Alice Hollister
Biography
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
Aggie May
Her Better Self
Mrs. Callender
Married Flirts
Loaded Dice
Katherine Lowther
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
Carmela - the Street Singer
The Terror of Conscience
Jane - the Thief's Daughter
A Victim of Heredity
Mary Brown - the Wife
The Wheel of Death
Mildred Anderson
A Stolen Identity
Nancy - the Accomplice
The Lost Diamond
Mrs. Constance Haverhill
Shenandoah
Bernice Hamilton - the Governess
The Hidden Witness
Rose McDonald
A Virginia Feud
Anna - Paul's Crippled Sweetheart
The Blind Basket Weaver
Dora Malcolm
The Bribe
Betty - a Girl of the Mountains
Primitive Man
Maud Halleck - Jack's Wife
The Fatal Legacy
The Hobo and the Myth
Tony's Wife
The Padrone's Plot
Frayed Fagin's Adventures
Alice Lund - the Wife
Her Husband's Friend
Martha - Don's Sweetheart
The Cabaret Dancer
Jane Dean - the Daughter
The Shadow
A Celebrated Case
Stella Desmond - the Show Girl
The Show Girl's Glove
Marion Hall - Donald's Wife
Through the Flames
Beth Bascom - the Daughter
The Treasure Ship
Jane
The Storm at Sea
Rose Hayden - a Girl of the Slums
The Brand
Mary Redding - Kit's Wife
Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler
Florence - a Stenographer
The Hand of Fate
Valerie Farrar - the Wife
The Devil's Dansant
Ruth - Tom's Sweetheart
The Man in Hiding
Gabrielle - an Adventuress
The Net of Deceit
Driving Home the Cows
Dust of the Desert
Dora - the Gamekeeper's Daughter
The Poacher's Pardon
Hanifi (Slave Girl) Ayub's 2nd Wife
An Arabian Tragedy
Zorah
A Prisoner of the Harem
Ruth Mason
The Money Gulf
Irene Cross - a Tenant
The Sign of the Broken Shackles
Nora Drew
The Kerry Gow
Peggy
Ireland, the Oppressed
The Attorney's Wife
The Prosecuting Attorney
Xenia Vaskova
A Son of Strife
Ruth - the Telegraph Operator
A Desperate Chance
Pepita Florenti
The Peril of the Dance Hall
Alice Hollister
A Sawmill Hazard
Moyra
The Shaughraun
Lovie Carlton - the Colonel's Daughter
The Message of the Palms
Stella Hill
The Knife
Amelia Ellingham
A Voice in the Dark
Carmen Dolores
A Wise Fool
A Mississippi Tragedy
Rita Caselli - a Cabaret Singer
The Vampire's Trail
Josina - Paola's Wife
The Alien
Doris Harris - his wife
The Scimitar of the Prophet
Juana
The Lotus Woman
Mrs. Carter
Man's Greed for Gold
Rosalie Ashby
The Wartime Siren
Into the Depths
Rosalie
The Forgotten Law
Eleanor Hastings - the Mother
The Barefoot Boy
Ethel WIlton - the Daughter, age 19
The Menace of Fate
Ida McIntyre - Lawyer
Seed and the Harvest
Marjory Priestman - the Wife
A Midnight Tragedy
Helen Graham - an Orphan
The False Guardian
Marcia Judson - an Adventuress
The Stolen Ruby
Margery Stanley - the Daughter
The Man of Iron
Iola Neville - a Flirt
The Hate That Withers
Katherine
The Haunting Fear
Mary - an Orphan
The Crooked Path
Jessica Spear - an Adventuress
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
Alma Fenway - Chick's Wife
Honor Thy Father
Martha Hensley - the Elder Daughter
A Sister's Burden
Cherie - a Dancer
The Destroyer
Lyda Marston - the Daughter
The Scorpion's Sting
Mrs. Evelyn Dane
Her Bitter Lesson
Grace - a Soubrette
The Siren's Reign
Maritana
Don Caesar de Bazan
Lorna Greene - the Daughter
The Maker of Dreams
Bianca
The Great Lover
Mary Magdalene
From the Manger to the Cross
Sybil
The Vampire
Pamela
By a Woman's Wit
Mrs. Mayne
The Dancers
Anne Chute
The Colleen Bawn
Bridesmaid
The Fiddler’s Requiem
Gertrude Rhead
Milestones
Zenab, The Arab Girl
Tragedy of the Desert
Far from Erin's Isle
Jane
Vagabonds
Policeman's Wife
The Fishermaid of Ballydavid
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
92
Gender
Female
Birthday
1886-09-28
Place of Birth
Worcester - Massachusetts - USA
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