Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 13, 1894
Died
Aug 15, 1966
Place of Birth
Spokane, Washington, USA
Credits
55 titles
Seena Owen
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.
Known For
Filmography
Carnegie Hall
Story
The Great Man's Lady
Story
Aloma of the South Seas
Writer
Thrill of a Lifetime
Screenplay
This Way Please
Screenplay
Clarence
Screenplay
Officer Thirteen
Trixi Du Bray
Queen Kelly
Queen Regina V
The Marriage Playground
Rose Sellers
His Last Haul
Blanche
Sinners in Love
Yvonne D'Orsy
Man-Made Women
Georgette
The Blue Danube
Helena Boursch
The Rush Hour
Yvonne Dorée
The Flame of the Yukon
The Flame
Shipwrecked
Lois Austin
Faint Perfume
Richmiel Crumb
The Hunted Woman
Joanne Gray
I Am the Man
Julia Calvert
For Woman's Favor
June Paige
The Great Well
Camilla Challenor
Unseeing Eyes
Miriam Helston
The Leavenworth Case
Eleanor Leavenworth
The Go-Getter
Mary Skinner
The Face in the Fog
Grand Duchess Tatiana
Sisters
Alix Strickland
Back Pay
Hester Bevins
The Woman God Changed
Anna Janssen
Lavender and Old Lace
Ruth Thorne
The Cheater Reformed
Carol McCall
The Price of Redemption
Jean Dering
The Gift Supreme
Sylvia Alden
Sooner or Later
Edna Ellis
Victory
Alma
A Fugitive from Matrimony
Barbara Riggs
The Life Line
Laura
The Fall of Babylon
Attarea
The City of Comrades
Regina Barry
Riders of Vengeance
The Girl
One of the Finest
Frances Hudson
The Sheriff's Son
Beulah Rutherford
A Man And His Money
Betty Dalrymple
Breed of Men
Ruth Fellows
Branding Broadway
Mary Lee
Madame Bo-Peep
A Woman's Awakening
Paula Letchworth
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Princess Beloved (Attarea) (Babylonian Story)
Martha's Vindication
Dorothea
The Lamb
Mary
A Yankee from the West
Gunhild, a Norwegian Girl