Madge Bellamy

Madge Bellamy

Born: June 30, 1899
Died: January 24, 1990
in Hillsboro, Texas, USA
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Madge Bellamy (June 30, 1899 – January 24, 1990) was an American film actress who was a popular leading lady in the 1920s and early 1930s. Her career declined in the sound era, and ended following a romantic scandal in the 1940s.

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Northwest Trail
Title: Northwest Trail
Character: Mrs. Yeager
Released: November 30, 1945
Type: Movie
Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an illegal mining operation there that is smuggling gold across the border, his superior Sgt. Means orders him to leave.
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Crack-Up
Title: Crack-Up
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
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Under Your Spell
Title: Under Your Spell
Character: Miss Stafford
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
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Champagne Charlie
Title: Champagne Charlie
Character: Woman in Cab
Released: May 6, 1936
Type: Movie
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
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The Daring Young Man
Title: The Daring Young Man
Character: Sally
Released: July 17, 1935
Type: Movie
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
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The Great Hotel Murder
Title: The Great Hotel Murder
Character: Tessie
Released: February 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.
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Charlie Chan in London
Title: Charlie Chan in London
Character: Becky Fothergill
Released: September 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor. Pamela is convinced of his innocence.
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Gigolettes of Paris
Title: Gigolettes of Paris
Character: Suzanne Ricord
Released: October 5, 1933
Type: Movie
Silent screen favorite Madge Bellamy starred in this low-budget melodrama written and directed by character actor Alphonse Martell. In love with a rich customer, Count Albert Valraine (Theodore Von Eltz), salesgirl Suzanne Ricord accepts his engagement ring, but when she fails to understand "the rules of the game," as he puts it, the caddish Valraine demands that she return the bauble.
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Gordon of Ghost City
Title: Gordon of Ghost City
Character: Mary Gray
Released: August 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl trying to run her grandfather's gold mine and other outlaws who are trying to stop her.
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Riot Squad
Title: Riot Squad
Character: Lil Daley
Released: July 25, 1933
Type: Movie
The constant battling over the same woman gets two detectives demoted to what's considered the toughest job in the Police Department--the Riot Squad.
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White Zombie
Title: White Zombie
Character: Madeleine Short Parker
Released: July 28, 1932
Type: Movie
In Haiti, a wealthy landowner convinces a sorcerer to lure the American woman he has fallen for away from her fiance, only to have the madman decide to keep the woman for himself, as a zombie.
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 8
Title: The Voice of Hollywood No. 8
Released: March 24, 1930
Type: Movie
This time it's Ben Turpin as the nominal announcer, and several well known performers appear, including Myrna Loy. Madge Bellamy sings "The Last Rose of Summer" in a very sweet voice, and there are a couple of canned gag sequences.
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Fugitives
Title: Fugitives
Character: Alice Carroll
Released: January 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Nightclub singer Alice Carroll is found in the office of club owner Al Barrow, who is lying dead on the floor. Alice has been overheard threatening to kill Barrow rather than give in to his advances. She protests her innocence, but the District Attorney doesn't believe her and charges her with Barrow's murder. However, things aren't quite as cut-and-dried as the D.A. believes them to be.
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Soft Living
Title: Soft Living
Character: Nancy Woods
Released: February 5, 1928
Type: Movie
Nancy Woods, secretary to a divorce lawyer, is tantalized by the idea of collecting alimony payments, she marries Stockney Webb with the intention of fleecing him after the honeymoon. Realizing that he has been fooled, Webb determines to teach Nancy, whom he truly loves, a lesson in humility and wifely behavior by taking her to his cabin in the wilderness.
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Silk Legs
Title: Silk Legs
Released: December 18, 1927
Type: Movie
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Very Confidential
Title: Very Confidential
Character: Madge Murphy
Released: November 6, 1927
Type: Movie
A young lady impersonates a famous sportswoman while trying to win over a man.
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Life in Hollywood No. 7
Title: Life in Hollywood No. 7
Character: Herself
Released: August 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
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The Telephone Girl
Title: The Telephone Girl
Character: Kitty O'Brien
Released: March 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Telephone operator Kitty O'Brien can't help but get involved in the problems of her customers. Right now she is concerning herself with the well-being of Tom Blake, the honest son of crooked political boss Jim Blake.
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Ankles Preferred
Title: Ankles Preferred
Character: Nora
Released: February 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Nora, a department store clerk, is determined to succeed on the basis of her brain power despite her attractive ankles. She gets a job as model at the shop of McGuire and Goldberg, and they announce that Nora may be given a trip abroad if she persuades their financer to lend the partners additional funds. The financer, Hornsbee, becomes presumptuous, leading to an encounter between him and Barney, Nora's young suitor; and she is ultimately glad to accept Barney's modest attentions.
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Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl
Title: Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl
Character: Bertha Sloan
Released: December 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Bertha Sloan loses her job as a sewing-machine girl and subsequently is employed as telephone girl with a lingerie manufacturing company. She soon falls in love with the assistant shipping clerk, Roy Davis, and is promoted to chief model for the firm, owing to the patronage of Morton, the wealthy and wicked manager. Bertha is about to take a position in Paris as designer when Morton lures her to his home.
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Summer Bachelors
Title: Summer Bachelors
Character: Derry Thomas
Released: December 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Derry Thomas is a pretty girl from a good family who earns her own living, but is disillusioned about marriage and is firmly set against ever getting married. Nothing against men, just marriage. She is drawn into the company of some rich businessmen whose wives have gone away for the summer. Parties follow in New York nightclubs, road-houses, country clubs and fashionable estates. Situations and contradictions follow.
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Black Paradise
Title: Black Paradise
Character: Sylvia Douglas
Released: May 30, 1926
Type: Movie
In San Francisco, Sylvia Douglas and her fiancée, James Callahan, a reformed crook, make their getaway after Jim, disgusted with his inability to find a job, un-reforms and steals a diamond necklace. Graham, a detective, gives chase to a desolate island in the South Pacific where a rum-running gangster, Murdock, holds him captive. Callahan becomes infatuated with a native girl, Leona, and Sylvia turns to Graham for protection against the offensive Murdock. A volcano eruption causes problems for all.
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Sandy
Title: Sandy
Character: Sandy McNeil
Released: April 10, 1926
Type: Movie
Sandy McNeil adopts strictly unconventional jazz ethics and against the wishes of her parents runs with a fast young set. An auto breakdown after a party places her in a compromising situation, and she grudgingly marries a wealthy suitor of her father's choice. When her husband's cruelty results in the death of her child, she leaves him and meets Ramon, an architect with whom she becomes infatuated. The return of his former mistress causes her to seek refuge with her cousin Judith, where she falls in love with Douglas, Judith's sweetheart. As Sandy refuses to return to Ramon, he shoots her and then kills himself. Douglas, taking the blame for her sake, is tried for murder, but Sandy rises from her sickbed and confesses in court; she succumbs after restoring Judith to Douglas.
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The Golden Strain
Title: The Golden Strain
Character: Dixie Denniston
Released: December 27, 1925
Type: Movie
Lt. Milt Mulford graduates from West Point and is assigned to a cavalry outpost in the West, near an Apache reservation. One day the Apaches, tired of being cheated by a crooked Indian agent, break the reservation and Mulford is sent after them with a patrol. Unfortunately, he cracks under the pressure of his first firefight, and is thrown out of the army. His fiancé, disgusted, ends their engagement. He sets out to prove that he is not a coward and regain his fiancé's love.
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Lazybones
Title: Lazybones
Character: Kit
Released: November 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.
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Thunder Mountain
Title: Thunder Mountain
Character: Azalea
Released: October 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Sam Martin grows up in the Kentucky hills with a preacher as his closest friend and father figure. The young man goes away and gets an education, and when he returns home, he wants to build a school so that others can learn, too.
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Lightnin'
Title: Lightnin'
Character: Millie
Released: August 23, 1925
Type: Movie
Set in a hotel straddling the border between California and Nevada, this early John Ford comedy follows a female hotel owner's efforts to turn a profit and get some work out of her husband.
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The Man in Blue
Title: The Man in Blue
Character: Teresa 'Tita' Sartori
Released: June 21, 1925
Type: Movie
Tom Conlin, an Irish cop walking a beat in an Italian neighborhood, falls in love with Tita Sartori, the daughter of a florist. Tita returns Tom's affection but keeps him at a distance, believing him to be married; However she is also wooed by an unscrupulous politician of considerable wealth.....
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The Parasite
Title: The Parasite
Character: Joan Laird
Released: January 20, 1925
Type: Movie
Arthur Randall becomes prosperous after divorcing his wife, Laura, and she now attempts unsuccessfully to win him back. Randall's son becomes ill, and he engages Joan Laird and her mother to care for the boy. Society misunderstands, and Joan is branded as a parasite. Laura kidnaps the boy, Bertie, and Joan gives chase. Laura's car goes over a cliff, and she is killed. Bertie survives the crash, however, and he and Joan attempt to find their way to a refuge. They become lost in the hills, and Joan manages to keep Bertie from dying until rescue comes.
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The Dancers
Title: The Dancers
Character: Una
Released: January 4, 1925
Type: Movie
Young Tony, unable to make a living in crowded and fast-paced London, goes to South America in search of his fortune. He soon becomes the owner of a saloon and dance hall. One of the dancers in his place, Maxine, falls in love with him, but Tony is still in love with his childhood sweetheart Una, although Una is now a "party girl" back in London and has forgotten about Tony. However, Tony comes into an unexpected inheritance, along with a title, and returns to London for Una. Although disappointed with Una's current lifestyle, he asks her to marry him despite her "indiscretions". However, the night before they are to be married Una confesses a deep, dark secret to Tony that could change their lives forever.
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Secrets of the Night
Title: Secrets of the Night
Character: Anne Maynard
Released: November 12, 1924
Type: Movie
Robert Andrews hosts a large party and there stages his own murder, to keep bank examiner Alfred Austin from examining the records of his bank.
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The Iron Horse
Title: The Iron Horse
Character: Miriam Marsh
Released: August 24, 1924
Type: Movie
Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.
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The Fire Patrol
Title: The Fire Patrol
Character: Molly Thatcher
Released: August 14, 1924
Type: Movie
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His Forgotten Wife
Title: His Forgotten Wife
Character: Suzanne
Released: April 14, 1924
Type: Movie
During the World War, Donald Allen is reported killed in action but is really a victim of amnesia. His French nurse, Suzanne, gives him a new identity, and they marry.
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Love's Whirlpool
Title: Love's Whirlpool
Character: Nadine Milton
Released: March 2, 1924
Type: Movie
Toughened criminal Jim Reagan tries to persuade his brother, Larry, to go straight, but Larry attempts to rob a banker, Richard Milton, and is arrested. Milton refuses to be lenient, and when Larry is killed trying to escape from prison, Jim and his wife, Molly, resolve to have vengeance.
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The White Sin
Title: The White Sin
Character: Hattie Lou Harkness
Released: February 24, 1924
Type: Movie
Wealthy playboy Grant Van Gore means to have his way with his beautiful maid, the innocent Hattie Lou. He swears his love to the naive girl, and in an act so heinous as to defy belief, has the captain of his yacht perform a fake marriage ceremony. He ruins poor Hattie Lou, and then abandons her ashore the very next morning. A year later, the destitute girl and her starving baby are wandering the streets. When she sees a newspaper headline announcing that Grant has drowned at sea, Hattie Lou hatches a desperate plan for survival. She will present herself to the wealthy Van Gore's, who cannot fail to provide for their late son's widow and child!
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No More Women
Title: No More Women
Character: Peggy Van Dyke
Released: February 15, 1924
Type: Movie
When Matt Moore was thrown over by vamp Kathleen Cliffford, he resolved to have no more women in his life. But he didn't take account of wealthy Mage Bellamy who is determined to pursue him until he marries her.
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Soul of the Beast
Title: Soul of the Beast
Character: Ruth Lorrimore
Released: May 6, 1923
Type: Movie
This northwoods comedy-drama, by way of a circus drama, was directed by John Griffith Wray for Thomas H. Ince, and stars Madge Bellamy.
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Are You a Failure?
Title: Are You a Failure?
Character: Phyllis Thorpe
Released: March 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Coddled by his maiden aunts and apparently unable to make decisions, Oliver Wendell Blaine signs up for a mail-order course in "Success." Oliver follows the instructions step by step, builds his self-confidence, and proves himself a hero when a log jam threatens the town. He is made river boss and marries Phyllis Thorpe, daughter of the owner of the lumber-mill.
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Garrison's Finish
Title: Garrison's Finish
Character: Sue Desha
Released: January 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Billy Garrison, a jockey, is framed and suspended for throwing a face. Depressed, he goes to a bar and eventually gets into a fight. He loses his memory, and is taken to the home of pretty young Sue Desha, who gets him a job as a jockey for her father, Col. Desha. Unfortunately, the man who framed Billy, named Crimmins, finds out he's working for the Sue's father and reveals Billy's past to the colonel. Complications ensue.
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The Hottentot
Title: The Hottentot
Character: Peggy Fairfax
Released: December 25, 1922
Type: Movie
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Lorna Doone
Title: Lorna Doone
Character: Lorna Doone
Released: October 1, 1922
Type: Movie
In 17th-century England, an outlaw clan kidnaps a young girl, who grows up among them. The farm boy who met her just before the kidnapping eventually rescues her, and they fall in love.
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Hail the Woman
Title: Hail the Woman
Character: Nan Higgins
Released: November 28, 1921
Type: Movie
Oliver Beresford is a stern, Puritanical, and uncompromisingly rigid father. When shameful stories about his daughter Judith surface, rather than determine whether the stories are true, he bans her from his house. Her brother David, a pusillanimous reprobate, has secretly married and fathered, then abandoned, a child. Judith takes care of the child and finds a way to restore her family through the love for the babe.
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The Call of the North
Title: The Call of the North
Character: Virginia Albret
Released: November 27, 1921
Type: Movie
Galen Albret (Noah Beery) is the factor, or manager, of an important trading post of the Hudson Bay Company. He's also a jealous and vindictive man, and because he believes that Graham Stewart (Edward Martindel) has slept with his wife, he sends him into the Northwoods to die. Stewart's son, who grows up with the name Ned Trent (Jack Holt), swears revenge.
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Love Never Dies
Title: Love Never Dies
Character: Tilly Whaley
Released: November 11, 1921
Type: Movie
John and Tilly's happy marriage is ruined when Tilly's father finds out about the scandalous past of John's mother. John, unaware of his father-in-law's meddling, thinks Tilly has left him, and he leaves town. Her father leads Tilly to believe that John has died in an accident, and he pushes her to marry someone else.
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Blind Hearts
Title: Blind Hearts
Character: Julia Larson
Released: October 3, 1921
Type: Movie
In 1898 friends John Thomas and Lars Larson travel to the Yukon with their wives to make their fortunes. While in Alaska Thomas' wife gives birth to a boy, and Larson's wife has a girl, Julia. However, Larson spots a birthmark on his daughter's shoulder that resembles one on Thomas' shoulder, and he begins to suspect that he may not actually be the girl's father. Over the next 20 years the two become millionaires, but Larson's wife dies. Julia and Thomas fall in love and wish to marry, but Larson is determined to oppose it.
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The Cup of Life
Title: The Cup of Life
Character: Pain
Released: August 7, 1921
Type: Movie
Infamous Singapore smuggler Bully Brand possess a beautiful pearl necklace that is desired by Chinese merchant Chan Chang for his daughter Pain, a young white girl he had adopted. Warren Bradford, Brand's ward, returns from college and falls in love with Chang's daughter.