Madge Bellamy
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Madge Bellamy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: June 30, 1899
Place of Birth: Hillsboro, Texas, USA
Known For
Under Your Spell
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.
Charlie Chan in London
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.
The Iron Horse
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.
Lazybones
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.
Blind Hearts
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.
Lorna Doone
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.
Lightnin'
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.
Soul of the Beast
This northwoods comedy-drama, by way of a circus drama, was directed by John Griffith Wray for Thomas H. Ince, and stars Madge Bellamy.
Secrets of the Night
At a lavish house party, bank president Robert Andrews stages his own “murder” to distract a visiting bank examiner from uncovering a shortage, setting off a whodunit where nearly everyone has a motive. The investigation spirals until Andrews is found alive and admits the frame-up—after the deficit is repaid. A silent black-and-white Universal mystery-melodrama-comedy directed by Herbert Blaché; long thought lost, a print resurfaced in 2017.
The White Sin
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!
Filmography
as Mrs. Yeager
as Secretary (uncredited)
as Miss Stafford
as Woman in Cab
as Woman in Negligee (Uncredited)
as Sally
as Tessie
as Becky Fothergill
as Suzanne Ricord
as Mary Gray
as Lil Daley
as Madeleine Short Parker
as Jane Eldridge
as Alice Carroll
as Madge Norton
as Nancy Woods
as Ruth Stevens
as Madge Murphy
as Herself
as Kitty O'Brien
as Nora
as Bertha Sloan
as Derry Thomas
as Sylvia Douglas
as Sandy McNeil
as Aida Fippany
as Dixie Denniston
as Kit
as Azalea
as Miriam Marsh
as Tessie Dunton
as Millie
as Teresa 'Tita' Sartori
as Joan Laird
as Una
as Countess von Pless
as Gabrielle
as Anne Maynard
as Mary Jordan
as Molly Thatcher
as Suzanne
as Nadine Milton
as Hattie Lou Harkness
as Peggy Van Dyke
as Ruth Lorrimore
as Phyllis Thorpe
as Sue Desha
as Peggy Fairfax
as Lorna Doone
as Nan Higgins
as Virginia Albret
as Tilly Whaley
as Julia Larson
as Mary Spivins
as Pain
as Marie Meyer