Alice Calhoun

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Alice Calhoun (November 21, 1900 - June 3, 1966) was an American silent film actress.

Born Alice Beatrice Calhoun in Cleveland, Ohio, she made her film debut in 1918 and went on to appear in another forty-seven films between then and 1929. Like a number of other stars at the time, her voice did not lend itself to sound and her one performance in a talkie came in an uncredited role in 1934. However, in 1925 Calhoun had invested in a movie theater and along with her second husband Max Chotiner, whom she married on December 28, 1926, she became owner of a chain of theatres in the Los Angeles area. Highly successful, Calhoun and her husband were benefactors to a number of local charities.

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Alice Calhoun has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6815 Hollywood Blvd.

Alice Calhoun died in Los Angeles in 1966 of cancer, aged 65, and is interred with her husband in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.