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.
Personal Details
Movies (50)
The Dancers
as Mrs. Mayne
1925
Married Flirts
as Mrs. Callender
1924
The Forgotten Law
as Rosalie
1922
A Wise Fool
as Carmen Dolores
1921
A Voice in the Dark
as Amelia Ellingham
1921
The Great Lover
as Bianca
1920
Milestones
as Gertrude Rhead
1920
Loaded Dice
1918
The Knife
as Stella Hill
1918
A Son of Strife
as Xenia Vaskova
1918
Her Better Self
as Aggie May
1917
The Lotus Woman
as Juana
1916
The Money Gulf
as Ruth Mason
1915
The Sign of the Broken Shackles
as Irene Cross - a Tenant
1915
The Net of Deceit
as Gabrielle - an Adventuress
1915
The Man in Hiding
as Ruth - Tom's Sweetheart
1915
The Maker of Dreams
as Lorna Greene - the Daughter
1915
The Crooked Path
as Mary - an Orphan
1915
Don Caesar de Bazan
as Maritana
1915
Honor Thy Father
as Alma Fenway - Chick's Wife
1915
The Haunting Fear
as Katherine
1915
A Sister's Burden
as Martha Hensley - the Elder Daughter
1915
The Destroyer
as Cherie - a Dancer
1915
The Siren's Reign
as Grace - a Soubrette
1915
The Stolen Ruby
as Marcia Judson - an Adventuress
1915
The Scorpion's Sting
as Lyda Marston - the Daughter
1915
The Hate That Withers
as Iola Neville - a Flirt
1914
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
as Jessica Spear - an Adventuress
1914
Her Bitter Lesson
as Mrs. Evelyn Dane
1914
The Man of Iron
as Margery Stanley - the Daughter
1914
A Midnight Tragedy
as Marjory Priestman - the Wife
1914
The Menace of Fate
as Ethel WIlton - the Daughter, age 19
1914
The False Guardian
as Helen Graham - an Orphan
1914
Seed and the Harvest
as Ida McIntyre - Lawyer
1914
Into the Depths
1914
The Devil's Dansant
as Valerie Farrar - the Wife
1914
The Hand of Fate
as Florence - a Stenographer
1914
The Barefoot Boy
as Eleanor Hastings - the Mother
1914
The Brand
as Rose Hayden - a Girl of the Slums
1914
The Storm at Sea
as Jane
1914
The Vampire's Trail
as Rita Caselli - a Cabaret Singer
1914
Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler
as Mary Redding - Kit's Wife
1914
Through the Flames
as Marion Hall - Donald's Wife
1914
The Show Girl's Glove
as Stella Desmond - the Show Girl
1914
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
as Katherine Lowther
1914
The Treasure Ship
as Beth Bascom - the Daughter
1914
A Celebrated Case
1914
The Cabaret Dancer
as Martha - Don's Sweetheart
1914
The Shadow
as Jane Dean - the Daughter
1914
Her Husband's Friend
as Alice Lund - the Wife
1914