Seena Owen

Known for ActingBorn 1894-11-13Died 1966-08-15Spokane, 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.Read more

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The Blue Danube

The Flame of the Yukon

The Great Well

One of the Finest

A Man And His Money

Clarence

Man-Made Women

The City of Comrades

A Fugitive from Matrimony

Sinners in Love

His Last Haul

The Hunted Woman

The Go-Getter

Lavender and Old Lace

The Woman God Changed

The Sheriff's Son

A Flight for a Fortune

Aloma of the South Seas

Thrill of a Lifetime

This Way Please

The Rush Hour

Faint Perfume

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

For Woman's Favor

I Am the Man

The Face in the Fog

The Cheater Reformed

The Gift Supreme

The Price of Redemption

The Life Line

A Woman's Awakening

Back Pay

Officer Thirteen

Queen Kelly

The Great Man's Lady

Riders of Vengeance

Victory

Carnegie Hall

The Marriage Playground

The Fall of Babylon

Sooner or Later

Shipwrecked

Unseeing Eyes

The Leavenworth Case

Sisters

Breed of Men

Branding Broadway

Madame Bo-Peep