Alice Joyce
Alice Joyce ( born October 1, 1890 in Kansas City, Missouri; † October 9, 1955 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California ) was an American actress. At the height of her fame, she was known as the " Madonna of the Screen".
Life
Alice Joyce began her career as a telephone operator, to get later on different model activities leading roles in the film. It rose rapidly since 1910 as one of the biggest stars of the Kalem Studios and played mostly well-bred ladies of high society in melodramas, comedies and occasionally crime stories. With the merger of Kalem and Vitaphone in 1916, the popularity of Joyce, who until well into the 1920s still had the roll compartment of naive successes increased. Slowly, she also took on more mature roles, and so they played in 1925, one of their most productive years, first the daughter of Belle Bennett in Stella Dallas and five months later, the mother of Clara Bow in Dancing Mothers, one of Joyce 's biggest successes. A short time later she signed a contract with First National gutdotierten, where she received some substantial film roles.
Although Joyce managed an easy transition from silent films to talkies, and in 1930 she turned to the side of George Arliss The Green Goddess, a remake of a film in which both stars in 1923 had a success. But a lengthy heart disease ( Louise Brooks asserts, however, there had been about alcohol problems ) forced into private life.
Joyce was married to his third wife with director Clarence Brown. In addition to Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish Alice Joyce was one of the few stars who, when it was called from the beginnings of commercial cinema " Nickelodeon ", to the sound film days were a star.