Alice Hollister
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Alice Hollister (September 28, 1886 – February 24, 1973) was an American silent film actress who appeared in 85 films between 1911 and 1925.
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, she is believed to have been the daughter of French-Canadian immigrants. In 1903, at age seventeen, she married George K. Hollister who a few years later became a pioneer cinematographer with Kalem Studios in New York City. They had a daughter, Doris Ethel, born in 1906, and George Jr., born in 1908.
When Kalem Studios began sending a film crew to Florida in the wintertime, Alice Hollister accompanied her husband. She began appearing in film in 1911, at first because of the small crew and the frequent need for a female in a bit part. However, she liked acting and went on to appear in many films, the last in 1925.
One of Hollister's most important roles was that of Mary Magdalene in the film From the Manger to the Cross (1912). Filmed on location in Palestine, this film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
The Vampire (1913) made her the first recognized vamp in cinema, predating Theda Bara in A Fool There Was (1915). For that role, she was dubbed "the original vampire". She reprised the character in The Vampire's Trail (1914) and The Lotus Woman (1916), her last film for Kalem.
Alice Hollister's husband died in 1952 and she died in 1973, aged 86, in Costa Mesa, California. They are interred together in the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Solace at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Acting
Movie
From the Manger to the Cross
as Mary Magdalene
1912
Movie
The Colleen Bawn
as Anne Chute
1911
Movie
The Forgotten Law
as Rosalie
1922
Movie
By a Woman's Wit
as Pamela
1911
Movie
The Vampire
as Sybil
1913
Movie
The Dancers
as Mrs. Mayne
1925
Movie
Married Flirts
as Mrs. Callender
1924
Movie
The Terror of Conscience
as Carmela - the Street Singer
1913
Movie
A Victim of Heredity
as Jane - the Thief's Daughter
1913
Movie
The Wheel of Death
as Mary Brown - the Wife
1913
Movie
Shenandoah
as Mrs. Constance Haverhill
1913
Movie
The Hidden Witness
as Bernice Hamilton - the Governess
1913
Movie
The Blind Basket Weaver
as Anna - Paul's Crippled Sweetheart
1913
Movie
The Fatal Legacy
as Maud Halleck - Jack's Wife
1913
Movie
The Hobo and the Myth
1913
Movie
Her Husband's Friend
as Alice Lund - the Wife
1914
Movie
The Show Girl's Glove
as Stella Desmond - the Show Girl
1914
Movie
Through the Flames
as Marion Hall - Donald's Wife
1914
Movie
Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler
as Mary Redding - Kit's Wife
1914
Movie
The Hand of Fate
as Florence - a Stenographer
1914
Movie
The Devil's Dansant
as Valerie Farrar - the Wife
1914
Movie
The Poacher's Pardon
as Dora - the Gamekeeper's Daughter
1912
Movie
An Arabian Tragedy
as Hanifi (Slave Girl) Ayub's 2nd Wife
1912
Movie
A Prisoner of the Harem
as Zorah
1912