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