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.
Acting
Movie
The Birth of a Nation
as Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
1915
Movie
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as Uplifter
1916
Movie
Hell's House
as Lucy Mason
1932
Movie
The Bad Sister
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1931
Movie
Home, Sweet Home
as The Mother
1914
Movie
Brown of Harvard
as Mrs. Brown
1926
Movie
The Plastic Age
as Mrs. Carver
1925
Movie
Strange Interlude
as Mary, Leeds' Maid
1932
Movie
The Good Bad-Man
as Jane Stuart
1916
Movie
The Broken Butterfly
as Zabie Elliot
1919
Movie
The Cossacks
as Lukashka's mother
1928
Movie
Politics
as Mary Evans
1931
Movie
One More Spring
1935
Movie
Miss Nobody
as Jason's Wife
1920
Movie
The Joy Girl
as Mrs. Courage
1927
Movie
Less Than the Dust
as Mrs. Bradshaw
1916
Movie
Ghosts
as Helen Alving
1915
Movie
Erstwhile Susan
as Erstwhile Susan
1919
Movie
The Earth Woman
as Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman)
1926
Movie
Fools for Luck
as Mrs. Hunter
1928
Movie
The Quicksands
1914
Movie
The Beloved Brute
as Augustina
1924
Movie
Pleasure Mad
as Marjorie Benton
1923
Movie
Lord Chumley
as Jessie - Butterworth's Sweetheart
1914