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1. Ladies Must Live (1921)
80 min | Drama, Romance
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 ... See full summary »
Director: George Loane Tucker | Stars: Robert Ellis, Mahlon Hamilton, Betty Compson, Leatrice Joy
Votes: 65
2. The Great Radium Mystery (1919)
Passed | Adventure, Action
Criminals steal a radium-powered tank from an inventor. His heiress and a government agent take up the chase.
Directors: Robert Broadwell, Robert F. Hill | Stars: Cleo Madison, Bob Reeves, Eileen Sedgwick, Bob Kortman
Votes: 27
3. The Romance of Tarzan (1918)
70 min | Action, Adventure
Tarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have been killed.
Director: Wilfred Lucas | Stars: Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey, Thomas Jefferson, Cleo Madison
Votes: 59
4. The Chalice of Sorrow (1916)
50 min | Drama
Opera goers had never heard such a "Carmen" as Lorelei, the American girl, who had come to Mexico City, almost unheralded, and captivated the town. Francisco De Sarpina, governor of the ... See full summary »
Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Cleo Madison, Blanche White, Charles Cummings, John McDermott
Votes: 14
5. Damon and Pythias (1914)
100 min | Drama
After a prologue which shows several aerial views of the Acropolis, the story begins. The friendship of Damon, the senator, and Pythias, the soldier, is famous in Ancient Syracuse. Because ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Turner | Stars: William Worthington, Herbert Rawlinson, Cleo Madison, Ann Little
Votes: 45
6. The Roughneck (1924)
Passed | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A storm forces beautiful Felicity Arden (Billie Dove) to take refuge in Mad Marrat's dwelling on the South Sea Isle.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: George O'Brien, Billie Dove, Harry T. Morey, Cleo Madison
Votes: 25
7. Black Orchids (1917)
50 min | Drama, Horror
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.
Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Cleo Madison, Dick La Reno, Francis McDonald, Wedgwood Nowell
Votes: 25
8. Samson (1914)
60 min | Drama
Manoah and his wife mourn deeply because both have passed the middle-age mark and remain childless. As they become older, their sorrow increases until one day the old wife calls upon the ... See full synopsis »
Director: J. Farrell MacDonald | Stars: J. Warren Kerrigan, Kathleen Kerrigan, George Periolat, Lule Warrenton
Votes: 31
9. Her Defiance (1916)
21 min | Short, Drama
Adeline falls in love with Frank, but her brother Theron wants her to marry rich Old Scapin, though she is carrying Frank's baby.
Directors: Joe King, Cleo Madison | Stars: Cleo Madison, Taylor N. Duncan, Edward Hearn, Willis Marks
Votes: 111
10. The Master Key (1914)
310 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Episode 1: "Gold Madness" Two mining prospectors. James Gallon and his partner, Wilkerson, in a temporary camp, have been searching for gold. Gallon has made a lucky strike and has tried to... See full synopsis »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Robert Z. Leonard, Ella Hall, Harry Carter, Jean Hathaway
Votes: 26
11. Eleanor's Catch (1916)
Unrated | 15 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Eleanor, who earns her living working with her mother as a laundress, is courted by a bad man who will try to induct her into crime. Surprising finale. One of the few Cleo Madison surviving films.
Director: Cleo Madison | Stars: Cleo Madison, Lule Warrenton, William V. Mong, Edward Hearn
Votes: 128
12. The Girl from Nowhere (1919)
Passed | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A girl, suffering from amnesia, shows up in a logging-camp in the northwest. There are those who know more about who she is than she does, including why she is there, and the helpless girl ... See full summary »
Directors: Wilfred Lucas, Bess Meredyth | Stars: Cleo Madison, Wilfred Lucas, Frank Brownlee, Val Paul
Votes: 26
13. A Mother's Atonement (1915)
Drama, Short
Old Ben Morrison and his daughter, Jen, an unsophisticated girl, live on an island not far from the mainland. Jasper Crane, middle-aged sensualist of the rougher type, bargains with Jen's ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Cleo Madison, Lon Chaney, Arthur Shirley, Wyndham Standing
Votes: 26
14. Alas and Alack (1915)
13 min | Short, Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Cleo Madison, Arthur Shirley, Mary Kearnen, Lon Chaney
Votes: 100
15. The Price of Redemption (1920)
Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Returning to England a hero after saving a British garrison in India, Leigh Dering marries Jean Desmond, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. Humiliated by the patronage of his wealthy ... See full summary »
Director: Dallas M. Fitzgerald | Stars: Bert Lytell, Seena Owen, Cleo Madison, Landers Stevens
Votes: 18
16. The Trey o' Hearts (1914)
310 min | Adventure
A crippled old man and his daughter plot to kill a young man they mistakenly believe was responsible for the man's injury. Matters get complicated when his other daughter, who is a twin, falls in love with the intended victim.
Directors: Wilfred Lucas, Henry MacRae | Stars: Cleo Madison, George Larkin, Edward Sloman, Tom Walsh
Votes: 25
17. The Fascination of the Fleur de Lis (1915)
Short, Drama, Romance
The story is staged in an imaginary German principality. While working in the fields the wife is taken ill and her husband in leading her home passes the palace of the Duke of Safoulrug, on... See full summary »
Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Cleo Madison, Arthur Shirley, Lon Chaney, Millard K. Wilson
18. True As Steel (1924)
70 min | Drama
Frank Parry, a prosperous middle-aged manufacturer, takes a business trip to New York, where he becomes infatuated with Eva Boutelle, manager of the Swansea Cotton Mills. For a time, their ... See full summary »
Director: Rupert Hughes | Stars: Aileen Pringle, Huntley Gordon, Cleo Madison, Eleanor Boardman
19. A Woman's Woman (1922)
80 min | Drama
After 20 years of married life, Densie Plummer feels unappreciated by her family and decides to open her own business. Her newfound independence causes strife with her husband and children.
Director: Charles Giblyn | Stars: Mary Alden, Louise Lee, Dorothy Mackaill, Holmes Herbert
20. Unseen Hands (1924)
60 min | Drama, Horror
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Jaccard | Stars: Wallace Beery, Joseph J. Dowling, Fontaine La Rue, Jack Rollens
21. The Trap (I) (1913)
Drama, Short
Lon is engaged to Jane, a social butterfly whose financial desires are impossible for him to fulfill.
Director: Edwin August | Stars: Murdock MacQuarrie, Pauline Bush, Cleo Madison, Lon Chaney
22. The Ring of Destiny (1915)
20 min | Short, Drama, Western
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Cleo Madison | Stars: Cleo Madison, Joe King, Hoot Gibson, William Steele
23. The Flight of a Night Bird (1915)
Short, Drama
Porter Chase thinks he loves Natalie Wall. Following the lead of others in their set, they reverse the order of day and night. Porter's only aim in life is to have a good time. Katherine ... See full synopsis »
Director: Charles Giblyn | Stars: Cleo Madison, Hobart Henley, Agnes Vernon, Ray Hanford
24. The Sin of Olga Brandt (1915)
Drama, Short
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. A ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Pauline Bush, William C. Dowlan, Lon Chaney, Cleo Madison
25. Gold Madness (1923)
Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Thornby | Stars: Guy Bates Post, Cleo Madison, Mitchell Lewis, Grace Darmond
26. Hearts and Flowers (III) (1914)
11 min | Short, Drama
Stars: J. Warren Kerrigan, Cleo Madison, Edith Bostwick, George Periolat
27. Her Bitter Cup (1916)
50 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Directors: Joe King, Cleo Madison | Stars: Cleo Madison, Adele Farrington, William V. Mong, Edward Hearn
28. The Lullaby (1924)
70 min | Drama
Tony is sentenced to be hanged for the murder of his friend, Pietro, whom he found seducing his bride, Felipa, and she is sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment as an accessory. Born in ... See full summary »
Director: Chester Bennett | Stars: Jane Novak, Robert Anderson, Fred Malatesta, Dorothy Brock
29. A Soul Enslaved (1916)
50 min | Drama
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, ... See full summary »
Director: Cleo Madison | Stars: Cleo Madison, Tom Chatterton, Douglas Gerrard, Lule Warrenton
30. Discontented Husbands (1924)
58 min | Drama
Michael Frazer, newly rich from his invention of a can-opener, has drifted away from Jane, his wife, who persists in her old-fashioned ways. He advises his daughter Marcia to marry "someone... See full summary »
Director: Edward LeSaint | Stars: James Kirkwood, Cleo Madison, Grace Darmond, Arthur Rankin
31. Liquid Dynamite (1915)
Short, Drama
Old man Belton and daughter, Tex, live near a mountain stream. Belton is in charge of a power house station. Joe Temple, a young business man from a nearby city, is on his vacation and ... See full summary »
Director: Cleo Madison | Stars: Cleo Madison, Jack Abbott, Tom Chatterton
32. Alias Jane Jones (1916)
Short, Drama
In private life, Frank Lyman is known as a loving husband and devoted father; in reality he is a notorious crook known to his associates as "Gentleman George." For a long time Gentleman ... See full summary »
Director: Cleo Madison | Stars: Cleo Madison, William V. Mong, Ray Hanford, Margaret Whistler
33. The Mother Instinct (1915)
30 min | Short, Drama
Marion Summers, in love with Curlew, comes to the notice of Gordon Barnes, who is much impressed with her. Curlew is intimate with Mamie We Voux. a demimondaine. When he informs her of his ... See full summary »
Director: Wilfred Lucas | Stars: Cleo Madison, Joe King, Edward Sloman, Bess Meredyth
34. The Acid Test (I) (1914)
Short, Drama
35. The Faith of Her Fathers (1915)
Short, Drama
The even tenor of life in the ghetto of New York is rudely interrupted by the advent of a young man who opens a Christian Mission for the Jews in that quarter of the city. Bertha, the ... See full synopsis »
Director: Charles Giblyn | Stars: Murdock MacQuarrie, Cleo Madison, Joe King
36. A Woman's Debt (1915)
Drama, Romance, Short
Thelma Morrison is the stenographer of Jack Davenport, the president of the Louisburg Bank. Davenport is in love with Thelma, who is engaged to Bob Cameron, captain of the town's baseball ... See full summary »
Stars: Cleo Madison, Joe King, Edward Sloman, Ray Hanford
37. Agnes Kempler's Sacrifice (1915)
Short, Drama
Tom Wren is the pampered son of a wealthy mother. The Wren fortunes are at a low ebb on account of the poor management of the widow and her son. It is the mother's fond wish to replenish ... See full summary »
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Hobart Henley, Jean Hathaway, Cleo Madison, Hylda Hollis
38. Sealed Orders (I) (1914)
20 min | Short, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Stars: J. Warren Kerrigan, Cleo Madison, William Worthington, Marc B. Robbins
39. The Dangerous Age (1922)
70 min | Drama
Mary and John Emerson have been married for 22 years, and she treats him more like a son than a husband. Stung by her rebuffs, he succumbs to the youthful charms of Gloria Sanderson, whom ... See full summary »
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Lewis Stone, Cleo Madison, Edith Roberts, Ruth Clifford
40. The Mystery Woman (1915)
Short, Western
Berta, "the crazy girl," as they term her, lives in the haunted house, a quarter of a mile from the town. She had come to the town two years before, but none knew from whence. She goes to ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Cleo Madison, Joe King, Edward Sloman, Ray Hanford
41. The Mystery of Wickham Hall (1914)
Short
The story opens in England two hundred years ago. The lands of Sir Henry Marston are forfeited to his neighbor, Sir John Wickham, for debt. Nadine, Marston's daughter, loves Arthur, her ... See full summary »
Stars: Cleo Madison, Edwin Alexander, Ray Gallagher, Ray Hanford
42. The Whirling Disk (1915)
Short, Drama
Dr. Harvey Beldon is in love with Aida Dale, the daughter of Prof. Dale, with whom Beldon is associated. While friendly with Dr. Beldon, Aida's heart is in the keeping of Dr. Dyer, a ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Giblyn | Stars: Cleo Madison, Ray Hanford, Albert MacQuarrie, Joe King
43. A Fiery Introduction (1915)
Short, Comedy, Drama
Director: Charles Giblyn | Stars: Cleo Madison, Arthur Moon, S.J. Bingham, Ray Hanford
44. The Dancer (1915)
Short, Drama
Gerald Temple falls heir to his uncle's fortune and is celebrating the event with a number of his friends, when he chances to meet the celebrated dancer, Stella. Both are infatuated with ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Giblyn | Stars: Cleo Madison, Charles Giblyn, Joe King, Jean Hathaway
45. The People of the Pit (1915)
Short, Drama
Robert Fuller is a grain broker with a beautiful daughter, Hilda. The old broker discovers that his confidential man, John Sherwin, is in love with his daughter and that this love is ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Giblyn | Stars: Cleo Madison, Joe King, Ray Hanford, Agnes Vernon
46. The Guilty One (1916)
Short, Drama, Western
Directors: Cleo Madison, William V. Mong | Stars: Bertram Grassby, Charles Gunn, V.T. Henderson, Cleo Madison
47. The Mock Rose (1914)
Short, Adventure
When Alan Law rescues Judith Trine, believing her to be her sister Rose, from the New York home of Seneca Trine, they proceed at once by motorcar to Jersey City, where arrangements are made... See full summary »
Stars: Cleo Madison, George Larkin
48. A Wild Irish Rose (1915)
Short, Drama
Rose Farley is a free-hearted Irish girl with slight regard for the conventions and other people's feelings. Upon the suggestion of the Rev. Thomas Noland, she is sent to an Irish country ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Giblyn | Stars: Cleo Madison, Joe King, Mae Talbot, Ray Hanford
49. The Great Universal Mystery (1914)
10 min | Short, Documentary
A promotional one-reel film promoting the stars of Universal Pictures.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: King Baggot, Leah Baird, Fred J. Balshofer, Isadore Bernstein
50. The Sea Venture (1914)
Short, Adventure
Judith catches the same train with Alan and Rose for Portland. Hearing a messenger calling for Alan Law with a telegram she learns that it informs Alan that he will not be able to get ... See full summary »
Stars: Cleo Madison, George Larkin