Cleo Madison

Cleo Madison

Born: March 25, 1883
Died: March 11, 1964
in Bloomington, Illinois, USA

Movies for Cleo Madison...

The Roughneck
Title: The Roughneck
Character: Anne Delaney
Released: November 30, 1924
Type: Movie
Beautiful Felicity Arden, is forced by a storm to take refuge in Mad Marrat's dwelling on the South Sea Isle.
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Unseen Hands
Title: Unseen Hands
Character: Mataoka
Released: May 25, 1924
Type: Movie
A wealthy mine owner's wife gets him to hire Jean Scholast, a footloose adventurer, as a reward for saving her. Unbeknown to the wife, Scholast is a fortune hunter and soon poisons the husband and marries the wife.
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True As Steel
Title: True As Steel
Character: Mrs. Parry
Released: April 20, 1924
Type: Movie
Successful middle-aged manufacturer Frank Parry takes a business trip to New York, where he becomes infatuated with Eva Boutelle, manager of the Swansea Cotton Mills. For a time, their affair develops, but Eva remains true to her husband ...
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Gold Madness
Title: Gold Madness
Released: October 2, 1923
Type: Movie
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The Dangerous Age
Title: The Dangerous Age
Character: Mary Emerson
Released: February 4, 1923
Type: Movie
Married for 22 years, Mary Emerson treats her husband, John, more like a son than a husband. He is stung by her rebuffs and, therefore, succumbs to the youthful charms of Gloria Sanderson, whom he meets on a business trip. But just after he mails a letter to Mary telling her that he will not return, John finds Gloria in the arms of her fiancé.
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A Woman's Woman
Title: A Woman's Woman
Character: Iris Starr
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
A woman finds herself being a unpaid skivvy to her husband, two daughters and her son.
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Ladies Must Live
Title: Ladies Must Live
Character: Mrs. Lincourt
Released: October 29, 1921
Type: Movie
A societal romance drama based on an Alice Duer Miller novel.
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The Great Radium Mystery
Title: The Great Radium Mystery
Character: Countess Nada
Released: October 13, 1919
Type: Movie
Criminals steal a radium-powered tank from an inventor. His heiress and a government agent take up the chase.
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The Romance of Tarzan
Title: The Romance of Tarzan
Character: The Other Woman
Released: October 17, 1918
Type: Movie
Tarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have been killed. The Greystoke relatives return to England, the Porters (Jane's family) goes to their ranch near San Francisco. Tarzan shows up in a tuxedo and rescues Jane from outlaws...
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Black Orchids
Title: Black Orchids
Character: Marie de Severac / Zoraida
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Frivolous young Marie de Severac is frightened into following a more virtuous path, when her father relates a story in which an equally frivolous woman is entombed alive. The movie was Rex Ingram’s directorial debut, and he later remade the film as Trifling Women in 1922. Black Orchids is considered to be a lost film.
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The Chalice of Sorrow
Title: The Chalice of Sorrow
Character: Lorelei
Released: October 9, 1916
Type: Movie
Isabel Clifford sits to be painted. Her artist is Marion Leslie, a man distracted by matters of the flesh. Not Isabel’s flesh but Lorelei’s, the same Lorelei who wows the corrupt police chief, Sarpina, with her virtuoso vocal performances. She is Mexico’s most celebrated opera diva, Marion’s fiancé, and Sarpina’s passion, yet she boils with petty suspicion over Marion’s friendship with Isabel.
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Eleanor's Catch
Title: Eleanor's Catch
Character: Eleanor McGrady
Released: July 1, 1916
Type: Movie
ELEANOR'S CATCH is a delightful short, directed by and starring Cleo Madison. A successful actress, Madison was one of many women who directed films at Universal, particularly in the mid 1910s. In this two-reeler, she stars as a young city girl dragged into a life of crime by a ne’er-do-well suitor. A terrific surprise ending gives Eleanor and Cleo an early claim to promoting women’s equality in the workforce.
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Her Bitter Cup
Title: Her Bitter Cup
Character: Rethna
Released: April 17, 1916
Type: Movie
Rethna works hard to organize her fellow factory employees against the miserly, uncaring owner, Henry Burke. Then, realizing that she needs money to fight Burke, she begins an affair with his unscrupulous son Harry.
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A Soul Enslaved
Title: A Soul Enslaved
Character: Jane
Released: January 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Tired of poverty, Jane finally accepts the advances of Ambrose, the wealthy owner of the factory in which she works, and becomes his mistress. Years later, long after she has left Ambrose, Jane falls in love with Richard Newton, whose own past, like hers, hardly stands out as scrupulous. They get married and have a child, but then Richard finds out that Jane had been a kept woman, and insists on a separation.
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Her Defiance
Title: Her Defiance
Character: Adeline Gabler
Released: January 14, 1916
Type: Movie
A woman is deserted by her wealthy young lover.
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The Power of Fascination
Title: The Power of Fascination
Character: Juanita
Released: December 10, 1915
Type: Movie
A dramatic one-act film that takes place in Mexico. Juanita, who lives on a dilapidated ranch, has to marry a wealthy landowner, but changes her mind at the last moment when a young American comes along; he offers her money to travel through her country. She falls in love with him. When the Mexican finds out about this, he tries to kill both of them, but a friend comes to the rescue.
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The Ring of Destiny
Title: The Ring of Destiny
Character: Dolly
Released: November 18, 1915
Type: Movie
Jack and Dolly, his sister, live together in the west. On Jack's birthday, Dolly presents him with a peculiar ring. The brother and sister attend a masquerade ball that evening, each dressed in the other's clothes. Dolly, being taken for a man, meets Big Bill, a new ranchman, and he offers her a cigar, which she tries to smoke. Jack sees her in distress, and coming to her rescue, is introduced as the sister. The next morning Jack leaves to look over his stock. While riding through the sage brush, he takes a shot at a rabbit and the bullet lands near the spot where a cattle rustler is plying his unlawful trade. The cattle rustler and Jack meet. The former believes that Jack tried to kill him and a fight follows. Jack is killed.
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A Mother's Atonement
Title: A Mother's Atonement
Character: Alice
Released: October 17, 1915
Type: Movie
A man recalls his earlier days when he was married and his wife cheated on him.
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Alas and Alack
Title: Alas and Alack
Character: The Fisherwife and Fishermaid
Released: October 10, 1915
Type: Movie
A fishwife tells her young daughter a fairy story about a princess imprisoned by a hunchback in a seashell, a story that parallels her own life.
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The Sin of Olga Brandt
Title: The Sin of Olga Brandt
Character: Olga's Invalid Sister
Released: January 3, 1915
Type: Movie
Olga Brandt, a stenographer in the office of Stephen Leslie, an attorney, receives a pitifully small salary. In addition she is handicapped by having the sole care of an invalid sister.
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Damon and Pythias
Title: Damon and Pythias
Character: Hermione
Released: November 23, 1914
Type: Movie
The friendship of Damon, the senator, and Pythias, the soldier, is famous in Ancient Syracuse.
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The Trey o' Hearts
Title: The Trey o' Hearts
Released: August 4, 1914
Type: Movie
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The Severed Hand
Title: The Severed Hand
Character: Nan Dawson
Released: July 17, 1914
Type: Movie
The Severed Hand, a society of Italian criminals and blackmailers, swear to kill Danny Dawson, who has turned traitor.
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Samson
Title: Samson
Character: Philistine
Released: April 30, 1914
Type: Movie
Samson, an Israelite whose enormous strength is legendary, falls in love with Zorah, a Philistine, and marries her, overcoming his father Manoah's objections.
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Sealed Orders
Title: Sealed Orders
Character: Katie
Released: March 30, 1914
Type: Movie
Crooknose is a child of the slums. The slums his mother, dark alleys his father and his family is composed of the crook, the gambler, the demi-monde and the policeman. But despite these family connections Crooknose is organically a decent fellow.
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Cross Purposes
Title: Cross Purposes
Character: Cleo
Released: December 5, 1913
Type: Movie
Cleo drops her bonnet while sitting on the wall. Young Wally picks it up; their eyes meet and the old, old tale follows.
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The Heart of a Cracksman
Title: The Heart of a Cracksman
Character: Marcia - Carlton's Niece
Released: November 7, 1913
Type: Movie
Carlton, disapproving of his dissipated son and the latter's scheming wife, on his death-bed makes his will in favor of his devoted niece, Marcia. Hearing of this the previous couple plan to balk the father; their scheming is overheard by the cracksman, who has stealthily entered the house. The son and his wife retire and the cracksman creeps upstairs and enters Marcia's room. Affected by her beauty and innocence as she lays sleeping, he determines to assist her; following the son into the sick man's room he snatches the stolen will from his hand.