Seena Owen

Acting · 0.6 popularity

Age

131

Movies

Born: November 13, 1894 – August 15, 1966
From: Spokane, Washington, USA

Biography

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.

Works

49 films

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

19167.1

Victory

19196.2

Sisters

1922

Lavender and Old Lace

19218.0

Queen Kelly

19296.5

Martha's Vindication

1916

His Last Haul

19288.0

Riders of Vengeance

19196.5

For Woman's Favor

19247.0

The Price of Redemption

19207.0

A Man And His Money

191910.0

The Life Line

19197.0

The Face in the Fog

19227.0

Unseeing Eyes

1923

Shipwrecked

1926

Sinners in Love

19285.0

I Am the Man

19247.0

Back Pay

19226.9

The City of Comrades

19199.0

Breed of Men

1919

The Blue Danube

192810.0

The Marriage Playground

19296.0

The Fall of Babylon

19195.9

One of the Finest

191910.0

Man-Made Women

19289.0

The Flame of the Yukon

192610.0

The Lamb

1915

Officer Thirteen

19326.6

The Gift Supreme

19207.0

The Hunted Woman

19258.0

The Woman God Changed

19218.0

The Fox Woman

1915

An Old-Fashioned Girl

1915

Madame Bo-Peep

1917

The Cheater Reformed

19217.0

The Craven

1915

The Great Well

192410.0

A Yankee from the West

1915

Faint Perfume

19257.0

A Fugitive from Matrimony

19199.0

The Sheriff's Son

19198.0

A Woman's Awakening

19177.0

Branding Broadway

1918

Sooner or Later

19204.0

The Leavenworth Case

1923

The Rush Hour

19277.0

The Go-Getter

19238.0

The Better Way

1914

A Flight for a Fortune

19148.0

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Seena Owen

Acting · 0.6 popularity

Age

131

Movies

Born: November 13, 1894 – August 15, 1966
From: Spokane, Washington, USA

Biography

Works

49 films

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

19167.1

Victory

19196.2

Sisters

1922

Lavender and Old Lace

19218.0

Queen Kelly

19296.5

Martha's Vindication

1916

His Last Haul

19288.0

Riders of Vengeance

19196.5

For Woman's Favor

19247.0

The Price of Redemption

19207.0

A Man And His Money

191910.0

The Life Line

19197.0

The Face in the Fog

19227.0

Unseeing Eyes

1923

Shipwrecked

1926

Sinners in Love

19285.0

I Am the Man

19247.0

Back Pay

19226.9

The City of Comrades

19199.0

Breed of Men

1919

The Blue Danube

192810.0

The Marriage Playground

19296.0

The Fall of Babylon

19195.9

One of the Finest

191910.0

Man-Made Women

19289.0

The Flame of the Yukon

192610.0

The Lamb

1915

Officer Thirteen

19326.6

The Gift Supreme

19207.0

The Hunted Woman

19258.0

The Woman God Changed

19218.0

The Fox Woman

1915

An Old-Fashioned Girl

1915

Madame Bo-Peep

1917

The Cheater Reformed

19217.0

The Craven

1915

The Great Well

192410.0

A Yankee from the West

1915

Faint Perfume

19257.0

A Fugitive from Matrimony

19199.0

The Sheriff's Son

19198.0

A Woman's Awakening

19177.0

Branding Broadway

1918

Sooner or Later

19204.0

The Leavenworth Case

1923

The Rush Hour

19277.0

The Go-Getter

19238.0

The Better Way

1914

A Flight for a Fortune

19148.0