Madge Kennedy
Know for: Acting
Born: 1891-04-19
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Houseboat (1958)
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
Three miles out (1924)
Molly Townsend is on the eve of her marriage to Luis Riccardi, a steamship man who secretly is a bootlegger. She follows John Locke, the man she...
Main Street to Broadway (1953)
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for...
W.C. Fields: Straight Up (1986)
Documentary directed by Joseph Adamson.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are...
Lust for Life (1956)
An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and...
The Baby Maker (1970)
Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of...
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
India. The spoilt and stubborn Edwina Esketh, comes to a small town with her husband. She falls in love with an indian doctor, Dr. Safti. She also...
Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand (1918)
The Kaiser is playing cards with King Albert of Italy, who loses, but is rescued by Miss Liberty Loan.
The Marrying Kind (1952)
Florence and Chet Keefer have had a troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing the judge encourages them to remember the good...
Dollars and Sense (1920)
Destitute, Hazel Farron is offered employment and comfort from bakery owner David Rogers. When Rogers' bakery slips into debt, he collapses from...
Three Bad Sisters (1956)
Following the death of a wealthy man, his three daughters squabble about who should be the principal heiress.
The Catered Affair (1956)
An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958)
Two bunglers (Tom Ewell, Mickey Rooney) rob a bank and buy a racehorse, then try to rob another bank.
The Truth (1920)
Becky Warder constantly indulges in the telling of little white lies. In an innocent effort to ease the troubled marriage of her quarreling friends...
Oh Mary Be Careful (1921)
"Mary Meacham, the most popular girl in college, goes to live with her maiden aunt, Miss Myra. Auntie is a man-hater who has various theories for...
A Perfect Lady (1918)
Dancer Lucille Le Jambon (whose real name is Lucy Higgins) loses her job when the morals committee of Sycamore, Kansas, headed by the self-righteous...
The Danger Game (1918)
Wealthy Clytie Rogers writes a novel in which a society girl commits a burglary, but it is "roasted" by critic Jimmy Gilpin, who writes that her...
Marathon Man (1976)
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (1967)
Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physically and mentally strong, he searches for a...
Let's Make Love (1960)
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order...
North by Northwest (1959)
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
The Highest Bidder (1921)
Society miss Sally Raeburn is left penniless and is helped out by an older woman. The woman makes it clear that to repay her, Sally must marry...
Plunderers of Painted Flats (1959)
To scare the squatters from the cattle country he claims as his own, rancher Ed Sampson orders the Martin farm house burned. Galt Martin is killed,...
The Purple Highway (1923)
Two inmates and a cleaning girl at a home for struggling artists achieve success and fame when they pool their talents and produce a smash hit...
Baby Mine (1917)
Madge Kennedy plays a young bride whose husband walks out after a quarrel. Hoping to make him come crawling back, Kennedy pretends to have given...
The Fair Pretender (1918)
Madge Kennedy stars as a young woman of modest means, posing as a millionairess in order to attend a hoity-toity society ball, where she hopes to...
The Day of the Locust (1975)
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with...
Nearly Married (1917)
Silent comedy, based on a 1913 stage play of the same title.
Leave It to Susan (1919)
A Clarence G. Badger silent cowboy western kidnapping mistaken identity romantic comedy, based on a story by Rex Taylor; about a rich woman who gets...
Oh, Baby! (1926)
Billy, a diminutive manager of prizefighters, is priming Jim Stone for the heavyweight championship when Charley Burns (Arthur Graham?) discloses...
Through the Wrong Door (1919)
A young woman goes to visit friends but mistakenly rings at the wrong address. She is greeted and taken in out of the storm by a handsome young man...
The Blooming Angel (1920)
Floss Brannon, expelled from college for mischievous conduct, marries Chester Framm, a struggling young student who aspires to be an orator. When...
Lying Wives (1925)
Duplicitous Patricia Chase schemes to break up the new marriage of Margery and Wallace Graham because she yearns for Wallace despite her marriage to...