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