Cast
Mary Alden
Acting
Cast
Mary Alden
Known for
Acting
Born
1883-06-18
From
New York City, New York, USA
Died
1946-07-02
Also known as Mary Maguire Alden
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.
★9.0
MOVIE1928
The Sawdust Paradise
as Mother
★6.0
MOVIE1915
The Birth of a Nation
as Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
★9.0
MOVIE1920
Parted Curtains
as Mrs. Masters
★8.0
MOVIE1923
Pleasure Mad
as Marjorie Benton
★8.0
MOVIE1927
Twin Flappers
★7.0
MOVIE1925
Soiled
as Mrs. Brown
★7.1
MOVIE1916
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as Uplifter
★5.6
MOVIE1931
The Bad Sister
as Minor Role (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1920
Miss Nobody
as Jason's Wife
★10.0
MOVIE1924
Painted People
as Mrs. Bryne
★9.0
MOVIE1914
Cigar Butts
★9.0
MOVIE1921
Snowblind
as Bella
★10.0
MOVIE1928
Ladies of the Mob
as Soft Annie
★8.0
MOVIE1928
Someone to Love
as Harriet Newton
★9.0
MOVIE1923
Has the World Gone Mad!
as Mrs. Bell
★8.0
MOVIE1924
Babbitt
as Mrs. Myra Babbitt
MOVIE1923
The Eagle's Feather
as Delia Jamieson
★5.0
MOVIE1914
The Little Country Mouse
as Dorothy's Cousin
★10.0
MOVIE1924
When a Girl Loves
as The Czarina
★10.0
MOVIE1919
The Unpardonable Sin
as Mrs. Parcot
★8.0
MOVIE1926
The Earth Woman
as Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman)
★10.0
MOVIE1923
The Empty Cradle
as Alice Larkin
★6.2
MOVIE1916
The Good Bad-Man
as Jane Stuart
MOVIE1922
Man With Two Mothers
★6.2
MOVIE1935
One More Spring
MOVIE1916
The Narrow Path
as Shirley Martin
★5.0
MOVIE1914
Home, Sweet Home
as The Mother
★7.0
MOVIE1923
The Steadfast Heart
as Mrs. Burke
MOVIE1914
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
as Katherine Roebuck
★9.0
MOVIE1915
The Lucky Transfer
as Helen Holland
★6.2
MOVIE1925
The Plastic Age
as Mrs. Carver
★5.5
MOVIE1926
Brown of Harvard
as Mrs. Brown
MOVIE1911
A Brass Button
as Mrs. Lowden
MOVIE1914
The Battle of the Sexes
as Mrs. Frank Andrews
MOVIE1916
An Innocent Magdalene
as The Woman
★5.6
MOVIE1932
Strange Interlude
as Mary, Leeds' Maid
MOVIE1915
The Lily and the Rose
as Mrs. Fairfax
★10.0
MOVIE1920
The Inferior Sex
as Clarissa Mott-Smith
★8.0
MOVIE1920
Honest Hutch
as Mrs. Hutchins
MOVIE1916
Macbeth
as Lady Macduff
MOVIE2019
I Am Not a Racist
as The Housekeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1931
Politics
as Mary Evans
MOVIE1916
Pillars of Society
as Lona Tonnesen
★7.5
MOVIE1927
The Joy Girl
as Mrs. Courage
★7.0
MOVIE1914
Lord Chumley
as Jessie - Butterworth's Sweetheart
★10.0
MOVIE1925
The Happy Warrior
as Aunt Maggie
★8.0
MOVIE1926
Lovey Mary
as Mrs. Wiggs
MOVIE1917
The Land of Promise
as Gertie Marsh
★9.0
MOVIE1923
The Bond Boy
as Mrs. Newboat
★7.0
MOVIE1926
April Fool
as Amelia Rosen
★4.5
MOVIE1915
Ghosts
as Helen Alving
★3.0
MOVIE1916
Less Than the Dust
as Mrs. Bradshaw
★7.4
MOVIE1928
The Cossacks
as Lukashka's mother
★7.0
MOVIE1925
Faint Perfume
as Ma Crumb
★5.3
MOVIE1932
Hell's House
as Lucy Mason
★8.0
MOVIE1920
Milestones
as Rose Sibley
★7.0
MOVIE1921
The Witching Hour
as Helen Whipple
★10.0
MOVIE1914
The Quicksands
★8.0
MOVIE1920
Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
as Edith Beecher Kendall
★6.2
MOVIE1919
The Broken Butterfly
as Zabie Elliot
★10.0
MOVIE1922
Notoriety
as Ann Boland
★7.0
MOVIE1928
Fools for Luck
as Mrs. Hunter
★7.0
MOVIE1924
The Beloved Brute
as Augustina
★9.0
MOVIE1929
Girl Overboard
★10.0
MOVIE1927
The Potters
as Ma Potter
MOVIE1916
Acquitted
as Mrs. Carter
★9.0
MOVIE1922
The Hidden Woman
as Mrs. Randolph
MOVIE1918
The Naulahka
as Prince's Mother
MOVIE1915
Her Mother's Daughter
as Marie's Mother
MOVIE1915
Man's Prerogative
as Elizabeth Towne
★7.0
MOVIE1925
Under the Rouge
as Martha Maynard
★9.0
MOVIE1925
Siege
MOVIE1916
Hell-to-Pay Austin
as Doris Valentine
MOVIE1914
Another Chance
as Mrs. Mason
★8.0
MOVIE1921
The Old Nest
as Mrs. Anthon
MOVIE1922
A Woman's Woman
as Densie Plummer
★10.0
MOVIE1918
The Narrow Path
as Margaret Dunn
★9.0
MOVIE1925
The Unwritten Law
as Miss Grant
★8.0
MOVIE1919
Erstwhile Susan
as Erstwhile Susan