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