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Seena Owen
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Seena Owen
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1894-11-13,Spokane, Washington, USA
Gender
Female
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.

Filmography

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

7.1

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916-09-04

For Woman's Favor

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For Woman's Favor
1924-08-01

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The Fox Woman
1915-07-15

6.5

Queen Kelly
1932-10-18

The Flame of the Yukon

0

The Flame of the Yukon
1926-08-30

The Hunted Woman

0

The Hunted Woman
1925-03-22

The Sheriff's Son

0

The Sheriff's Son
1919-03-30

Sooner or Later

1

Sooner or Later
1920-02-01

0

The Craven
1915-01-23

A Yankee from the West

0

A Yankee from the West
1915-08-19

Lavender and Old Lace

0

Lavender and Old Lace
1921-06-01

One of the Finest

0

One of the Finest
1919-06-01

0

I Am the Man
1924-12-15

5.8

Victory
1919-12-07

0

The Rush Hour
1927-12-12

0

The Better Way
1914-12-22

An Old-Fashioned Girl

0

An Old-Fashioned Girl
1915-02-02

0

The Lamb
1915-11-06

0

Unseeing Eyes
1923-11-18

The Blue Danube

0

The Blue Danube
1928-03-11

The Fall of Babylon

6

The Fall of Babylon
1919-07-21

The Gift Supreme

0

The Gift Supreme
1920-03-30

0

Shipwrecked
1926-05-09

6.3

Back Pay
1922-01-08

The Cheater Reformed

0

The Cheater Reformed
1921-01-02

The Face in the Fog

6

The Face in the Fog
1922-10-07

0

The Great Well
1924-03-01

Martha's Vindication

0

Martha's Vindication
1916-02-20

0

Madame Bo-Peep
1917-05-26

0

Madame Bo-Peep
1917-05-26

A Woman's Awakening

0

A Woman's Awakening
1917-03-24

Riders of Vengeance

3

Riders of Vengeance
1919-06-09

0

Faint Perfume
1925-06-08

The Marriage Playground

5.8

The Marriage Playground
1929-12-12

Branding Broadway

0

Branding Broadway
1918-12-15

Officer Thirteen

6.2

Officer Thirteen
1932-11-26

0

The Life Line
1919-10-05

A Man And His Money

0

A Man And His Money
1919-03-16

The Woman God Changed

0

The Woman God Changed
1921-07-03

0

Breed of Men
1919-02-02

0

Man-Made Women
1928-09-09

The Leavenworth Case

0

The Leavenworth Case
1923-11-04

0

The Go-Getter
1923-04-08