Mary Alden

Mary Alden
Born	Mary Maguire Alden June 18, 1883(1883-06-18) New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	July 2, 1946(1946-07-02) (aged 63) Woodland Hills, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1913–1937

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.

Career

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 Biograph, Pathé, and Freres and Fine Arts 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.

Death

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. Alden was interred at the Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California.

Selected Filmography

• The Birth of a Nation (1915)
• Intolerance (1916)
• Erstwhile Susan (1919)
• The Plastic Age (1925)
• Brown of Harvard (1926)
• Lovey Mary (1926)
• The Joy Girl (1927)
• Ladies of the Mob (1928)

References

• The Los Angeles Times, "Mary Alden, Actress, Dies", July 4, 1946.
• Oakland, California Tribune, "Mary Alden To Give Up Roles On Which Fame Rests", Sunday Morning, October 9, 1921, Page W-3.
• Sandusky, Ohio Star Journal, "News Notes From Movieland", January 2, 1917, Page 4.

External links

Biography portal

• Mary Alden at the Internet Movie Database
• Mary Alden at the Internet Broadway Database
• Mary Alden at AllRovi
• Mary Alden at Find a Grave
• Literature on Mary Alden

Persondata
Name	Alden, Mary
Alternative names	Alden, Mary Maguire
Short description	Actress
Date of birth	June 18, 1883
Place of birth	New York, New York USA
Date of death	July 2, 1946
Place of death	Los Angeles, California USA