Madge Kennedy

Madge Kennedy

Nacimiento : 1891-04-19, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Muerte : 1987-06-09

Perfil

Madge Kennedy

Películas

W.C. Fields: Straight Up
Self
Documentary directed by Joseph Adamson.
Marathon Man
Lady in Bank
En Nueva York, Babe Levy, un universitario que está haciendo el doctorado en la Universidad de Columbia y que pasa parte de su tiempo libre preparándose para correr maratones, conoce a Elsa, una extraña mujer suiza con la que inicia una relación amorosa.
Como plaga de langosta
Mrs. Johnson
Hollywood, finales de los años treinta. Tod Hackett, un joven pintor que intenta abrirse camino como director artístico en el escabroso mundo de la industria cinematográfica, se enamora de su vecina Faye Greener, una aspirante a actriz que prefiere la vida que Homer Simpson, un solitario contable, puede ofrecerle.
The Baby Maker
Tish's Grandmother
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 wife's inability to have children. She accepts but finds that knowing the parents, and developing a relationship with them for the entire pregnancy complicates the simple arrangement.
Danzad, danzad, malditos
Mrs. Laydon
Estados Unidos, en plena época de la Gran Depresión. En medio de un ambiente de terrible miseria, gentes desesperadas, de toda edad y condición, se apuntan a una maratón de baile con la esperanza de ganar el premio final de 1500 dólares de plata y encontrar, al menos, un sitio donde dormir y comer. Mientras los concursantes fuerzan los límites de su resistencia física y psíquica, una multitud morbosa se divierte contemplando su sufrimiento durante días.
Con la muerte en los talones
Mrs. Finlay (uncredited)
Debido a un malentendido, a Roger O. Thornhill, un ejecutivo del mundo de la publicidad, unos espías lo confunden con un agente del gobierno llamado George Kaplan. Secuestrado por tres individuos y llevado a una mansión en la que es interrogado, consigue huir antes de que lo maten. Cuando al día siguiente regresa a la casa acompañado de la policía, no hay rastro de las personas que había descrito.
Plunderers of Painted Flats
Mary East
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, and his eldest son, Joe, is pistol-whipped. Timmy Martin sees the killer, Cass Becker and points him out when he and Joe are in Painted Flats. Cass forces Joe to put on a gun but Ned East, a retired gunfighter, saves the inexperienced Joe by forcing Cass to draw on him, and Ned is the winner.
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
Grace Havens
Tres amantes de las carreras de caballos se dedican a robar para aplacar su adicción al juego.
Cintia
Mrs. Farnsworth
Tom (Cary Grant) es un viudo que vive con tres hijos pequeños en una casa flotante. Para cuidarlos contrata como niñera a Cintia (Sophia Loren), una bella italiana que oculta su verdadera identidad.
El loco del pelo rojo
Anna Cornelia van Gogh
Biopic del famoso pintor impresionista Vincent Van Gogh, que retrata su atormentada vida a partir de su obra, que no es más que un reflejo de la ansiedad, la sensación de fracaso y la soledad que lo llevaron, finalmente, a la locura.
Banquete de bodas
Mrs. Joe Halloran
Jane Hurley (Debbie Reynolds) anuncia a sus padres (Bette Davis y Ernest Borgnine) su próxima boda con Ralph (Rod Taylor) y su deseo de que a la ceremonia asistan sólo los más íntimos. Sin embargo, y a pesar de los escasos recursos económicos de la familia, la señora Hurley intentará por todos los medios darle a su hija la boda que se merece. (FILMAFFINITY)
Three Bad Sisters
Martha Craig
Following the death of a wealthy man, his three daughters squabble about who should be the principal heiress.
Las lluvias de Ranchipur
Edwina Esketh (Lana Turner) llega a la India en compañía de su marido. Poco después conoce al médico de una pequeña localidad, el doctor Safti (Richard Burton), del que acaba enamorándose.
Main Street to Broadway
Mrs. Cope in Fantasy Sequence
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 inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
Chica para matrimonio
Judge Anne B. Carroll
Después de varios años de convivencia llenos de privaciones, alegrías y penas, Florende y Chester Keefer deciden poner fin a su matrimonio.
Oh, Baby!
Billy, a diminutive manager of prizefighters, is priming Jim Stone for the heavyweight championship when Charley Burns (Arthur Graham?) discloses that for the past 8 years he has invented a mythical wife and daughter for the benefit of his Aunt Phoebe, who now requests a visit from them. He finally persuades Billy to pose as his daughter, Evangeline, while Miss Brennan, a magazine writer, consents to take the role of his wife.
Lying Wives
Three miles out
Molly Townsend
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 really loves, on a steamship bound for Rio. He is thrown overboard, leaving her at the mercy of a crew full of bad men. She is nearly their victim when she is rescued by John and her mother. When the police come aboard, the leader of the band reveals the true character of Riccardi, leaving Molly and John happy together.
The Purple Highway
April Blair
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 Broadway musical. Edgar ( Monte Blue ), the playwright, is in love with April ( Madge Kennedy ), the ex- leading lady, but she doesn't discover that she loves him until it's almost too late.
Oh Mary Be Careful
Mary Meacham
"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 testing the desirable qualities of the male sex. Mary sees a dreary man-less time before her and sends an S. O. S. to various sisters and their brothers to visit her while Auntie is away.
The Highest Bidder
Sally Raeburn
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 wealth, so when the very well-heeled Lester comes to her village, Sally goes after him. Lester has been traveling incognito in the hopes that no one will discover him, so when Sally wins him she feels guilty and confesses that she knew who he was all along.
The Truth
Becky Warder
Becky Warder constantly indulges in the telling of little white lies. In an innocent effort to ease the troubled marriage of her quarreling friends Eve and Fred Lindon, Becky meets secretly with Fred, thereby constructing a web of deceit that leads Eve to suspect Becky of trifling with her husband's affections. Eve informs Becky's husband Tom of these meetings and Tom, suspicious, accuses his wife of infamy. ....
Dollars and Sense
Hazel Farron
Destitute, Hazel Farron is offered employment and comfort from bakery owner David Rogers. When Rogers' bakery slips into debt, he collapses from exhaustion and anxiety, forcing Hazel to turn to former admirer Geoffrey Stanhope for financial aid. Stanhope consents in return for a night alone with Hazel, but when she arrives at his hotel room for the appointed tryst, she discovers Stanhope waiting with Rogers and a minister so that Hazel can marry her employer.
The Blooming Angel
Floss
Floss Brannon, expelled from college for mischievous conduct, marries Chester Framm, a struggling young student who aspires to be an orator. When Chester's salary as an insurance clerk proves insufficient for the couple's needs, Claire invents a complexion cream called "Angel Bloom." Deciding to combine Chester's oratory prowess with the promotion of Angel Bloom, Floss rents an elephant, coats it with the cream and plans to have Chester pitch the product from the back of the animal.
Through the Wrong Door
Isabel Carter
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 to whom she is immediately attracted. What she does not know, however, is that this young man has been fleeced by her father and has sworn vengeance against him.
Leave It to Susan
Susan Burbridge
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 lost in the West, and is found by an engineer who she mistakes for an outlaw. tHe plays along because he enjoys it, but then four real outlaws show up, and he tells them he was kidnapping her. They get found out, the girl gets one of the outlaws' guns and rescues them, and of course, they discover they love each other!
A Perfect Lady
Lucille Le Jambon / Lucy Higgins
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 Deacon John Griswold, forces the Merry Models Burlesque show to close. Having grown fond of Sycamore, Lucy opens a combined ice cream parlor and dance hall, where she teaches the young people all the latest dances. ...
Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
Joan of Arc
The Kaiser is playing cards with King Albert of Italy, who loses, but is rescued by Miss Liberty Loan.
The Fair Pretender
Sylvia Maynard
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 snare a rich husband. Here she meets handsome young Tom Moore, who is likewise impersonating a man of wealth.
The Danger Game
Clytie Rogers
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 story is completely implausible. To prove him wrong, Clytie decides to feign a robbery and enters an apartment through an open window. She is apprehended by a policeman, who mistakes her for local robber "Powder Nose Annie." Gilpin sees her in jail and, posing as crook Jimmy of the Dives, arranges to break her out and take her on a robbing spree. Finally, Jimmy returns her to her parents and then calls at her home as Gilpin, the critic. Clytie is suprised but forgives the deception and agrees to marry him.
Nearly Married
Betty Griffon
Silent comedy, based on a 1913 stage play of the same title.
Baby Mine
Zoie
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 birth to a baby. Complications ensue when Morgan returns home, demanding to see his new kid.