About

Known credits:
50
Birthday:
1894-11-13
Place of birth:
Spokane, Washington, USA
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Seena Owen

Overview

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.

Known for

Acting
1932 Officer Thirteen Actor Trixi Du Bray 58
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1932 Queen Kelly Actor Queen Regina V 59
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1929 The Marriage Playground Actor Rose Sellers 59
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1928 Man-Made Women Actor Georgette N/A
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1928 The Blue Danube Actor Helena Boursch N/A
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1927 The Rush Hour Actor Yvonne Dorée N/A
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1926 The Flame of the Yukon Actor The Flame N/A
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1926 Shipwrecked Actor Lois Austin N/A
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1925 Faint Perfume Actor Richmiel Crumb N/A
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1925 The Hunted Woman Actor Joanne Gray N/A
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1924 I Am the Man Actor Julia Calvert N/A
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1924 For Woman's Favor Actor June Paige N/A
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1924 The Great Well Actor Camilla Challenor N/A
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1923 Unseeing Eyes Actor Miriam Helston N/A
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1923 The Leavenworth Case Actor Eleanor Leavenworth N/A
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1923 The Go-Getter Actor Mary Skinner N/A
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1922 The Face in the Fog Actor Grand Duchess Tatiana 59
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1922 Back Pay Actor Hester Bevins 59
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1921 The Woman God Changed Actor Anna Janssen N/A
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1921 Lavender and Old Lace Actor Ruth Thorne N/A
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1921 The Cheater Reformed Actor Carol McCall N/A
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1920 The Gift Supreme Actor Sylvia Alden N/A
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1920 Sooner or Later Actor Edna Ellis 58
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1919 Victory Actor Alma 58
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1919 The Life Line Actor Laura N/A
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1919 The Fall of Babylon Actor Attarea 59
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1919 Riders of Vengeance Actor The Girl 58
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1919 One of the Finest Actor Frances Hudson N/A
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1919 The Sheriff's Son Actor Beulah Rutherford N/A
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1919 A Man And His Money Actor Betty Dalrymple N/A
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1919 Breed of Men Actor Ruth Fellows N/A
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1918 Branding Broadway Actor Mary Lee N/A
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1917 Madame Bo-Peep Actor Octavia N/A
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1917 Madame Bo-Peep Actor N/A
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1917 A Woman's Awakening Actor Paula Letchworth N/A
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1916 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages Actor Princess Beloved (Attarea) (Babylonian Story) 63
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1916 Martha's Vindication Actor Dorothea N/A
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1915 The Lamb Actor Mary N/A
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1915 A Yankee from the West Actor Gunhild, a Norwegian Girl N/A
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1915 The Fox Woman Actor The Fox Woman, Alice Carroway, a.k.a. Ali-San N/A
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1915 An Old-Fashioned Girl Actor Bertha - the City Girl N/A
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1915 The Craven Actor May Walton N/A
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1914 The Better Way Actor N/A
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Writing
1947 Carnegie Hall Writing Story 58
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1941 The Great Man's Lady Writing Story 58
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1941 Aloma of the South Seas Writing Writer 59
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1937 Thrill of a Lifetime Writing Story 59
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1937 Thrill of a Lifetime Writing Screenplay 59
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1937 This Way Please Writing Screenplay 59
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1937 Clarence Writing Screenplay N/A
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