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.
As Actor/Actress
The Birth of a Nation
Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Uplifter
The Beloved Brute
Augustina
The Bad Sister
Minor Role (uncredited)
The Plastic Age
Mrs. Carver
A Woman's Woman
Densie Plummer
Painted People
Mrs. Bryne
Home, Sweet Home
The Mother
Someone to Love
Harriet Newton
The Sawdust Paradise
Mother
One More Spring
The Battle of the Sexes
Mrs. Frank Andrews
The Good Bad-Man
Jane Stuart
When a Girl Loves
The Czarina
Honest Hutch
Mrs. Hutchins
The Old Nest
Mrs. Anthon
Strange Interlude
Mary, Leeds' Maid
An Innocent Magdalene
The Woman
Miss Nobody
Jason's Wife
Hell's House
Lucy Mason
The Naulahka
Prince's Mother
Parted Curtains
Mrs. Masters
The Lily and the Rose
Mrs. Fairfax
The Cossacks
Lukashka's mother
The Eagle's Feather
Delia Jamieson
Brown of Harvard
Mrs. Brown
The Broken Butterfly
Zabie Elliot
Politics
Mary Evans
The Unpardonable Sin
Mrs. Parcot
I Am Not a Racist
The Housekeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)