Madame Sul-Te-Wan

Madame Sul-Te-Wan

Born: March 7, 1873
Died: February 1, 1959
in Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Movies for Madame Sul-Te-Wan...

Horrible Horror
Title: Horrible Horror
Character: Tahama in 'King of the Zombies'
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A collection of trailers and previews from various low-budget horror films of the '50s and '60s.
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Tarzan and the Trappers
Title: Tarzan and the Trappers
Character: Witch Woman
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Tarzan goes up against a baddie by the name of Schroeder, who is trapping animals and selling them illegally to zoos. A twist is thrown into the plot when Schroeder's brother, with the help of money-hungry trader Lapin, hunts a different kind of quarry, human game. Now Tarzan must not only fight to save the animals of the jungle, but he must also save himself. Three episodes of a failed TV series edited for theater release.
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Revenge of the Zombies
Title: Revenge of the Zombies
Character: Beulah
Released: September 17, 1943
Type: Movie
When Dr. Von Altermann's wife Lila dies mysteriously at his spooky mansion her relations suspect murder. They also suspect the doctor is turning her into a zombie, to join the army of living dead he hopes to devote to the Nazi cause. However, Lila, though dead, has developed a will of her own.
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King of the Zombies
Title: King of the Zombies
Character: Tahama
Released: May 14, 1941
Type: Movie
During World War II, a small plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The quick-witted yet easily-frightened manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and ghosts.
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Love Thy Neighbor
Title: Love Thy Neighbor
Character: Lady McBeth
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
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Maryland
Title: Maryland
Character: Naomi
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
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Safari
Title: Safari
Character: Native Woman
Released: June 14, 1940
Type: Movie
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds unplanned adventure in her sudden love for Jim, ultimately forsaking her future with the Baron for the joys of true love.
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Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Title: Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Character: Ruby (uncredited)
Released: August 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
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Tell No Tales
Title: Tell No Tales
Character: Jim Alley's Mother (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1939
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
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Kentucky
Title: Kentucky
Character: Lily
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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The Affairs of Annabel
Title: The Affairs of Annabel
Character: Benzedrina (uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity.
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In Old Chicago
Title: In Old Chicago
Character: Hattie
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
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Maid of Salem
Title: Maid of Salem
Character: Tituba
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
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Imitation of Life
Title: Imitation of Life
Character: Cook (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
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Black Moon
Title: Black Moon
Character: Ruva
Released: June 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
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Heaven on Earth
Title: Heaven on Earth
Character: Voodoo Sue
Released: November 27, 1931
Type: Movie
A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him.
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The Pagan Lady
Title: The Pagan Lady
Character: Carla the Servant
Released: September 7, 1931
Type: Movie
Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders up a drink that sounds like something you'd consume on a dare. He drinks the concoction down in one swallow and also manages to outsmart Dot's boss and his rum-running hooligans. You see, Dingo is a bootlegger himself. He literally sweeps the lady off her feet and they set up housekeeping in a tropical hotel full of colorful characters, some of whom are in the bootlegging business too.
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The Thoroughbred
Title: The Thoroughbred
Character: Sacharine
Released: August 9, 1930
Type: Movie
Riley and Donovan, racehorse owners and trainers who have been rivals and enemies for years, seek to befriend Tod Taylor, a jockey, and Ham, a retainer. Tod elects to work for Riley, incurring the enmity of rival jockeys. Riley's daughter, Colleen, sympathizes with Tod and cares for his bruises. Trying to befriend Donovan, Tod wins a match between Riley's colt, Reckless, and Donovan's best horse; and many more victories bolster his confidence. His head is turned by Margie, a come-on girl for Drake, a gambler. She precipitates his dissipation, and Tod is induced to throw the race to avoid a jail sentence.
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Sarah and Son
Title: Sarah and Son
Character: Belloc's Maid (Uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1930
Type: Movie
A ne'er-do-well husband, after years of abusing his wife, disappears with their son, and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife, now a world-famous opera singer, finally has enough time and money to begin a search for him.
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Thunderbolt
Title: Thunderbolt
Character: Bit Role
Released: June 20, 1929
Type: Movie
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl, without knowing of their relationship. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Character: Slave at Wedding (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1927
Type: Movie
In 1856, slave Eliza plans to marry George with the consent of the Shelbys, her masters, but George's owner prevents the wedding. A few years later, Eliza flees with her son, Harry, after learning the Shelbys plan to hand them over to a crooked creditor to prevent foreclosure. George also escapes and goes on the run while Eliza and Harry are captured and brought back home. Mother and son are separated as George tries to find them both.
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The Narrow Street
Title: The Narrow Street
Character: Easter
Released: January 4, 1925
Type: Movie
Simon Haldane works in the office of the Faulkner Iron Works, but he has been raised by his two maiden aunts in an extremely sheltered manner and is basically afraid of everyone and everything. One morning he finds a strange girl shivering in his bedroom, and although he's terrified of her, he manages to call a doctor for her. This starts a rumor that Simon is married. Complications ensue.
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The Lightning Rider
Title: The Lightning Rider
Character: Mammy
Released: May 18, 1924
Type: Movie
A bandit known as The Black Mask is terrorizing the countryside around the California border town of Caliboro. When word spreads that the Mask's gang is going to hit town, the town priest turns over the church's money to the local sheriff for safekeeping.
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Manslaughter
Title: Manslaughter
Character: Prison Inmate (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
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The Show
Title: The Show
Character: Maid (uncredited)
Released: March 19, 1922
Type: Movie
A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.
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Who's Your Father?
Title: Who's Your Father?
Character: Black Mother (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1918
Type: Movie
This comedy starts with the rescue by a cowboy's dog of a baby that is floating down a gorge toward a cataract in a tiny crib. The cowboy takes the foundling to his cabin. Then the cowboy finds himself not only beset with the troubles of feeding an infant, but also is the object of a spinster who, by claiming the baby, hopes to compromise the cowboy
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Old Wives for New
Title: Old Wives for New
Character: Viola's Maid (uncredited)
Released: May 18, 1918
Type: Movie
Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.
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Tarzan of the Apes
Title: Tarzan of the Apes
Character: Esmeralda - Jane's Maid (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1918
Type: Movie
A female ape takes to mothering the orphaned boy (Tarzan) and raises him over the course of many years until a rescue mission is finally launched and the search party combs the jungle for the long-time missing Lord Greystoke. But then, one of the search members, Jane Porter, gets separated from the group and comes face to face with fearsome wild animals. Tarzan saves her from harm just in the knick of time and love begins to blossom.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Title: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character: Girl at the Marriage Market (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1916
Type: Movie
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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Hoodoo Ann
Title: Hoodoo Ann
Character: Black Cindy
Released: March 26, 1916
Type: Movie
A teenage orphan (who believes herself to be "hoodooed") is taken in by a childless couple and quickly falls for the boy next door; Her luck seems to have changed. But the idyll is broken up after a trip to the movies-- It seems the 'hoodoo' has returned after she tries to replicate what she'd seen on the screen.
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The Birth of a Nation
Title: The Birth of a Nation
Character: Black Woman
Released: February 8, 1915
Type: Movie
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.