Career
Born Alice Beatrice Calhoun in Cleveland, Ohio, she made her film debut in an uncredited role in 1918 and went on to appear in another forty-seven films between then and 1929. As a star with Vitagraph in New York City, she moved with the company when it relocated to Hollywood. In the comedy, The Manitoba Next Door (1923), Calhoun plays Bonnie Bell.
A critic complimented her on being pretty and playing her role successfully.The Manitoba From Brodney"s (1923) is a movie which displays the fencing talent of actor J. Warren Kerrigan.
Directed by David Smith for Vitagraph, the film is based on a novel by George Barr McCutcheon. Calhoun plays Princess Genevra.
Anna Q. Nilsson and Norman Kerry are part of a cast in which Calhoun plays an artist"s Model (person). Among her other movies titles are Pampered Youth (1925), The Power of the Weak (1926), Savage Passions (1927), and Bride of the Desert (1929).
Like a number of other stars at the time, her voice did not lend itself to sound and her one performance in a talkie came in an uncredited role in 1934.
Calhoun died in Los Angeles in 1966 of cancer, aged 65. Foreign her contribution to the motion picture industry, Alice Calhoun has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6815 Hollywood Boulevard