Acting · New York City, New York, USA · Born June 18, 1883
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.
MovieI Am Not a Racist
2019
as The Housekeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieOne More Spring
1935
MovieStrange Interlude
1932
as Mary, Leeds' Maid
MovieHell's House
1932
as Lucy Mason
MovieThe Bad Sister
1931
as Minor Role (uncredited)
MoviePolitics
1931
as Mary Evans
MovieGirl Overboard
1929
MovieSomeone to Love
1928
as Harriet Newton
MovieLadies of the Mob
1928
as Soft Annie
MovieThe Sawdust Paradise
1928
as Mother
MovieThe Cossacks
1928
as Lukashka's mother
MovieFools for Luck
1928
as Mrs. Hunter
Twin Flappers
1927
MovieThe Joy Girl
1927
as Mrs. Courage
MovieThe Potters
1927
as Ma Potter
MovieApril Fool
1926
as Amelia Rosen
MovieLovey Mary
1926
as Mrs. Wiggs
MovieBrown of Harvard
1926
as Mrs. Brown
MovieThe Earth Woman
1926
as Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman)
MovieThe Plastic Age
1925
as Mrs. Carver
MovieSoiled
1925
as Mrs. Brown
MovieUnder the Rouge
1925
as Martha Maynard
MovieSiege
1925
The Unwritten Law
1925
as Miss Grant
MovieThe Happy Warrior
1925
as Aunt Maggie
MovieFaint Perfume
1925
as Ma Crumb
MovieThe Beloved Brute
1924
as Augustina
MovieBabbitt
1924
as Mrs. Myra Babbitt
MovieWhen a Girl Loves
1924
as The Czarina
MoviePainted People
1924
as Mrs. Bryne
MoviePleasure Mad
1923
as Marjorie Benton
MovieThe Eagle's Feather
1923
as Delia Jamieson
The Steadfast Heart
1923
as Mrs. Burke
MovieThe Bond Boy
1923
as Mrs. Newboat
MovieThe Empty Cradle
1923
as Alice Larkin
MovieHas the World Gone Mad!
1923
as Mrs. Bell
MovieNotoriety
1922
as Ann Boland
MovieA Woman's Woman
1922
as Densie Plummer
MovieThe Hidden Woman
1922
as Mrs. Randolph
MovieMan With Two Mothers
1922
MovieThe Old Nest
1921
as Mrs. Anthon
MovieThe Witching Hour
1921
as Helen Whipple
MovieSnowblind
1921
as Bella
MovieHonest Hutch
1920
as Mrs. Hutchins
MovieMilestones
1920
as Rose Sibley
MovieMiss Nobody
1920
as Jason's Wife
MovieParted Curtains
1920
as Mrs. Masters
MovieThe Inferior Sex
1920
as Clarissa Mott-Smith
MovieSilk Husbands and Calico Wives
1920
as Edith Beecher Kendall
MovieErstwhile Susan
1919
as Erstwhile Susan
MovieThe Broken Butterfly
1919
as Zabie Elliot
MovieThe Unpardonable Sin
1919
as Mrs. Parcot
MovieThe Narrow Path
1918
as Margaret Dunn
MovieThe Naulahka
1918
as Prince's Mother
MovieThe Land of Promise
1917
as Gertie Marsh
MovieLess Than the Dust
1916
as Mrs. Bradshaw
MovieIntolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
as Uplifter
MovieThe Narrow Path
1916
as Shirley Martin
MoviePillars of Society
1916
as Lona Tonnesen
Hell-to-Pay Austin
1916
as Doris Valentine
MovieAn Innocent Magdalene
1916
as The Woman
MovieMacbeth
1916
as Lady Macduff
MovieThe Good Bad-Man
1916
as Jane Stuart
Acquitted
1916
as Mrs. Carter
Her Mother's Daughter
1915
as Marie's Mother
MovieThe Lily and the Rose
1915
as Mrs. Fairfax
MovieGhosts
1915
as Helen Alving
MovieMan's Prerogative
1915
as Elizabeth Towne
The Lucky Transfer
1915
as Helen Holland
MovieThe Birth of a Nation
1915
as Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Another Chance
1914
as Mrs. Mason
MovieThe Little Country Mouse
1914
as Dorothy's Cousin
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
1914
as Katherine Roebuck
Lord Chumley
1914
as Jessie - Butterworth's Sweetheart
MovieHome, Sweet Home
1914
as The Mother
The Quicksands
1914
Cigar Butts
1914
MovieThe Battle of the Sexes
1914
as Mrs. Frank Andrews
A Brass Button
1911
as Mrs. Lowden
