Alice Hollister
Acting
- Born:
- 1886-09-28
- Died:
- 1973-02-24
- Place of birth:
- Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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
Filmography
The Dancers
Married Flirts
The Forgotten Law
A Wise Fool
A Voice in the Dark
The Great Lover
Milestones
Loaded Dice
The Knife
A Son of Strife
Her Better Self
The Lotus Woman
The Money Gulf
The Sign of the Broken Shackles
The Net of Deceit
The Man in Hiding
The Maker of Dreams
The Crooked Path
Don Caesar de Bazan
Honor Thy Father
The Haunting Fear
A Sister's Burden
The Destroyer
The Siren's Reign
The Stolen Ruby
The Scorpion's Sting
The Hate That Withers
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
Her Bitter Lesson
The Man of Iron
A Midnight Tragedy
The Menace of Fate
The False Guardian
Seed and the Harvest
Into the Depths
The Devil's Dansant
The Hand of Fate
The Barefoot Boy
The Brand
The Storm at Sea
The Vampire's Trail
Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler
Through the Flames
The Show Girl's Glove
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
The Treasure Ship
A Celebrated Case
The Cabaret Dancer
The Shadow
Her Husband's Friend
Frayed Fagin's Adventures
The Padrone's Plot
Primitive Man
The Vampire
The Hobo and the Myth
The Fatal Legacy
The Bribe
The Blind Basket Weaver
A Virginia Feud
The Lost Diamond
A Stolen Identity
The Hidden Witness
Shenandoah
The Wheel of Death
The Terror of Conscience
A Victim of Heredity
Man's Greed for Gold
The Alien
The Scimitar of the Prophet
A Mississippi Tragedy
The Wartime Siren
The Message of the Palms
The Peril of the Dance Hall
The Prosecuting Attorney
A Desperate Chance
A Sawmill Hazard
The Shaughraun
Ireland, the Oppressed
The Little Gluers
From the Manger to the Cross
The Poacher's Pardon
A Prisoner of the Harem
Tragedy of the Desert
An Arabian Tragedy
Dust of the Desert
Far from Erin's Isle
Vagabonds
Driving Home the Cows
The Fishermaid of Ballydavid
The Colleen Bawn
The Fiddler’s Requiem
By a Woman's Wit