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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.
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14 February 1918
Trying to win the Three C's railroad line for his home town of Topaz, Colorado, Nicholas "Nick" Tarvin journeys to India to secure the famed jewel known as the Naulahka, which he plans to present to Mrs.
01 May 1914
Captain Lanning and Lieutenant Osborne are stationed at an army post in the Philippines. Lanning conceives a deadly hatred toward Osborne when the latter wins Gladys, General Fields' daughter.
08 June 1925
After a stormy six year marriage, Barnaby Powers divorces his wife Richmiel. She returns home, taking their young son Oliver with her.
24 November 1914
Mason, discharged from jail, promises his wife to lead a new life. While searching for work, he rescues Curly, a newsboy, from the clutches of a tramp, who, in trying to steal the boy's secret hoard, beats him up badly.
28 January 1924
Ellie Byrne and Don Lane, chums, living in the poor section of a factory town, go away to make their fortunes.
26 February 1931
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
22 March 1921
Hugh Garth hides from the law in the frozen Canadian northwest along with his young brother Pete and Pete's former nurse, Bella, who loves Hugh unrequitedly.
30 December 1932
After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.
11 June 1928
Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears to be no oil, and everyone is angry until oil is re-discovered.
01 August 1925
The Unwritten Law is an extant 1925 silent film crime melodrama directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Elaine Hammerstein.
15 November 1926
An out-of-work pants presser starts an umbrella business and makes a fortune. His daughter is set to marry the nephew of a rich neighbor until the nephew is accused of stealing money from his uncle--but the money was really stolen by the rich man's son.
30 January 1932
A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.
21 April 1916
An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.
01 May 1923
Disowned by her family for marrying beneath her class, Alice Larkin lives in a modest home with her husband, John, and their children.
15 January 1927
Pa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?
19 September 1920
Ort Hutchins is a confirmed loafer who spends all of his time fishing while his wife toils over the washtub.
24 September 1922
A woman finds herself being a unpaid skivvy to her husband, two daughters and her son.
15 February 1935
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
27 September 1925
A stern old woman, who owns the largest factory in a small town and has ruled both the factory and the town with an iron hand, finds herself battling with the wife of her nephew, the man she has picked to succeed her.
04 September 1916
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
03 September 1916
Bessie Allen, a girl of the slums, dances in the streets of the Lower East Side of New York to the delight of the crowds.
03 September 1927
Though she loves one man, an ambitious Palm Beach girl marries another, whom she thinks is rich. He turns out to be a fraud who thought she was an heiress.
08 March 1915
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine.
29 March 1931
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme.
09 September 1920
1860 ushers in the era of iron ships, Richard Sibley, a builder of wooden ships, stubbornly resists the change, which leads him to forbid the marriage of his daughter Rose to John Rhead, a proponent of the new method.
12 April 1914
Frank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of his wife, son and daughter.
16 May 1914
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery.
09 December 1917
Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm.
18 June 1916
When Dorothy's Southern, aristocratic father Colonel Raleigh refuses to let her marry Forbes Stewart, a Northern gambler, the couple elopes.
08 December 1915
Marie is a village girl, very religious. Her mother, fearing some man will make her unhappy (as she had been made by a man) made her promise on her deathbed that she would enter a nunnery.
15 June 1924
A small-town businessman bumbles into blackmail and a real-estate swindle.
15 December 1918
Marion Clark, a manicurist, is unimpressed by the wealthy but dissipated men who frequent her shop, preferring city editor Dick Strong, who lives in her boardinghouse.
19 April 1915
Oliver and Elizabeth wed. He is a famous lawyer, careless of his personal conduct, but has implicit faith in Elizabeth.
23 May 1923
For the sake of his impoverished mother, Joe Newbolt bonds himself to harsh Isom Chase. Ollie Chase tires of the difficult life her husband has forced on her and plans to elope with Cyrus Morgan, but Joe's sense of honor forces him to intervene.
20 June 1926
Lovely Mary, an orphan girl, reluctantly takes charge of her sister's child when her sister Kate is jailed.
26 September 1927
Two young women transform from an innocent girls into a jazz mad flappers.
02 April 1922
Ann Wesley, a wealthy society girl is loved by Bart Andrews. Andrews reproaches Ann for her frivolity and believes she has a better self hidden within her.
04 June 1916
Shakespeare's tragedy of the Scots nobleman whose ambition leads him to betrayal, murder, and damnation.
31 May 1915
Helen Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a memorial to him.
14 June 1914
After Gasper La Sage and his cohort, Blink Blunk, are released from prison, they make plans for another robbery.
10 March 1915
Jim Dodson, a poor workman, has been in the habit of begging a streetcar transfer in town, in order to ride home each night from work.
23 June 1928
Stirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war and chivalry.
04 April 1926
The story is set in the hills of Tennessee, where practically everybody gets smashed on rotgut moonshine.
09 November 1924
A Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a side-show wrestling match.
02 May 1926
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
15 December 1925
Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to party, and finds that it's impossible to please her and still keep up with his studies and athletic training.
20 August 1916
After her father's death, little Briar Rose is taken in by the men at a lumber camp. The girl shows a definite preference for one of the lumberjacks, "Hell-to-Pay" Austin, so he becomes her new "father.
01 April 1919
Based on the Rupert Hughes novel, this film concerns the German atrocities committed in Belgium at the beginning of the Great War.
02 April 1920
A young man just released from prison can't find work because no employer will hire an ex-convict. Broke and hungry, he steals money off of a painter.
28 April 1914
Short film telling the story of diamond smuggling.
28 July 1929
A young man is sentenced to prison for a term of eight years, yet he's allowed out if he promises not to get married for those eight years, lest he be forced to complete his sentence behind bars.
01 December 1928
A poor but honest sheet-music salesman is parted from his wealthy fiancée when she mistakenly comes to believe he’s nothing but a gold digger.
10 April 1921
Clay Whipple is convicted of murdering the governor following an incident involving a cat's eye pin. Whipple is sentenced to death, but a mentalist named Psychic Jack believes he is innocent since Whipple had been hypnotized at the time of the murder.
07 October 1923
Young Angus Burke accidentally shoots the sheriff, who is leading a posse to get the boy's father, a thief.
01 November 1919
A woman in Canada abused by her aunt falls in love with a foreign composer looking for inspiration, who comes to find it in her and the star-crossed romance that develops between them.
18 October 1925
War buddies Whitey and Skeeter have become safecrackers. On a job, Skeeter is surprised by the police and killed.
05 July 1925
Malcolm McGregor joins the circus and falls in love with Olive Borden but his life changes when he finds out he is a titled Lord.
04 November 1916
Young Hindu woman Radha, becomes best friends with Captain Raymond Townsend during his service in India, but he soon goes back to England to tend to the estate of an uncle who has just died.
15 October 1923
Hardy ranch owner Delia Jamieson hires John Trent as her foreman after he befriends her niece Martha.
