Mary Alden
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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.
Acted in
I Am Not a Racist
2019
as the housekeeper
One More Spring
1935
Strange Interlude
1932
as Mary, Leeds' Maid
Hell's House
1932
as Lucy Mason
The Bad Sister
1931
as Minor Role (uncredited)
Politics
1931
as Mary Evans
Girl Overboard
1929
Someone to Love
1928
as Harriet Newton
Ladies of the Mob
1928
as Soft Annie
The Sawdust Paradise
1928
as Mother
The Cossacks
1928
as Lukashka's mother
Fools for Luck
1928
as Mrs. Hunter
Twin Flappers
1927
The Joy Girl
1927
as Mrs. Courage
The Potters
1927
as Ma Potter
April Fool
1926
as Amelia Rosen
Lovey Mary
1926
as Mrs. Wiggs
Brown of Harvard
1926
as Mrs. Brown
The Earth Woman
1926
as Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman)
The Plastic Age
1925
as Mrs. Carver
Under the Rouge
1925
as Martha Maynard
Siege
1925
The Unwritten Law
1925
as Miss Grant
The Happy Warrior
1925
as Aunt Maggie
Faint Perfume
1925
as Ma Crumb
The Beloved Brute
1924
as Augustina
Babbitt
1924
as Mrs. Myra Babbitt
Painted People
1924
as Mrs. Bryne
Pleasure Mad
1923
as Marjorie Benton
The Bond Boy
1923
as Mrs. Newboat
A Woman's Woman
1922
as Densie Plummer
The Hidden Woman
1922
as Mrs. Randolph
The Old Nest
1921
as Mrs. Anthon
The Witching Hour
1921
as Helen Whipple
Snowblind
1921
as Bella
Honest Hutch
1920
as Mrs. Hutchins
Milestones
1920
as Rose Sibley
Miss Nobody
1920
as Jason's Wife
Parted Curtains
1920
as Mrs. Masters
Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
1920
Erstwhile Susan
1919
as Erstwhile Susan
The Broken Butterfly
1919
as Zabie Elliot
The Unpardonable Sin
1919
as Mrs. Parcot
The Narrow Path
1918
as Margaret Dunn
The Naulahka
1918
as Prince's Mother
The Land of Promise
1917
as Gertie Marsh
Less Than the Dust
1916
as Mrs. Bradshaw
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
as Uplifter
The Narrow Path
1916
as Shirley Martin
Pillars of Society
1916
as Lona Tonnesen
Hell-to-Pay Austin
1916
as Doris Valentine
An Innocent Magdalene
1916
as The Woman
The Good Bad-Man
1916
as Jane Stuart
Acquitted
1916
as Mrs. Carter
Macbeth
1916
as Lady Macduff
Her Mother's Daughter
1915
as Marie's Mother
The Lily and the Rose
1915
as Mrs. Fairfax
Ghosts
1915
as Helen Alving
Man's Prerogative
1915
as Elizabeth Towne
The Lucky Transfer
1915
as Helen Holland
The Birth of a Nation
1915
as Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Another Chance
1914
as Mrs. Mason
The Little Country Mouse
1914
as Dorothy's Cousin
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
1914
as Katherine Roebuck
Lord Chumley
1914
as Jessie - Butterworth's Sweetheart
Home, Sweet Home
1914
as The Mother
The Quicksands
1914
Cigar Butts
1914
The Battle of the Sexes
1914
as Mrs. Frank Andrews
A Brass Button
1911
as Mrs. Lowden