Mary Alden
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Mary Alden (June 18, 1883 - July 2, 1946) was a motion picture actress and performer on the Broadway stage from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her full name was Mary Maguire Alden. She spent five years on the Broadway stage before coming to California. She was one of the first Broadway actresses to work in Hollywood.
[edit] Actress In Important Pre-Sound Motion Pictures
Mary worked for Biograph, Pathé, and Freres and Fine Arts 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. Mary 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, Miss Alden took a temporary leave from motion pictures, acting for a while on the stage. Critics acclaimed Mary'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.
[edit] Career With Longevity
Miss 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.
Mary Alden died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, California in 1946. This had been her residence for the last four years of her life. She was 63 years of age. Alden was interred at the Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California, USA.
[edit] References
- The Los Angeles Times, Mary Alden, Actress, Dies, July 4, 1946.
- Oakland, California Tribune,Mary Alden To Give Up Roles On Which Fame Rests, Sunday Morning, October 9, 1921, Page W-3.
- Sandusky, Ohio Star Journal, News Notes From Movieland, January 2, 1917, Page 4.
- Mary Alden at Find-A-Grave
