#cleo madison

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Cleo Madison

By Albert Witzel (1917)

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Cleo Madison

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new-to-me #454 - Her Defiance

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Wherein I talk about Cleo Madison's Her Defiance, Julia Crawford Ivers's The Call of the Cumberlands, Ruth Ann Baldwin's ‘49-'17, and Marian E. Wong's The Curse of Quon Gwon: When the Far East Mingles with the West

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Alas and Alack 1915 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 Writer: Ida May Park Stars: Cleo Madison, Arthur Shirley, Mary Kearnen, Lon Chaney.

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Adventures in Art

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“Priscilla’s Prisoner” is a two reel rural drama. Cover ad for The Moving Picture Weekly, July 22, 1916.

“A girl (Cleo Madison, who also produced the film) takes a thief on her farm to work out his punishment and falls in love with him. The thief (Charles Gunn) turns out to be the wayward son of a wealthy family.”

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“One of these days, men are going to get over the fool idea that women have no brains, and quit getting insulted at the thought that a skirt-wearer can do their work quite as well as they can. And I don’t believe that day is very far off.”

- Cleo Madison, theatrical and silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director, Photoplay magazine 1916