Mary Alden
Born
June 18, 1883
Died
July 2, 1946 (63 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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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
I Am Not a Racist
the housekeeper
2019
One More Spring
1935
Strange Interlude
Mary, Leeds' Maid
1932
Hell's House
Lucy Mason
1932
The Bad Sister
Minor Role (uncredited)
1931
Politics
Mary Evans
1931
Girl Overboard
1929
Someone to Love
Harriet Newton
1928
Ladies of the Mob
Soft Annie
1928
The Sawdust Paradise
Mother
1928
The Cossacks
Lukashka's mother
1928
Fools for Luck
Mrs. Hunter
1928
Twin Flappers
1927
The Joy Girl
Mrs. Courage
1927
The Potters
Ma Potter
1927
April Fool
Amelia Rosen
1926
Lovey Mary
Mrs. Wiggs
1926
Brown of Harvard
Mrs. Brown
1926
The Earth Woman
Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman)
1926
The Plastic Age
Mrs. Carver
1925
Under the Rouge
Martha Maynard
1925
Siege
1925
The Unwritten Law
Miss Grant
1925
The Happy Warrior
Aunt Maggie
1925
Faint Perfume
Ma Crumb
1925
The Beloved Brute
Augustina
1924
Babbitt
Mrs. Myra Babbitt
1924
When a Girl Loves
The Czarina
1924
Painted People
Mrs. Bryne
1924
Pleasure Mad
Marjorie Benton
1923
The Bond Boy
Mrs. Newboat
1923
A Woman's Woman
Densie Plummer
1922
The Hidden Woman
Mrs. Randolph
1922
The Old Nest
Mrs. Anthon
1921
The Witching Hour
Helen Whipple
1921
Snowblind
Bella
1921
Honest Hutch
Mrs. Hutchins
1920
Milestones
Rose Sibley
1920
Miss Nobody
Jason's Wife
1920
Parted Curtains
Mrs. Masters
1920
Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
1920
Erstwhile Susan
Erstwhile Susan
1919
The Broken Butterfly
Zabie Elliot
1919
The Unpardonable Sin
Mrs. Parcot
1919
The Narrow Path
Margaret Dunn
1918
The Naulahka
Prince's Mother
1918
The Land of Promise
Gertie Marsh
1917
Less Than the Dust
Mrs. Bradshaw
1916
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Uplifter
1916
The Narrow Path
Shirley Martin
1916
Pillars of Society
Lona Tonnesen
1916
Hell-to-Pay Austin
Doris Valentine
1916
An Innocent Magdalene
The Woman
1916
The Good Bad-Man
Jane Stuart
1916
Acquitted
Mrs. Carter
1916
Macbeth
Lady Macduff
1916
Her Mother's Daughter
Marie's Mother
1915
The Lily and the Rose
Mrs. Fairfax
1915
Ghosts
Helen Alving
1915
Man's Prerogative
Elizabeth Towne
1915
The Lucky Transfer
Helen Holland
1915
The Birth of a Nation
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
1915
Another Chance
Mrs. Mason
1914
The Little Country Mouse
Dorothy's Cousin
1914
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
Katherine Roebuck
1914
Lord Chumley
Jessie - Butterworth's Sweetheart
1914
Home, Sweet Home
The Mother
1914
The Quicksands
1914
Cigar Butts
1914
The Battle of the Sexes
Mrs. Frank Andrews
1914
A Brass Button
Mrs. Lowden
1911