Mary Alden
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 18, 1883, New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- July 2, 1946
- Movies
- 80
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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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2019 | I Am Not a Racist | The Housekeeper (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1935 | One More Spring | |
| 1932 | Strange Interlude | Mary, Leeds' Maid |
| 1932 | Hell's House | Lucy Mason |
| 1931 | The Bad Sister | Minor Role (uncredited) |
| 1931 | Politics | Mary Evans |
| 1929 | Girl Overboard | |
| 1928 | Someone to Love | Harriet Newton |
| 1928 | Ladies of the Mob | Soft Annie |
| 1928 | The Sawdust Paradise | Mother |
| 1928 | The Cossacks | Lukashka's mother |
| 1928 | Fools for Luck | Mrs. Hunter |
| 1927 | Twin Flappers | |
| 1927 | The Joy Girl | Mrs. Courage |
| 1927 | The Potters | Ma Potter |
| 1926 | April Fool | Amelia Rosen |
| 1926 | Lovey Mary | Mrs. Wiggs |
| 1926 | Brown of Harvard | Mrs. Brown |
| 1926 | The Earth Woman | Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman) |
| 1925 | The Plastic Age | Mrs. Carver |
| 1925 | Soiled | Mrs. Brown |
| 1925 | Under the Rouge | Martha Maynard |
| 1925 | Siege | |
| 1925 | The Unwritten Law | Miss Grant |
| 1925 | The Happy Warrior | Aunt Maggie |
| 1925 | Faint Perfume | Ma Crumb |
| 1924 | The Beloved Brute | Augustina |
| 1924 | Babbitt | Mrs. Myra Babbitt |
| 1924 | When a Girl Loves | The Czarina |
| 1924 | Painted People | Mrs. Bryne |
| 1923 | Pleasure Mad | Marjorie Benton |
| 1923 | The Eagle's Feather | Delia Jamieson |
| 1923 | The Steadfast Heart | Mrs. Burke |
| 1923 | The Bond Boy | Mrs. Newboat |
| 1923 | The Empty Cradle | Alice Larkin |
| 1923 | Has the World Gone Mad! | Mrs. Bell |
| 1922 | Notoriety | Ann Boland |
| 1922 | A Woman's Woman | Densie Plummer |
| 1922 | The Hidden Woman | Mrs. Randolph |
| 1922 | Man With Two Mothers | |
| 1921 | The Old Nest | Mrs. Anthon |
| 1921 | The Witching Hour | Helen Whipple |
| 1921 | Snowblind | Bella |
| 1920 | Honest Hutch | Mrs. Hutchins |
| 1920 | Milestones | Rose Sibley |
| 1920 | Miss Nobody | Jason's Wife |
| 1920 | Parted Curtains | Mrs. Masters |
| 1920 | The Inferior Sex | Clarissa Mott-Smith |
| 1920 | Silk Husbands and Calico Wives | Edith Beecher Kendall |
| 1919 | Erstwhile Susan | Erstwhile Susan |
| 1919 | The Broken Butterfly | Zabie Elliot |
| 1919 | The Unpardonable Sin | Mrs. Parcot |
| 1918 | The Narrow Path | Margaret Dunn |
| 1918 | The Naulahka | Prince's Mother |
| 1917 | The Land of Promise | Gertie Marsh |
| 1917 | The Argyle Case | Nellie Marsh |
| 1916 | Less Than the Dust | Mrs. Bradshaw |
| 1916 | Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages | Uplifter |
| 1916 | The Narrow Path | Shirley Martin |
| 1916 | Pillars of Society | Lona Tonnesen |
| 1916 | Hell-to-Pay Austin | Doris Valentine |
| 1916 | An Innocent Magdalene | The Woman |
| 1916 | Macbeth | Lady Macduff |
| 1916 | The Good Bad-Man | Jane Stuart |
| 1916 | Acquitted | Mrs. Carter |
| 1915 | Her Mother's Daughter | Marie's Mother |
| 1915 | The Lily and the Rose | Mrs. Fairfax |
| 1915 | Ghosts | Helen Alving |
| 1915 | Man's Prerogative | Elizabeth Towne |
| 1915 | The Lucky Transfer | Helen Holland |
| 1915 | The Birth of a Nation | Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia |
| 1914 | Another Chance | Mrs. Mason |
| 1914 | The Little Country Mouse | Dorothy's Cousin |
| 1914 | The Second Mrs. Roebuck | Katherine Roebuck |
| 1914 | Lord Chumley | Jessie - Butterworth's Sweetheart |
| 1914 | Home, Sweet Home | The Mother |
| 1914 | The Quicksands | |
| 1914 | Cigar Butts | |
| 1914 | The Battle of the Sexes | Mrs. Frank Andrews |
| 1911 | A Brass Button | Mrs. Lowden |
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