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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 18, 1883
Died
July 2, 1946
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Mary Maguire Alden
Mary Alden
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Biography
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.
Known For
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the housekeeper
I Am Not a Racist
2019
5.8
One More Spring
1935
5.7
Mary, Leeds' Maid
Strange Interlude
1932
5.1
Lucy Mason
Hell's House
1932
5.4
Minor Role (uncredited)
The Bad Sister
1931
6.3
Mary Evans
Politics
1931
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Girl Overboard
1929
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Harriet Newton
Someone to Love
1928
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Soft Annie
Ladies of the Mob
1928
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Mother
The Sawdust Paradise
1928
Credits
I Am Not a Racist
as the housekeeper
2019
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One More Spring
1935
5.8
Strange Interlude
as Mary, Leeds' Maid
1932
5.7
Hell's House
as Lucy Mason
1932
5.1
The Bad Sister
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1931
5.4
Politics
as Mary Evans
1931
6.3
Girl Overboard
1929
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Someone to Love
as Harriet Newton
1928
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Ladies of the Mob
as Soft Annie
1928
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The Sawdust Paradise
as Mother
1928
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The Cossacks
as Lukashka's mother
1928
7.3
Fools for Luck
as Mrs. Hunter
1928
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Twin Flappers
1927
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The Joy Girl
as Mrs. Courage
1927
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The Potters
as Ma Potter
1927
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April Fool
as Amelia Rosen
1926
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Lovey Mary
as Mrs. Wiggs
1926
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Brown of Harvard
as Mrs. Brown
1926
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The Earth Woman
as Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman)
1926
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The Plastic Age
as Mrs. Carver
1925
5.9
Under the Rouge
as Martha Maynard
1925
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Siege
1925
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The Unwritten Law
as Miss Grant
1925
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The Happy Warrior
as Aunt Maggie
1925
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Faint Perfume
as Ma Crumb
1925
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The Beloved Brute
as Augustina
1924
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Babbitt
as Mrs. Myra Babbitt
1924
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When a Girl Loves
as The Czarina
1924
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Painted People
as Mrs. Bryne
1924
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Pleasure Mad
as Marjorie Benton
1923
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The Bond Boy
as Mrs. Newboat
1923
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A Woman's Woman
as Densie Plummer
1922
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The Hidden Woman
as Mrs. Randolph
1922
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The Old Nest
as Mrs. Anthon
1921
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The Witching Hour
as Helen Whipple
1921
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Snowblind
as Bella
1921
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Honest Hutch
as Mrs. Hutchins
1920
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Milestones
as Rose Sibley
1920
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Miss Nobody
as Jason's Wife
1920
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Parted Curtains
as Mrs. Masters
1920
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Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
1920
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Erstwhile Susan
as Erstwhile Susan
1919
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The Broken Butterfly
as Zabie Elliot
1919
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The Unpardonable Sin
as Mrs. Parcot
1919
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The Narrow Path
as Margaret Dunn
1918
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The Naulahka
as Prince's Mother
1918
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The Land of Promise
as Gertie Marsh
1917
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Less Than the Dust
as Mrs. Bradshaw
1916
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as Uplifter
1916
7.1
The Narrow Path
as Shirley Martin
1916
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Pillars of Society
as Lona Tonnesen
1916
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Hell-to-Pay Austin
as Doris Valentine
1916
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An Innocent Magdalene
as The Woman
1916
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The Good Bad-Man
as Jane Stuart
1916
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Acquitted
as Mrs. Carter
1916
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Macbeth
as Lady Macduff
1916
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Her Mother's Daughter
as Marie's Mother
1915
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The Lily and the Rose
as Mrs. Fairfax
1915
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Ghosts
as Helen Alving
1915
4.5
Man's Prerogative
as Elizabeth Towne
1915
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The Lucky Transfer
as Helen Holland
1915
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The Birth of a Nation
as Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
1915
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Another Chance
as Mrs. Mason
1914
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The Little Country Mouse
as Dorothy's Cousin
1914
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The Second Mrs. Roebuck
as Katherine Roebuck
1914
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Lord Chumley
as Jessie - Butterworth's Sweetheart
1914
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Home, Sweet Home
as The Mother
1914
5.3
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The Quicksands
1914
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Cigar Butts
1914
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The Battle of the Sexes
as Mrs. Frank Andrews
1914
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A Brass Button
as Mrs. Lowden
1911
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