Mary Alden
Mary Maguire Alden was an American motion picture and stage actress. She was one of the first Broadway actresses to work in Cinema of [the United States|Hollywood].
Life
Alden was born in New York City on June 18, 1883. She performed on Broadway in Personal and The Rule of Three. She worked for the Biograph Company and Pathé Exchange in the first portion of her career. Her most popular role in movies came in The Birth of a Nation directed by D.W. Griffith in 1915. Alden played the role of a mulatto woman 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 and her characterization of an old lady in The Man With Two Mothers. The latter feature was produced by Sam Goldwyn.
Alden was a prolific motion picture actress throughout the 1920s and into the early 1930s. A sampling of movies in which she had roles are The [Plastic Age (film)|The Plastic Age], The Joy Girl, Ladies of the Mob, and Port of Dreams. 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 & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California in 1946, aged 63 years. This had been her residence for the last four years of her life.
Alden was interred in an unmarked grave under her married name of Deangman in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in Hollywood, California">Cinema of the United States">Hollywood, California.
Selected filmography
The [Battle of the Sexes (1914 film)|The Battle of the Sexes] as Mrs. Frank AndrewsHome, Sweet Home as The MotherThe Old Fisherman's Story as The GypsyThe Birth of a Nation as Lydia Brown, Stoneman's HousekeeperThe Slave Girl as Sally, a Yellow GirlThe Outcast as The Girl's MotherA Man's Prerogative as Elizabeth TowneGhosts as Helen ArlingThe Lily and the Rose as Mrs. FairfaxAcquitted as Mrs. CarterThe Good Bad-Man as Jane StuartMacbeth as Lady MacduffAn Innocent Magdalene as The WomanHell-to-Pay Austin as Doris ValentinePillars of Society as Lona TonnesenThe Narrow Path as Shirley MartinIntolerance as Uplifter #1Less Than the Dust as Mrs. BradshawThe Argyle Case as Nellie MarshThe Land of Promise as Gertie MarshThe Naulahka as Prince's MotherThe Narrow Path as Margaret DunnCommon Clay as Mrs. NealThe Unpardonable Sin as Mrs. ParcotThe Mother and the Law as An UplifterThe Broken Butterfly as Zabie ElliotErstwhile Susan as Erstwhile SusanThe Inferior Sex as Clarissa Mott-SmithParted Curtains as Mrs. MastersMiss Nobody as Jason's WifeMilestones as Rose SibleyHonest Hutch as Mrs. HutchinsSilk Husbands and Calico Wives as Edith Beecher KendallTrust Your Wife The Witching Hour as Helen WhippleSnowblind as BellaThe Old Nest as Mrs. AnthonMan with Two Mothers as Widow O'NeillThe Hidden Woman as Mrs. RandolphA Woman's Woman as Densie PlummerNotoriety as Ann BolandThe Bond Boy as Mrs. NewboatHas the World Gone Mad! as Mrs. BellThe Tents of Allah as OulaidThe [Empty Cradle (film)|The Empty Cradle] as Alice LarkinThe Steadfast Heart as Mrs. BurkeThe Eagle's Feather as Delia JamiesoonPleasure Mad as Marjorie BentonPainted People as Mrs. BryneA Fool's Awakening as MyraWhen a Girl Loves as The CzarinaBabbitt as Mrs. Myra BabbittThe Beloved Brute as AugustinaSiege as Aunt Augusta RuylandFaint Perfume as Ma CrumbThe Happy Warrior as Aunt MaggieUnder the Rouge as Martha MaynardThe Unwritten Law as Miss GrantSoiled as Mrs. BrownThe Plastic Age as Mrs. CarverThe Earth Woman as Martha Tilden Brown of Harvard as Mrs. BrownLovey Mary as Mrs. WiggsApril Fool as Amelia RosenThe Potters as Ma PotterThe Joy Girl as Mrs. CourageTwin Flappers Fools for Luck as Mrs. HunterLadies of the Mob as Soft AnnieThe Cossacks as Lukashka's MotherThe Sawdust Paradise as MotherSomeone to Love as Harriet NewtonGirl Overboard Bad Sister as Minor Role Politics as Mrs. Mary EvansHell's House as Lucy Mason When a Feller Needs a Friend as Mrs. Higgins Strange Interlude as Mary, the Leeds' maidRasputin and the Empress as Natasha's Lady in Waiting One More Spring as Minor Role The Great Hotel Murder as Mrs. Harvey Gentle Julia as Aunt Legion of Terror as Accident Onlooker Career Woman as Townswoman That I May Live as Woman in Auto Camp