Alice Hollister
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From Wikipedia Alice Hollister (September 28, 1886 – February 24, 1973) was an American silent film actress who appeared in 85 films between 1911 and 1925. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, she is believed to have been the daughter of French-Canadian immigrants. In 1903, at age seventeen, she married George K. Hollister who a few years later became a pioneer cinematographer with Kalem Studios in New York City. They had a daughter, Doris Ethel, born in 1906, and George Jr., born in 1908. When Kalem Studios began sending a film crew to Florida in the wintertime, Alice Hollister accompanied her husband. She began appearing in film in 1911, at first because of the small crew and the frequent need for a female in a bit part. However, she liked acting and went on to appear in many films, the last in 1925. One of Hollister's most important roles was that of Mary Magdalene in the film From the Manger to the Cross (1912). Filmed on location in Palestine, this film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The Vampire (1913) made her the first recognized vamp in cinema, predating Theda Bara in A Fool There Was (1915). For that role, she was dubbed "the original vampire". She reprised the character in The Vampire's Trail (1914) and The Lotus Woman (1916), her last film for Kalem. Alice Hollister's husband died in 1952 and she died in 1973, aged 86, in Costa Mesa, California. They are interred together in the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Solace at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Known for
Credits
Loaded Dice (1918)
Actor
From the Manger to the Cross (1912)
as Mary Magdalene
The Vampire (1913)
as Sybil
Shenandoah (1913)
as Mrs. Constance Haverhill
A Wise Fool (1921)
as Carmen Dolores
The Dancers (1925)
as Mrs. Mayne
A Sister's Burden (1915)
as Martha Hensley - the Elder Daughter
The Poacher's Pardon (1912)
as Dora - the Gamekeeper's Daughter
The Man in Hiding (1915)
as Ruth - Tom's Sweetheart
The Fatal Legacy (1913)
as Maud Halleck - Jack's Wife
The Net of Deceit (1915)
as Gabrielle - an Adventuress
A Son of Strife (1918)
as Xenia Vaskova
A Voice in the Dark (1921)
as Amelia Ellingham
Milestones (1920)
as Gertrude Rhead
The Knife (1918)
as Stella Hill
The Great Lover (1920)
as Bianca
Dust of the Desert (1912)
Actor
Don Caesar de Bazan (1915)
as Maritana
The Treasure Ship (1914)
as Beth Bascom - the Daughter
The Siren's Reign (1915)
as Grace - a Soubrette
Far from Erin's Isle (1912)
Actor
Her Better Self (1917)
as Aggie May
The Money Gulf (1915)
as Ruth Mason
The Scorpion's Sting (1915)
as Lyda Marston - the Daughter
The Shadow (1914)
as Jane Dean - the Daughter
The Forgotten Law (1922)
as Rosalie
Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler (1914)
as Mary Redding - Kit's Wife
A Virginia Feud (1913)
as Rose McDonald
Her Bitter Lesson (1914)
as Mrs. Evelyn Dane
The Scimitar of the Prophet (1913)
as Doris Harris - his wife
Seed and the Harvest (1914)
as Ida McIntyre - Lawyer
Tragedy of the Desert (1912)
as Zenab, The Arab Girl
The Wartime Siren (1913)
as Rosalie Ashby
The Fiddler’s Requiem (1911)
as Bridesmaid
The Fishermaid of Ballydavid (1911)
as Policeman's Wife
The Lotus Woman (1916)
as Juana
The Barefoot Boy (1914)
as Eleanor Hastings - the Mother
The Haunting Fear (1915)
as Katherine
The Wheel of Death (1913)
as Mary Brown - the Wife
A Mississippi Tragedy (1913)
Actor
A Midnight Tragedy (1914)
as Marjory Priestman - the Wife
The Terror of Conscience (1913)
as Carmela - the Street Singer
The Cabaret Dancer (1914)
as Martha - Don's Sweetheart
The Peril of the Dance Hall (1913)
as Pepita Florenti
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec (1914)
as Katherine Lowther
Her Husband's Friend (1914)
as Alice Lund - the Wife
The Padrone's Plot (1913)
as Tony's Wife
The Little Gluers (1912)
as Nora Drew
Ireland, the Oppressed (1912)
as Peggy
The Vampire's Trail (1914)
as Rita Caselli - a Cabaret Singer
The Alien (1913)
as Josina - Paola's Wife
The Colleen Bawn (1911)
as Anne Chute
A Prisoner of the Harem (1912)
as Zorah
A Stolen Identity (1913)
as Mildred Anderson
By a Woman's Wit (1911)
as Pamela
The Menace of Fate (1914)
as Ethel WIlton - the Daughter, age 19
Married Flirts (1924)
as Mrs. Callender
The Brand (1914)
as Rose Hayden - a Girl of the Slums
The Maker of Dreams (1915)
as Lorna Greene - the Daughter
The Stolen Ruby (1915)
as Marcia Judson - an Adventuress
The Man of Iron (1914)
as Margery Stanley - the Daughter
The Prosecuting Attorney (1913)
as The Attorney's Wife
The Lost Diamond (1913)
as Nancy - the Accomplice
Through the Flames (1914)
as Marion Hall - Donald's Wife
The Blind Basket Weaver (1913)
as Anna - Paul's Crippled Sweetheart
The Message of the Palms (1913)
as Lovie Carlton - the Colonel's Daughter
The Show Girl's Glove (1914)
as Stella Desmond - the Show Girl
A Victim of Heredity (1913)
as Jane - the Thief's Daughter
A Desperate Chance (1913)
as Ruth - the Telegraph Operator
Primitive Man (1913)
as Betty - a Girl of the Mountains
Honor Thy Father (1915)
as Alma Fenway - Chick's Wife
A Celebrated Case (1914)
Actor
A Sawmill Hazard (1913)
as Alice Hollister
An Arabian Tragedy (1912)
as Hanifi (Slave Girl) Ayub's 2nd Wife
The False Guardian (1914)
as Helen Graham - an Orphan
The Shaughraun (1912)
as Moyra
Vagabonds (1912)
as Jane
Frayed Fagin's Adventures (1913)
Actor
Man's Greed for Gold (1913)
as Mrs. Carter
The Hate That Withers (1914)
as Iola Neville - a Flirt
The Hobo and the Myth (1913)
Actor
The Destroyer (1915)
as Cherie - a Dancer
The Storm at Sea (1914)
as Jane
Into the Depths (1914)
Actor
The Hand of Fate (1914)
as Florence - a Stenographer
The Devil's Dansant (1914)
as Valerie Farrar - the Wife
The Bribe (1913)
as Dora Malcolm
The Crooked Path (1915)
as Mary - an Orphan
The Hidden Witness (1913)
as Bernice Hamilton - the Governess
The Sign of the Broken Shackles (1915)
as Irene Cross - a Tenant
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet (1914)
as Jessica Spear - an Adventuress
Driving Home the Cows (1912)
Actor