- (1919 - 1938) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1919) Stage Play: Tumble In. Musical comedy.
- (1921) Stage Play: Liliom. Written by Ferenc Molnár. Music arranged by Deems Taylor. Scenic Design and costume design by Lee Simonson. Directed by Frank Reicher. Garrick Theatre: 20 Apr 1921- Jun 1921 (closing date unknown/65 performances). Cast: Hortense Alden (as "Marie"), Lela May Aultman, Robert Babcock, Willard Bowman, Walton Butterfield, Evelyn Chard, Lawrence Chrow, Howard Claney, John Crump, Anne de Chantal, Frances Diamond, Dudley Digges (as "The Sparrow"), Katherine Fahnestock, George Frenger, Ruth L. Gumming, Lilian Kingsbury, Eva Le Gallienne (as "Julie"), Margaret Mosier, Elizabeth Parker, Albert Perry, Erskine Sanford (as "Captain/First Policeman of the Beyond"), Joseph Schildkraut (as "Liliom"), Janet Scott, Maurice Sommers, Edgar Stehli (as "First Mounted Policeman/The Richly Dressed Man"), Gerald Stopp, Henry Travers (as "Wolf Berkowitz"), Lillian Tuchman, Jacob Weiser, Helen Westley (as "Mrs. Muskat"), Marion M. Winsten, Philip Wood. Produced by The Theatre Guild. Note: Work was the basis for Broadway play "Carousel", Rodgers and Hammerstein's famous musical version of "Liliom", Marie became Carrie Pipperidge. Produced on film as Carousel (1956).
- (1922) Stage Play: It's a Boy! Comedy.
- (1923) Stage Play: As You Like It. Comedy (revival). Written by William Shakespeare.
- (1924) Stage Play: The Locked Door. Comedy. Written by Martin Lawton. Directed by Priestly Morrison. Cort Theatre: 19 Jun 1924- Jul 1924 (closing date unknown/20 performances). Cast: Hortense Alden (as "Marie"), John Davidson (as "Henri"), Reginald Mason (as "Frank Babbington"), Florence Shirley (as "Muriel Walling"), Charles Trowbridge (as "Richard Walling"), Eleanor Woodruff (as "Julia Babbington"). Produced by Jacob A. Weiser and Bela Blau.
- (1924) Stage Play: The Firebrand. Comedy. Written by Edwin Justus Mayer. Morosco Theatre: 15 Oct 1924- May 1925 (closing date unknown/261 performances). Cast: Hortense Alden (as "Emelia"), Dorothy Bicknell, Nana Bryant, Kenneth Dana, Eleanor Ewing, Wallace Fortune, George Drury Hart, Marie Haynes, Scott Hirschberg, Allyn Joslyn (as "Polverino"), J. Ellis Kirkman, Florence Mason, Charles McCarthy, Frank Morgan (as "Alessandro, the Duke of Florence"), Philip Niblette, Edward Quinn, Edward G. Robinson (as "Ottaviano"), Joseph Schildkraut (as "Benvenuto Cellini"), Wilbert Shields, Roland Winters (as "Gentleman of the Court/Soldier"). Produced by Laurence Schwab, Horace Liveright and Frank Mandel.
- (1925) Stage Play: Arabesque. Music by Ruth White Warfield. Written by Cloyd Head and Eunice Tietjens. Scenic Design by Norman Bel Geddes and Cleon Throckmorton. Choreographed by Michi Itow. Directed by Norman Bel Geddes. National Theatre: 20 Oct 1925- 7 Nov 1925 (23 performances). Cast: Hortense Alden (as "Laila, A Bedouine from the desert"), Hamad Attab, Geraldine Ballard, Merlin Ballard, Mohammed Basher, Mohammed Ben Ali, Charles Berkley, Hamad Bisher, Clayton Braun, John Brewster, Florence Brinton, Earle Caddock, Conrad Cantzen (as "Baba Youssef"), Chief Whitehawk, Curtis Cooksey (as "Ahmed Ben Tahar"), Bus Daniels, Ruth Daniels, Boyd Davis (as "Tall Bedouin, to whom belongs Laila"), Claude Dougal, Anna Duncan, Rona Fray, B.A. Fripp, M. Garboat, James Gaylor, Etienne Girardot (as "The Caid of Nadour"), Lackaye Grant, Gladys Green, Ali Halel, Robert Halloway, Victor Hammond, Mustapha Hantoot, Ismut Hassen, Elsbeth Herbert, Mohammed Houssain, Yuji Itow, Larry Jason, Irene Joseph, Helen Judson, Raphael Kados, Helen Kim, Jacob Kingsbury (as "Chief Bedouin"), Naoe Kondo, Sarat Lahiri, Raise Lehassen, Mactar Lehedder, Bela Lugosi (as "Sheik of Hammam, a Minor Official"), Louise Mainland, Beine Makter, Yetta Malamude, Kay McKay, Hardwick Nevin, George Offerman Jr., Marie Offerman, Hamad B. Omar, Logan Paul, Nancy Pethbridge, Julia Ralph (as "The Sheik's Mother, Who Would Live in Tunis"), Edward Ray, Herman O. Roberts, Samuel Rosen, Prince Singh, William Skavlan, Sara Sothern, Philip Spector, George Thornton, Roland Twombley (as "Cobbler"), Ben Welden, Olive West, Elsie Winslow. Produced by Norman Bel Geddes and Richard Herndon.
- (1926) Stage Play: Ghosts. Drama (revival). Written by Henrik Ibsen. Directed by Dudley Digges. Comedy Theatre: 16 Mar 1926- Mar 1926 (closing date unknown/34 performances). Cast: Hortense Alden (as "Regina Engstrand, Mrs. Alving's maid"), Edward Fielding, J.M. Kerrigan, José Ruben, Lucile Watson. Produced by The Actors Theatre.
- (1930) Stage Play: A Month in the Country. Written by Ivan Turgenev. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre: 17 Mar 1930- May 1930 (closing date unknown/71 performances). Cast: Hortense Alden (as "Katya"), Elliott Cabot, Dudley Digges (as "Ignaty Illich Shpigelsky"), John T. Doyle, Eda Heinemann (as "Lizaveta Bogdanovna"), Alexander Kirkland, Charles Kraus, Alla Nazimova (as "Natalya Petrovna"), Minna Phillips (as ("Anna"), Eunice Stoddard (as "Verochka"), Henry Travers (as "Afanasy Ivanovich Bolshintsov"), Louis Veda, Eddie Wragge. Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- (1930) Stage Play: Lysistrata. Comedy (revival). Written by Aristophanes. Book adapted by Gilbert Seldes. Music by Leo Ornstein. Choreographed by Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. Production Design by Norman Bel Geddes. Directed by Norman Bel Geddes. 44th Street Theatre: 5 Jun 1930- Jan 1931 (closing date unknown/252 performances). Cast: Hortense Alden (as "Myrrhine"), José Limon (as "The Guard"), James McCallion (as "The Child"), Burton McEvilly (as "Second Young Man, Nicias/Dancer"), Nancy McKnight (as "Third Athenian Woman"), Owen Meech (as "Fourth Old Man"), Gwendolyn Mervin (as "Dancer"), Thomas Moody (as "Old Men's Chorus"), Morton Moore (as "Third Senator"), Marion Morehouse (as "Second Corinthian Woman"), Mary Morris (as "Leader of Old Women"), Pauline Potter (as "Old Women's Chorus"), Elsie Rand (as "Dancer"), Elizabeth Rechelle (as "Old Women's Chorus"), Houston Richards (as "Second Old Man"), Albert Robinson (as "Old Men's Chorus"), Miriam Schiller (as "First Spartan Woman/Dancer"), Betty Schlaffer (as "Sixth Athenian Woman/Dancer"), Lucian Scott (as "First Policeman/Dancer"), Maud Sinclair (as "Old Women's Chorus"), Helen Strumlauf (as "Second Athenian Woman/Dancer"), Elliot Sullivan (as "Clerk/Dancer"), Ernest Truex (as "Kinesias"), Neville Westman (as "Rhodope"), Nydia Westman (as "Kalonike"), Thornton Whitney (as "Fifth Senator"), June Wilkinson (as "Dancer"), George J. Williams (as "Old Men's Chorus"), Howard Wilson (as "Second Policeman/Dancer"), Ian Wolfe (as "First Old Man"). Produced by Philadelphia Theatre Association Inc.
- (1930) Stage Play: Grand Hotel. Drama. Written by William Absalom Drake. From the German of Vicki Baum. Assistant Director: Fritz Feld. Directed by Herman Shumlin. National Theatre: 13 Nov 1930- Dec 1931 (closing date unknown/459 performances). Cast: Hortense Alden (as "Flaemmchen"), Lester Alden, Walter Baldwin (as "Desk Clerk"), Audrey Bauer, Romaine Callender, Fred Eckhart, Harry Hanlon, Stephen Irving, Sam Jaffe (as "Kringelein"), Eugenie Leontovich, Richard Lloyd, William Nunn, Raffaella Ottiano, Florence Pendleton, Clarence Rock, Sig Ruman (as "Preysing"), 'Harry D. Southard Justice Zinnowitz"), Joseph Calleia (as "Chauffeur") (credited as Joseph Spurin-Calleia), Frank W. Taylor, Albert Dekker (as "Baron von Gaigern") (credited as Albert Van Dekker), Walter Vonnegut. Produced by Herman Shumlin. Produced in association with Harry Moses. Notes: Joseph Calleia also served as the production's General Stage Manager with Walter Baldwin as Stage Manager. Produced by MGM as Grand Hotel (1932) as a lavish star-studded production. It became a huge hit.
- (1933) Stage Play: Thunder on the Left. Fantasy. Written by Jean Ferguson Black. Based on the novel by Christopher Morley. Directed by Anton Bundsmann. Maxine Elliott's Theatre: 31 Oct 1933- Nov 1933 (closing date unknown/31 performances). Cast: Hortense Alden (as "Joyce Clyde"), Eleanor Audley (as "Ruth Brook"), Charita Bauer (as "Rose"), James Bell, Jeanne Dante, Ethel Delveccio, Patricia Goodwin, Edna Hagan, Louis Jean Heydt (as "George Granville"), Otto Hulett (as "Ben Brook"), Eugene Low, Cele McLaughlin, Mary McQuade, Frankie Thomas (as "Martin in Play"), Katherine Warren. Produced by Henry B. Forbes.
- (1934) Stage Play: But Not For Love. Drama.
- (1937) Stage Play: Arms for Venus. Comedy. Written by Randolph Carter. Incidental music by Philip James. Directed by Francis Hartman Markoe. John Golden Theatre: 11 Mar 1937- Mar 1937 (closing date unknown/12 performances). Cast: Hortense Alden (as "Crysis"), Felton Bickley (as "Habinas"), Alan Davis (as "Cainus"), Beatrice De Neergaard (as "Quartilla"), Walter Klavun (as "Nero"). Produced by Mary Hone.
- (1938) Stage Play: Here Come the Clowns. Drama. Written by Philip Barry. Scenic Design by John Koenig. Stage Manager: James Hagan. Lighting Design by Feder. Directed by Robert Milton. Booth Theatre: 7 Dec 1938- Feb 1939 (closing date unknown/88 performances). Cast: Hortense Alden (as "Gert Marble") [final Broadway role], Jerry Austin, Ralph Bunker (as "Ma Speedy"), Leo Chalzel (as "Max Pabst"), Russell Collins (as "John Dickinson"), Eddie Dowling (as "Dan Clancy"), Doris Dudley, Madge Evans (as "Connie Ryan"), Frank Gaby (as "Jim Marble"), James Hagan (as "Walter"), Eve March, Thomas Palmer, Bertram Thorn (as "Val Gurney"), A.H. Van Buren (as "Freddie Ballantine"). Produced by Eddie Dowling.
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