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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.687 |
Birthday | 1883-06-18 |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Mary Maguire Alden, |
1915
The Birth of a Nation
6/507
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is capture...
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The Birth of a Nation
1932
Strange Interlude
5.7/10
After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the c...
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Strange Interlude
1931
Politics
6.3/5
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
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Politics
1928
The Cossacks
7.3/6
Stirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war and chivalry. A mighty picturization of Count Leo Tolsto...
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The Cossacks
1928
Ladies of the Mob
0/0
A dead criminal's daughter falls in love with a small-time crook and tries to get him to reform before he winds up like her father.
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Ladies of the Mob
1926
April Fool
0/0
An out-of-work pants presser starts an umbrella business and makes a fortune. His daughter is set to marry the nephew of a rich neighbor until the nep...
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April Fool
1935
One More Spring
5/2
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
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One More Spring
1926
Brown of Harvard
5.8/10
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for th...
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Brown of Harvard
1916
The Good Bad Man
6.2/12
An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.
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The Good Bad Man
1927
The Joy Girl
5/1
Though she loves one man, an ambitious Palm Beach girl marries another, whom she thinks is rich. He turns out to be a fraud who thought she was an hei...
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The Joy Girl
1920
Honest Hutch
0/0
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Honest Hutch
1932
Hell's House
5.3/25
A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.
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Hell's House
1916
An Innocent Magdalene
0/0
When Dorothy's Southern, aristocratic father Colonel Raleigh refuses to let her marry Forbes Stewart, a Northern gambler, the couple elopes. When Doro...
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An Innocent Magdalene
1916
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
7.106/324
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1928
The Sawdust Paradise
0/0
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The Sawdust Paradise
1916
Less Than the Dust
3/2
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Less Than the Dust
1916
Pillars of Society
0/0
Based on Henrik Ibsen's play from 1877.
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Pillars of Society
1924
Painted People
0/0
A 1924 film directed by Clarence G. Badger.
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Painted People
1914
Home, Sweet Home
5.3/14
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Home, Sweet Home
1925
Faint Perfume
0/0
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Faint Perfume
1915
Ghosts
4.5/2
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Ghosts
1927
The Potters
0/0
Pa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?
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The Potters
1929
Girl Overboard
0/0
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Girl Overboard
1915
The Lily and the Rose
0/0
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The Lily and the Rose
1914
The Battle of the Sexes
0/0
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The Battle of the Sexes
1916
The Narrow Path
0/0
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The Narrow Path
1919
The Unpardonable Sin
0/0
Based on the Rupert Hughes novel, this film concerns the German atrocities committed in Belgium at the beginning of the Great War.
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The Unpardonable Sin
1918
The Narrow Path
0/0
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The Narrow Path
1924
Babbitt
0/0
A small-town businessman bumbles into blackmail and a real-estate swindle.
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Babbitt
1925
The Happy Warrior
0/0
Malcolm McGregor joins the circus and falls in love with Olive Borden but his life changes when he finds out he is a titled Lord.
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The Happy Warrior
1925
The Plastic Age
5.8/9
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The Plastic Age
1921
The Witching Hour
0/0
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The Witching Hour
1919
The Broken Butterfly
6.3/9
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The Broken Butterfly
1914
The Little Country Mouse
5/1
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The Little Country Mouse
1931
The Bad Sister
5.417/18
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the...
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The Bad Sister
1920
Milestones
0/0
1860 ushers in the era of iron ships, Richard Sibley, a builder of wooden ships, stubbornly resists the change, which leads him to forbid the marriage...
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Milestones
1925
The Unwritten Law
0/0
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The Unwritten Law
1922
A Woman's Woman
0/0
A woman finds herself being a unpaid skivvy to her husband, two daughters and her son.
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A Woman's Woman
1915
The Lucky Transfer
0/0
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The Lucky Transfer
1916
Acquitted
0/0
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Acquitted
1916
Hell-to-Pay Austin
0/0
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Hell-to-Pay Austin
1926
Lovey Mary
0/0
Lovely Mary, an orphan girl, reluctantly takes charge of her sister's child when her sister Kate is jailed.
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Lovey Mary
1920
Parted Curtains
0/0
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Parted Curtains
1919
Erstwhile Susan
0/0
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Erstwhile Susan
1926
The Earth Woman
0/0
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The Earth Woman
1917
The Land of Promise
0/0
Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm.
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The Land of Promise
1918
The Naulahka
0/0
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The Naulahka
1928
Fools for Luck
0/0
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Fools for Luck
1914
The Quicksands
0/0
Captain Lanning and Lieutenant Osborne are stationed at an army post in the Philippines. Lanning conceives a deadly hatred toward Osborne when the lat...
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The Quicksands
1924
The Beloved Brute
0/0
A Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a side-show wrestling match.
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The Beloved Brute
1923
Pleasure Mad
0/0
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Pleasure Mad
1914
Lord Chumley
7/1
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Lord Chumley
1920
Miss Nobody
1/1
A raft carrying a little girl and a dead woman drifts in from a shipwreck to Devil's Island. There, a band of thieves and smugglers name the girl Rose...
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Miss Nobody
1914
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
0/0
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The Second Mrs. Roebuck
1915
Man's Prerogative
0/0
Oliver and Elizabeth wed. He is a famous lawyer, careless of his personal conduct, but has implicit faith in Elizabeth. She is a woman of strong mind,...
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Man's Prerogative
1914
Another Chance
0/0
Mason, discharged from jail, promises his wife to lead a new life. While searching for work, he rescues Curly, a newsboy, from the clutches of a tramp...
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Another Chance
1916
Macbeth
0/0
Shakespeare's tragedy of the Scots nobleman whose ambition leads him to betrayal, murder, and damnation.
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Macbeth
1911
A Brass Button
0/0
Stock broker Albert Lowden is in danger of losing his business if he can't soon pay his creditors.
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A Brass Button
1923
The Bond Boy
0/0
For the sake of his impoverished mother, Joe Newbolt bonds himself to harsh Isom Chase. Ollie Chase tires of the difficult life her husband has forced...
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The Bond Boy
1921
Snowblind
0/0
Hugh Garth hides from the law in the frozen Canadian northwest along with his young brother Pete and Pete's former nurse, Bella, who loves Hugh unrequ...
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Snowblind
1927
Twin Flappers
0/0
Twin Flappers is a 1927 silent film.
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Twin Flappers
1921
The Old Nest
0/0
A mother raises her six children and one by one lets them go out into the world. Their failures and successes fill her life, but she grows lonely with...
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The Old Nest
1914
Cigar Butts
0/0
Short film telling the story of diamond smuggling.
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Cigar Butts
1915
Her Mother's Daughter
0/0
Marie is a village girl, very religious. Her mother, fearing some man will make her unhappy (as she had been made by a man) made her promise on her de...
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Her Mother's Daughter
1925
Siege
0/0
A stern old woman, who owns the largest factory in a small town and has ruled both the factory and the town with an iron hand, finds herself battling...
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Siege
I Am Not a Racist
0/0
A parody of D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation", "I Am Not a Racist" rearranges the scenes of the classic movie and recreates its dialogues to cr...
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I Am Not a Racist
1922
The Hidden Woman
0/0
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The Hidden Woman
1920
Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
0/0
After small-town attorney Deane Kendall wins an important case, a prestigious law firm lures him to the city. Accompanying him is his wife Edith, who...
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