Cleo Madison
Also Known As: Lulu Bailey
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bloomington, Illinois, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: March 25, 1883
Age: 142 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 11, 1964
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Unseen Hands
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-25
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A Woman's Woman
Overview: A woman finds herself being a unpaid skivvy to her husband, two daughters and her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-24
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The Trey o' Hearts
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-04
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The Heart of a Cracksman
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-07
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Cross Purposes
Overview: Cleo drops her bonnet while sitting on the wall. Young Wally picks it up; their eyes meet and the old, old tale follows.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-05
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Alas and Alack
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-10
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The Ring of Destiny
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-18
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Sealed Orders
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-30
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The Great Radium Mystery
Overview: Criminals steal a radium-powered tank from an inventor. His heiress and a government agent take up the chase.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-13
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The Severed Hand
Overview: The Severed Hand, a society of Italian criminals and blackmailers, swear to kill Danny Dawson, who has turned traitor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-17
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True As Steel
Overview: 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 ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-20
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Eleanor's Catch
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-01
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Black Orchids
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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The Sin of Olga Brandt
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-03
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The Romance of Tarzan
Overview: 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...
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-17
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The Chalice of Sorrow
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-09
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The Dangerous Age
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-04
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Ladies Must Live
Overview: Schooled by her wealthy brother-in-law William Hollins, Christine Bleeker plans to marry Ralph Lincourt when he is divorced. He, however, is equally pursued by Nancy Barron, whom Christine dislikes. Ned Klegg loves social secretary Barbara, and resents the attention paid her by Barron, Nancy's elderly husband. Nell Martin, a servant in the Hollins home, is in love with the gardener but is persecuted by the butler. Aviator Mulvain and his mechanic Le Prim arrive, and Le Prim absconds with Nancy in an auto, pursued by Mulvain and Christine, who force him to release her. Christine announces her engagement to Mulvain, who declares he is a poor man. In the resulting commotion, it transpires that Nell, threatened with exposure, has drowned herself. The shock brings a change of emotion: Barbara rejects Barron and accepts Klegg, and Christine accepts Mulvain, content to share his poverty. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-29
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Her Defiance
Overview: A woman is deserted by her wealthy young lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-14
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The Power of Fascination
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-10
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A Mother's Atonement
Overview: A man recalls his earlier days when he was married and his wife cheated on him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-17
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The Roughneck
Overview: Beautiful Felicity Arden, is forced by a storm to take refuge in Mad Marrat's dwelling on the South Sea Isle.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-30
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Samson
Overview: Samson, an Israelite whose enormous strength is legendary, falls in love with Zorah, a Philistine, and marries her, overcoming his father Manoah's objections.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-30
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Her Bitter Cup
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-17
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Gold Madness
Overview: Crooked mine dealer Scotty McGee lures away gold prospector Tim Kendal's wife, Olga, who married out of gold madness. Kendall gets revenge when he actually strikes gold, then later, as a member of the police force, arrests McGee and Olga as swindlers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-02
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Damon and Pythias
Overview: The friendship of Damon, the senator, and Pythias, the soldier, is famous in Ancient Syracuse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-23
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A Soul Enslaved
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-24
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