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Born Signe Auen in Spokane, Washington, she was 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.
Seena Owen. Seena Owen was born in Spokane, WA, on Nov. 14, 1894. Her first film was A Yankee from the West (1915) under the name of Signe Auen, when she was 21. The following year she appeared (as "Attarea") in D.W. Griffith 's epic Intolerance (1916).
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Feb 11, 2007 · Spokane native Seena Owen starred in the 1916 silent film, "Intolerance." Below: A page out of "Famous Film Folk" tells the story of Owen, who was born in 1894 (not in 1896, as reported in the...
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.
Actress, Motion Picture Screen Writer. Born Signe Auen in Spokane, Washington, she performed on stage with the Alcazar Stock Company in San Francisco, California before entering the movies with the Kalem Company in 1914.
Dec 30, 2011 · Seena Owen was born Signe Auen on November 14, 1894 in Spokane, Washington. She was the youngest of three children, brother Auden and sister Lillie, born to Jens and Karen Auen who had come to the U.S. from Denmark about five years prior to Seena's birth.
Mar 29, 2017 · Seena Owen had been known as Signe Auen when she was growing up in Spokane. She later moved to California for what she called her “long, bitter struggle to stardom.”
