Seena Owen
Actor · 1894 – 1966 · Spokane, Washington, USA
From Wikipedia Seena Owen (November 14, 1894 – August 15, 1966) was a Danish-American silent film actress. Born Signe Auen at Spokane, Washington, the youngest of three children raised by Jens Christensen and Karen (née Sorensen) Auen. Her father and mother came from Denmark in the late 1880s and settled in Minnesota where they married in 1888. Within a short period of time they relocated to Portland and then Spokane, where her father became proprietor of the Columbia Pharmacy. Her first important film was A Yankee From the West (1915) under the name Signe Auen at the age of 21. She was later convinced to change her name and settled on Seena Owen, the phonetic spelling of her real name. In 1916 she performed in D. W. Griffith's Intolerance. The same year she married George Walsh whom she had met on the set of Intolerance. The marriage lasted until their divorce in 1924. A regular player for the rest of the silent era, Owen appeared in films such as Maurice Tourneur's Victory in 1919 where she was photographed to great effect by Tourneur's cameraman, Rene Guissart. In 1920, she appeared in "The Gift Supreme" with Lon Chaney, who appeared with her in Victory. She co-starred with Gloria Swanson and Walter Byron in the ill-fated Queen Kelly (1928), as the mad Queen who whips Swanson in one scene. With the arrival of sound in movies, Owen's weak voice became a problem and forced her to retire from the silver screen in 1933. After her retirement, she worked on a number of films in the 1930s/40s as a screenwriter including two starring Dorothy Lamour: Aloma of the South Seas and Rainbow Island, both in 1941. The former was written in part with her sister, Lillie Hayward, a successful Hollywood screenwriter, Seena Owen died on August 15, 1966 at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, aged 71, and was interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
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Movie7.1DramaHistoryThe story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916 · 390 votes
Movie6.2DramaRomanceAdaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island.
Victory
1919 · 13 votes
Movie9.0ComedyCrimeThe Riggs family, newly wealthy from Oklahoma oil, move to an estate in Ossining, New York, adjoining that of eligible bachelor Stephen Van Courtlandt, who wants to avoid marriage. Mrs. Riggs, anxious to break into society, wants her daughter Barbara to marry Stephen.
A Fugitive from Matrimony
1919 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaRomanceA convent girl is abducted and seduced by a prince before being sent off to a brothel in East Africa.
Queen Kelly
1929 · 51 votes
Movie10.0ComedyInheriting a fortune allows Harry Lathrop to indulge in extravagant spending and wild wine parties with chorus girls, decides to change his ways after his childhood sweetheart, Betty Dalrymple, gives back her engagement ring because he arrives drunk for dinner.
A Man And His Money
1919 · 1 votes
MovieDramaCherry, the youngest daughter of Dr. Strickland, marries Martin Lloyd; and Peter, a neighbor who was in love with her, unhappily begins a world tour. Returning home, Peter finds that the doctor has died, leaving the older daughter, Alix, alone; and he marries her out of desperation. Cherry, unhappy with her marriage, leaves her husband and comes to live with her sister and Peter; learning that Peter still loves her, Cherry agrees to run away with him, but they are discovered by his wife and upbraided. Martin is injured in a logging camp accident, and Cherry, realizing that she still loves her husband, goes to him. Peter resolves to free Alix, but she forgives him and they agree to start anew.
Sisters
1922
Movie7.0AdventureCrimeReturning to England a hero after saving a British garrison in India, Leigh Dering marries Jean Desmond, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. Humiliated by the patronage of his wealthy father-in-law, Leigh turns to drink, estranging him from Jean. Returning home one night he finds the body of his wife's father. When Jean accuses her husband of the crime, Leigh disappears, making it seem as if he has been killed in a railway accident.
The Price of Redemption
1920 · 1 votes
Movie6.5WesternHarry's bride is murdered at their wedding along with Harry's mother and father, and the good-hearted outlaw turns grimly malevolent.
Riders of Vengeance
1919 · 2 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
Joanne Gray goes North to find out whether her husband is dead or alive and to attempt to obtain the release of her innocent brother from jail. She becomes enamored of a youth who has staked out a gold claim but remains chaste until her husband is found and killed, meeting death in a fight with the youth's partner.
The Hunted Woman
1925 · 1 votes
Movie6.6CrimeDramaA motorcycle policeman's partner is deliberately run off the road and killed by a member of a syndicate that controls the gambling--and much of the justice system--in his town. When the killer is freed because of perjured testimony and the corrupt legal system, the dead officer's partner quits the force and vows to bring the killer to justice.
Officer Thirteen
1932 · 5 votes
Movie6.0ComedyRomanceA delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their intermarriages and blend thoroughly, and you have a mixture a too-young-to-believe Frederic March will try to straighten out.
The Marriage Playground
1929 · 5 votes
Movie5.0ComedyDramaAnn Hardy heads to the big city where she falls in love with Ted Wells, but she is heartbroken to learn he is just using her.
Sinners in Love
1928 · 2 votes
Movie6.2DramaA re-edited version of the second episode of Intolerance (1916); a mountain girl who loves Belshazzar strives to protect him against the evil High Priest of Bel and his treacherous cohorts.
The Fall of Babylon
1919 · 8 votes
MovieWesternAdventureGerald, the somewhat frail son of a wealthy New York family, is bested at the beach by Bill, a strapping young cowboy from Arizona. His fiancée Mary, ashamed of Gerald's "yellow streak", leaves him and goes by train to visit some friends in Arizona, with Bill in tow. Gerald follows them, and before long he and Mary winds up captured by Yaqui Indians and Gerald must prove to Mary that he is not the "weakling" she thinks he is by coming up with a plan for them to escape their captors.
The Lamb
1915
Movie10.0DramaIn India a major tries to cash in on a dry oil well but shoots himself when the oil returns.
The Great Well
1924 · 1 votes
Movie10.0RomanceMarguerite, the beauty of an Austrian village, loves the poverty-stricken Baron Erich von Statzen, although her mother is opposed to the affair, having been made suspicious by the hunchback Ludwig, who is smitten by Marguerite's charms and insanely jealous of Statzen. Statzen's uncle would have him marry Helena Boursch, the local brewer's daughter, to save his dwindling estate. Ordered to the front when war is declared, Statzen is forced to leave without saying goodby to Marguerite.
The Blue Danube
1928 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaMary Ainslie has been waiting 30 years for her fiancé, a sea captain, to return. She has kept a light burning in her window to guide him home. His son Carl, by another woman, arrives on vacation in the New England village where Mary lives. Mary is overcome by the resemblance between the young man and his father. The young man falls in love with Ruth, Mary's young comrade. On her deathbed, Mary wishes Carl and Ruth the romantic life that she did not live.
Lavender and Old Lace
1921 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaBradford Vinton falls in love with a girl singer from the slums, but his father makes plans to break the relationship; when the plans fail, he disinherits his son.
The Gift Supreme
1920 · 1 votes
Movie7.0MysteryBoston Blackie Dawson gets some jewels that belonged to the imperial family of Russia. A gang of terrorists is after the jewels.
The Face in the Fog
1922 · 2 votes
MovieAdventureDramaThe sister of a silver mine owner hires a renegade pilot to fly her to her brother's rescue.
Unseeing Eyes
1923
- Movie7.0Crime
A jealous politician tries to force a woman to marry him by framing her father for a crime.
I Am the Man
1924 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaA young man becomes a burglar due to hunger, but after gathering up his booty feeds himself from the victims' larders, and thus, no longer hungry, feels compelled to return the loot. In one case, he is discovered in the act by a young lady who finds in him a suitable case for reclamation.
The City of Comrades
1919 · 1 votes
Movie8.0Drama1928 American silent crime drama film directed by Marshall Neilan.
His Last Haul
1928 · 1 votes
MovieDramaA 1916 film directed by Chester M. Franklin.