Alice Joyce

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Alice Joyce (1926)

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 and later got her first roles in film through various modeling activities. She quickly rose to become one of the biggest stars at Kalem Studios since 1910, playing mostly well-behaved ladies of good society in melodramas, comedies and the occasional crime story. With the merger of Kalem and Vitaphone in 1916, Joyce's popularity also increased, and she enjoyed success in the role of naive until well into the 1920s. Slowly she also took on more mature roles and so she played in 1925, one of her most productive years, first the daughter of Belle Bennett in The Victim of Stella Dallas (Stella Dallas) and five months later the mother of Clara Bow in Dancing Mothers , one of Joyce's greatest successes. A short time later, she signed a well-paid contract with First National , where she received some substantial film roles.

Joyce managed to make a slight transition from silent films to talkies and in 1930 she shot The Green Goddess alongside George Arliss , the remake of a film in which both stars had a success in 1923. But a protracted heart disease ( Louise Brooks claims, however, it was alcohol problems) forced her into private life.

Joyce was married three times, all marriages divorced: from 1914 to 1920 with the actor Tom Moore , from 1920 to 1932 with the hotel heir James Regan, and from 1933 to 1945 with the director Clarence Brown . Along with Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish , Alice Joyce was one of the few stars who were a star from the beginnings of commercial cinema, when it was still called "Nickelodeon", through to the sound film days.

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SURNAME Joyce, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Kansas City , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1955
Place of death Hollywood , Los Angeles , California