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Seena Owen‌

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Female

Birthday

calendar1894-11-13

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Seena Owen

Spokane, Washington, USA

Seena Owen

Spokane, Washington, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1894-11-13

Popularity

star1.1

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.

Movie Credits

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages‌
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calendar 1916

For Woman's Favor

For Woman's Favor‌
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calendar 1924

The Fox Woman

The Fox Woman‌
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calendar 1915

Queen Kelly

Queen Kelly‌
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calendar 1932

The Flame of the Yukon

The Flame of the Yukon‌
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calendar 1926

The Hunted Woman

The Hunted Woman‌
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calendar 1925

The Sheriff's Son

The Sheriff's Son‌
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calendar 1919

Sooner or Later

Sooner or Later‌
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calendar 1920

The Craven

The Craven‌
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calendar 1915

A Yankee from the West

A Yankee from the West‌
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calendar 1915

Lavender and Old Lace

Lavender and Old Lace‌
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calendar 1921

One of the Finest

One of the Finest‌
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calendar 1919

I Am the Man

I Am the Man‌
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calendar 1924

Victory

Victory‌
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calendar 1919

The Rush Hour

The Rush Hour‌
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calendar 1927

The Better Way

The Better Way‌
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calendar 1914

An Old-Fashioned Girl

An Old-Fashioned Girl‌
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calendar 1915

The Lamb

The Lamb‌
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calendar 1915

Unseeing Eyes

Unseeing Eyes‌
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calendar 1923

The Blue Danube

The Blue Danube‌
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calendar 1928

The Fall of Babylon

The Fall of Babylon‌
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calendar 1919

The Gift Supreme

The Gift Supreme‌
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calendar 1920

Shipwrecked

Shipwrecked‌
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calendar 1926

Back Pay

Back Pay‌
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calendar 1922

The Cheater Reformed

The Cheater Reformed‌
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calendar 1921

The Face in the Fog

The Face in the Fog‌
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calendar 1922

The Great Well

The Great Well‌
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calendar 1924

Martha's Vindication

Martha's Vindication‌
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calendar 1916

Madame Bo-Peep

Madame Bo-Peep‌
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calendar 1917

Madame Bo-Peep

Madame Bo-Peep‌
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calendar 1917

A Woman's Awakening

A Woman's Awakening‌
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calendar 1917

Riders of Vengeance

Riders of Vengeance‌
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calendar 1919

Faint Perfume

Faint Perfume‌
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calendar 1925

The Marriage Playground

The Marriage Playground‌
star5.8
calendar 1929

Branding Broadway

Branding Broadway‌
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calendar 1918

Officer Thirteen

Officer Thirteen‌
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calendar 1932

The Life Line

The Life Line‌
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calendar 1919

A Man And His Money

A Man And His Money‌
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calendar 1919

The Woman God Changed

The Woman God Changed‌
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calendar 1921

Breed of Men

Breed of Men‌
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calendar 1919

Man-Made Women

Man-Made Women‌
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calendar 1928

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