Madge Kennedy

Madge Kennedy

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

Смерть : 1987-06-09

Профиль

Madge Kennedy

Фильмы

W.C. Fields: Straight Up
Self
Documentary directed by Joseph Adamson.
Марафонец
Lady in Bank
Главный герой, студент-историк Томас Леви захвачен учебой, он любит бегать по утрам и скучает по своему старшему брату, который живет далеко и в совсем другом мире… Он еще не подозревает во что окажется втянут. Сможет ли он выдержать схватку с преследующим его опасным нацистским преступником?
День Саранчи
Mrs. Johnson
30-е годы XX века. Голливуд – недостижимая вершина для восторженных любителей кинематографа. Но год от года мечтатели продолжают штурмовать ее в надежде доказать свой талант и обрести славу, деньги, любовь поклонников. Хэрри Гриннер, выпускник Йельского университета, тоже пытается войти в мир кинобизнеса. Но попав за кулисы киноиндустрии, он видит, что за красивой картинкой «фабрики грез» скрывается уродливая реальность.
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.
Загнанных лошадей пристреливают, не правда ли?
Mrs. Laydon
Америка в тяжелые годы Великой депрессии. Всюду безработица и бедность. Люди берутся за любую работу, чтобы заработать на кусок хлеба и крышу над головой. Поэтому не удивительно, что танцевальный марафон с призом в 1500 долларов легко собрал в мрачном ангаре на побережье несколько десятков участников со всей страны. Все они такие разные, но каждый готов на все ради выигрыша...
На север через северо-запад
Mrs. Finlay (uncredited)
Шпионская организация ошибочно принимает Роджера Торнхилла, служащего рекламной компании, за некоего двойного агента Каплана. В то же время, будучи преследуемым полицией по подозрению в убийстве, которое он не совершал, Торнхилл влюбляется в девушку по имени Ева, но и она оказывается не той, за которую себя выдает
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
Two bunglers (Tom Ewell, Mickey Rooney) rob a bank and buy a racehorse, then try to rob another bank.
Плавучий дом
Mrs. Farnsworth
Очаровательная комедия о нью-йоркском адвокате, одиноком отце трех шаловливых детишек. Они решают, что им нужна мама, а папе — жена, поэтому убеждают его взять младшенькому Чарльзу очаровательную итальянскую воспитательницу. Папа неожиданно влюбляется в красавицу, которая оказывается не простой девушкой, а дочерью итальянского дипломата.
Жажда жизни
Anna Cornelia van Gogh
Фильм рассказывает о художнике Винсенте Ван Гоге, одолеваемом психическими проблемами и разочарованием от неудач. При поддержке своего брата Тео измученный Ван Гог покидает Голландию и отправляется во Францию, где он встречается с художником Полем Гогеном и старается найти вдохновение для своего творчества.
Свадебный завтрак
Mrs. Joe Halloran
Мечтавшим пожениться Ральфу и Джейн выпадает счастливый случай. Они смогут в ближайшие дни отправиться в свадебное путешествие, если успеют обвенчаться без лишней шумихи и пышной церемонии. Молодые и не подозревали, что желание обойтись скромным свадебным завтраком вызовет массу проблем.
Three Bad Sisters
Martha Craig
Following the death of a wealthy man, his three daughters squabble about who should be the principal heiress.
Дожди Ранчипура
Богатые супруги Эскет, брак которых уже давно трещит по швам, приезжают в индийскую провинцию Ранчипур с целью покупки у местной махарани призового скакуна. Здесь леди Эдвина Эскет влюбляется в молодого доктора Сафти. Начавшийся сезон дождей прерывает складывающуюся идиллию: землетрясение разрушает заградительную дамбу и тысячи тонн воды обрушиваются на город, сметая все на своем пути, разрушая дома и ломая судьбы героев...
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.
Спасти брак
Judge Anne B. Carroll
У Флоренции и Чета Кифера был проблемный брак. Но в середине бракоразводного процесса они слышат, как судья призывает их вспомнить хорошие времена, и у них появляется надежда на спасение семьи.
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.