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person_profile-Seena Owen

Seena Owen Died at age: 71

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Seena Owen

Date of Birth:

Nov 14, 1894

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Aug 15, 1966

Biography of

Seena Owen

    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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Seena Owen

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Filmography of

Seena Owen

Found 31 Movies in total

Officer Thirteen

Trixi Du Bray ( Actor )

... 1932

Queen Kelly

Queen Regina V ( Actor )

... 1932

The Marriage Playground

Rose Sellers ( Actor )

... 1929

Man-Made Women

Georgette ( Actor )

... 1928

The Blue Danube

Helena Boursch ( Actor )

... 1928

The Flame of the Yukon

The Flame ( Actor )

... 1926

Shipwrecked

Lois Austin ( Actor )

... 1926

Faint Perfume

Richmiel Crumb ( Actor )

... 1925

For Woman's Favor

June Paige ( Actor )

... 1924

Unseeing Eyes

Miriam Helston ( Actor )

... 1923

The Leavenworth Case

Eleanor Leavenworth ( Actor )

... 1923

The Face in the Fog

Grand Duchess Tatiana ( Actor )

... 1922

Back Pay

Hester Bevins ( Actor )

... 1922

The Woman God Changed

Anna Janssen ( Actor )

... 1921

Lavender and Old Lace

Ruth Thorne ( Actor )

... 1921

The Cheater Reformed

Carol McCall ( Actor )

... 1921

The Gift Supreme

Sylvia Alden ( Actor )

... 1920

Sooner or Later

Edna Ellis ( Actor )

... 1920

Victory

Alma ( Actor )

... 1919

The Life Line

Laura ( Actor )

... 1919

The Fall of Babylon

Attarea ( Actor )

... 1919

Riders of Vengeance

The Girl ( Actor )

... 1919

One of the Finest

Frances Hudson ( Actor )

... 1919

The Sheriff's Son

Beulah Rutherford ( Actor )

... 1919

A Man And His Money

Betty Dalrymple ( Actor )

... 1919

Breed of Men

Ruth Fellows ( Actor )

... 1919

Branding Broadway

Mary Lee ( Actor )

... 1918

A Woman's Awakening

Paula Letchworth ( Actor )

... 1917

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Princess Beloved (Attarea) (Babylonian Story) ( Actor )

... 1916

Martha's Vindication

Dorothea ( Actor )

... 1916

The Lamb

Mary ( Actor )

... 1915