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Described by one critic as "limpid-eyed," brunette Mabel Van Buren was Cecil B. DeMille's Girl of the Golden West (1915) and played Mrs. Warren in his screen version of brother William's Broadway hit The Warrens of Virginia (1915). A pioneer screen actress, Van Buren had begun her film career with the Biograph company in the very early 1910s, but became a star for Famous Players-Lasky in 1914. Stardom proved brief, however, and she was already playing supporting roles by the latter part of the decade. A dress extra after the changeover to sound, Van Buren can be glimpsed as one of the party guests in Mississippi (1935). She was the wife of silent screen actor/director James Gordon.