The Hidden Witness
1913
as Bernice Hamilton - the Governess
Shenandoah
1913
as Mrs. Constance Haverhill
The Wheel of Death
1913
as Mary Brown - the Wife
The Terror of Conscience
1913
as Carmela - the Street Singer
A Victim of Heredity
1913
as Jane - the Thief's Daughter
Man's Greed for Gold
1913
as Mrs. Carter
The Alien
1913
as Josina - Paola's Wife
The Scimitar of the Prophet
1913
as Doris Harris - his wife
A Mississippi Tragedy
1913
The Wartime Siren
1913
as Rosalie Ashby
The Message of the Palms
1913
as Lovie Carlton - the Colonel's Daughter
The Peril of the Dance Hall
1913
as Pepita Florenti
The Prosecuting Attorney
1913
as The Attorney's Wife
A Desperate Chance
1913
as Ruth - the Telegraph Operator
A Sawmill Hazard
1913
as Alice Hollister
The Shaughraun
1912
as Moyra
Ireland, the Oppressed
1912
as Peggy
The Little Gluers
1912
as Nora Drew
From the Manger to the Cross
1912
as Mary Magdalene
The Poacher's Pardon
1912
as Dora - the Gamekeeper's Daughter
A Prisoner of the Harem
1912
as Zorah
An Arabian Tragedy
1912
as Hanifi (Slave Girl) Ayub's 2nd Wife
Dust of the Desert
1912
Driving Home the Cows
1912
The Colleen Bawn
1911
as Anne Chute
The Fiddler’s Requiem
1911
as Bridesmaid
By a Woman's Wit
1911
as Pamela