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Seena Owen

Seena Owen

Known For Acting
Birthday Nov 13, 1894
Died Aug 15, 1966 (71)
Birthplace Spokane, Washington, USA
Popularity 0.1 (history)
Updated Aug 10, 2025
Entry Date Apr 26, 2024
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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 s ... ettled 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.

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Queen Kelly

Queen Kelly

1932

as Queen Regina V

Officer Thirteen

Officer Thirteen

1932

as Trixi Du Bray

The Marriage Playground

The Marriage Playground

1929

as Rose Sellers

The Blue Danube

The Blue Danube

1928

as Helena Boursch

Man-Made Women

Man-Made Women

1928

as Georgette

The Rush Hour

The Rush Hour

1927

as Yvonne Dorée

Shipwrecked

Shipwrecked

1926

as Lois Austin

The Flame of the Yukon

The Flame of the Yukon

1926

as The Flame

Faint Perfume

Faint Perfume

1925

as Richmiel Crumb

The Hunted Woman

The Hunted Woman

1925

as Joanne Gray

For Woman's Favor

For Woman's Favor

1924

as June Paige

I Am the Man

I Am the Man

1924

as Julia Calvert

The Great Well

The Great Well

1924

as Camilla Challenor

Unseeing Eyes

Unseeing Eyes

1923

as Miriam Helston

Back Pay

Back Pay

1922

as Hester Bevins

The Face in the Fog

The Face in the Fog

1922

as Grand Duchess Tatiana

The Woman God Changed

The Woman God Changed

1921

as Anna Janssen

The Cheater Reformed

The Cheater Reformed

1921

as Carol McCall

Lavender and Old Lace

Lavender and Old Lace

1921

as Ruth Thorne

Sooner or Later

Sooner or Later

1920

as Edna Ellis

The Sheriff's Son

The Sheriff's Son

1919

as Beulah Rutherford

One of the Finest

One of the Finest

1919

as Frances Hudson

Riders of Vengeance

Riders of Vengeance

1919

as The Girl

Breed of Men

Breed of Men

1919

as Ruth Fellows

A Man And His Money

A Man And His Money

1919

as Betty Dalrymple

Victory

Victory

1919

as Alma

The Life Line

The Life Line

1919

as Laura

The Fall of Babylon

The Fall of Babylon

1919

as Attarea

Branding Broadway

Branding Broadway

1918

as Mary Lee

A Woman's Awakening

A Woman's Awakening

1917

as Paula Letchworth

Madame Bo-Peep

Madame Bo-Peep

1917

as Octavia

Martha's Vindication

Martha's Vindication

1916

as Dorothea

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

1916

as Princess Beloved (Attarea) (Babylonian Story)

The Fox Woman

The Fox Woman

1915

as The Fox Woman, Alice Carroway, a.k.a. Ali-San

An Old-Fashioned Girl

An Old-Fashioned Girl

1915

as Bertha - the City Girl

The Lamb

The Lamb

1915

as Mary

The Craven

The Craven

1915

as May Walton

A Yankee from the West

A Yankee from the West

1915

as Gunhild, a Norwegian Girl

Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

1947

Story

Clarence

Clarence

1937

Screenplay

Thrill of a Lifetime

Thrill of a Lifetime

1937

Screenplay, Story

This Way Please

This Way Please

1937

Screenplay

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