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Mary Alden (1883–1946)

Actress

A graduate of New York's Art Students League, Mary Alden appeared in Broadway plays and other legitimate theater for several years before entering films. Probably her most memorable part was as Lydia Brown, the mulatto housekeeper of the villain Stoneman, in D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation. See full bio »

Born:

Mary Maguire Alden
in New York City, New York, USA

Died:

(age 63) in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
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1937 That I May Live
Woman in Auto Camp (uncredited)
 
1936 Career Woman
Townswoman (uncredited)
 
1936 Legion of Terror
Accident Onlooker (uncredited)
 
1936 Gentle Julia
Aunt (uncredited)
 
1935 The Great Hotel Murder
Mrs. Harvey (uncredited)
 
1935 One More Spring
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
 
1932 Strange Interlude
Maid
 
1932 Rasputin and the Empress (uncredited)
 
1932 When a Fellow Needs a Friend
Mrs. Higgins (uncredited)
 
1932 Hell's House
Lucy Mason (uncredited)
 
1931 Politics
Mrs. Mary Evans
 
1931 The Bad Sister
Minor Role (uncredited)
 
1929 Port of Dreams
 
1928 Someone to Love
Harriet Newton
 
1928 Sawdust Paradise
Mother
 
1928 The Cossacks
Lukashka's mother
 
1928 Ladies of the Mob
Soft Annie
 
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 The Unwritten Law
 
1925 Under the Rouge
Martha Maynard
 
1925 The Happy Warrior
Aunt Maggie
 
1925 Faint Perfume
Ma Crumb
 
1925 Siege
Aunt Augusta Ruyland
 
1924 The Beloved Brute
Augustina
 
1924 Babbitt
Mrs. Myra Babbitt
 
1924 Trust Your Wife
 
1924 When a Girl Loves
The Czarina
 
1924 A Fool's Awakening
Myra
 
1924 Painted People
Mrs. Bryne
 
1923 Pleasure Mad
Marjorie Benton
 
1923 The Eagle's Feather
Delia Jamiesoon
 
1923 The Steadfast Heart
Mrs. Burke
 
1923 The Empty Cradle
Alice Larkin
 
1923 The Tents of Allah
Oulaid
 
1923 Has the World Gone Mad!
Mrs. Bell
 
1922 The Bond Boy
Mrs. Newboat
 
1922 Notoriety
Ann Boland
 
1922 A Woman's Woman
Densie Plummer
 
1922 The Hidden Woman
Mrs. Randolph
 
1922 Man with Two Mothers
Widow O'Neill
 
1922 Disposing of Mother (short)
Mother Mansfield
 
1921 The Old Nest
Mrs. Anthon
 
1921 Snowblind
Bella
 
1921 The Witching Hour
Helen Whipple
 
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 Mother and the Law
An Uplifter
 
1919 The Unpardonable Sin
Mrs. Parcot
 
1919 Common Clay
Mrs. Neal
 
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 The Narrow Path
Shirley Martin
 
1916 Pillars of Society
Lona Tonnesen
 
1916 Hell-to-Pay Austin
Doris Valentine
 
1916 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Uplifter
 
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 (short)
 
1915 The Lily and the Rose
 
1915 Bred in the Bone (short)
 
1915 Ghosts
Helen Arling
 
1915 A Man's Prerogative
Elizabeth Towne
 
1915 The Outcast
The Girl's Mother
 
1915 The Slave Girl (short)
Sally - a Yellow Girl
 
1915 The Lucky Transfer (short)
Helen Holland
 
1915 The Birth of a Nation
Lydia - Stoneman's Mulatto Housekeeper
 
1915/II What Might Have Been (short)
Aunt Sarah
 
1914 The Old Fisherman's Story (short)
The Gypsy
 
1914 In Fear of His Past (short)
Mary Jennings
 
1914 The Old Maid (short)
 
1914 Another Chance (short)
Mrs. Mason
 
1914 The Little Country Mouse (short)
Dorothy's Cousin - the Hostess
 
1914 A Woman Scorned (short)
Mrs. Williams - the Woman Scorned
 
1914 The Wrong Prescription (short)
A Nurse
 
1914 The Unpainted Portrait (short)
Marion Page
 
1914 The Milkfed Boy (short)
 
1914 The Second Mrs. Roebuck (short)
 
1914 A Red Man's Heart (short)
 
1914 The Vengeance of Gold (short)
Mary Lee
 
1914 The Weaker Strain (short)
 
1914 The Severed Thong (short)
The Trapper's Wife
 
1914 Lord Chumley (short)
 
1914 The Double Knot (short)
The Prospector's Sweetheart
 
1914 For the Sake of Kate (short)
Kate
 
1914 The Lover's Gift (short)
 
1914 Home, Sweet Home
The Mother
 
1914 Dad's Outlaws (short)
 
1914/I The Quicksands (short)
 
1914 Cigar Butts (short)
 
1914 The Stiletto (short)
 
1914 The Godfather (short)
 
1914 The Battle of the Sexes
Mrs. Frank Andrews
 
1913 The Worker (short)
The Worker's Wife
 
1913 Love and Gold (short)
Mary Benson
 
1913 A Dog-Gone Baron (short)
The Newspaper Reporter
 
1913 Man and Woman (short)
Mrs. James Clark
 
1913 The Grip of Jealousy (short)
The Wife
 
1913 The Dividing Line (short)
The Wife
 
1913 The Better Way (short)
Mary Denver - the Wife
 

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5' 3" (1.60 m)
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Graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City in 1910. Among her classmates were director Paul Bern (who was murdered by his first wife just after marrying Jean Harlow), and actors Tom Powers and George Shelton. William de Mille, whose father named the Academy when he was a teacher there... See more »

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