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Alice Joyce (October 1, 1890 - October 9, 1955) was an actress born in Kansas City, Missouri, United States best known for her Hollywood cinema roles in the 1910s and 1920s, perhaps most famously "The Green Goddess
".

Leap to Stardom

It was director Sidney Olcott at the Kalem Company in New York city who gave Alice Joyce her first chance, casting her in his 1910 production, "The Deacon's Daughter." She was eventually sent to work under director Kenean Buel on the West Coast after Kalem acquired the old Essanay Studios property in East Hollywood in October of 1913.

Marriages

Alice Joyce was linked throughout her career to well known men in Hollywood circles. She married three times, the first time in 1914 to actor Tom Moore with whom she had a daughter, Alice. They divorced in 1920 and that same year she married wealthy hotelier James B. Regan with whom she had her second child. They divorced in 1932 and her last marriage came the following year to film director Clarence Brown but they divorced in 1945.

Retirement

Joyce was known as "The Madonna of the Screen" for her striking features and presence. She made her last movie in 1930 after which she and ex-husband Tom Moore worked a late vaudeville circuit for a time.

On her passing in 1955, Alice Joyce was interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California.

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