Cleo Madison
Actor · 1883 – 1964 · Bloomington, Illinois, USA
Movies23
Movie7.0AdventureCrimeReturning 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 father-in-law, Leigh turns to drink, estranging him from Jean. Returning home one night he finds the body of his wife's father. When Jean accuses her husband of the crime, Leigh disappears, making it seem as if he has been killed in a railway accident.
The Price of Redemption
1920 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaMichael 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 congenial so that when love goes you will have common interests." Neighboring architect Jack Ballard obtains the contract to design Frazer's house through the friendship of his attractive wife, Emily, with Frazer. Emily and Frazer become intimate friends, arousing the concern of Mrs. Frazer and Jack Ballard. Determined to teach his wife a lesson and win her back, Jack asks Marcia Frazer to run away with him. She consents but later reconsiders and they return home. Frazer realizes that Mrs. Ballard meant nothing to him, and Jack is reunited with his wife.
Discontented Husbands
1924 · 1 votes
Movie6.0AdventureActionTarzan 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...
The Romance of Tarzan
1918 · 2 votes
- MovieDramaRomance
Cleo drops her bonnet while sitting on the wall. Young Wally picks it up; their eyes meet and the old, old tale follows.
Cross Purposes
1913
Movie10.0DramaSamson, an Israelite whose enormous strength is legendary, falls in love with Zorah, a Philistine, and marries her, overcoming his father Manoah's objections.
Samson
1914 · 1 votes
Movie5.5DramaA man recalls his earlier days when he was married and his wife cheated on him.
A Mother's Atonement
1915 · 2 votes
Movie9.0DramaTony 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 prison, her child is taken from her at the age of three and is adopted by the judge, now governor, who sentenced the parents.
The Lullaby
1924 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Western
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.
The Ring of Destiny
1915 · 1 votes
Movie6.0ActionAdventureA 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 is soon at the mercy of the lawlessness in this far-flung frontier. Will some gentleman come to her aid?
The Girl from Nowhere
1919 · 2 votes
Movie7.0AdventureActionCriminals steal a radium-powered tank from an inventor. His heiress and a government agent take up the chase. 18 episode serial-1. The Mystic Stone, 2. The Death Trap, 3. The Fatal Ride, 4. The Swing for Life, 5. The Torture Chamber, 6. The Tunnel of Doom, 7. A Flash in the Dark, 8. In the Clutches of a Mad Man, 9. The Roaring Volcano, 10. Creeping Flames, 11. Perils of Doom, 12. Shackled, 13. The Scalding Pit, 14. Hemmed In, 15. The Flaming Arrow, 16. Over the Cataract, 17. The Wheels of Death, 18. Liquid Flames.
The Great Radium Mystery
1919 · 1 votes
Movie2.0DramaA 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. 15 chapter serial-1) Flower o' Flames, 2) White Water, 3) The Sea Venture, 4) Dead Reckoning, 5) The Sunset Tide, 6) The Crack o' Doom, 7) The Stalemate, 8) The Mock Rose, 9) As the Crow Flies, 10) Steel Ribbons, 11)The Painted Hills, 12) The Mirage, 13) The Jaws of Death, 14) The First Law , 15) The Last Trump.
The Trey o' Hearts
1914 · 1 votes
MovieDramaIsabel 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.
- Movie6.0Drama
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.
The Power of Fascination
1915 · 2 votes
- Movie9.0DramaRomance
Florentine Fair, a famous actress who is satiated with theatrical life, falls in love with Roger Dent, an unsophisticated youth with a passion for writing plays. Taking him to New York as her protégé, she encourages him to write. Although her lover Mortimer is insanely jealous at first, he finds merit in Dent's new play and finances him on Broadway.
The Lure of Youth
1921 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Drama
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.
Sealed Orders
1914 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaSuccessful 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 ...
True As Steel
1924 · 1 votes
- MovieCrimeDrama
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.
Movie9.0DramaThe son of a retired timber baron meets and falls in love with a Michigan woman who refuses to sell her land unless the buyer promises to replant to replace the trees that are to be cut down.
Hearts Aflame
1923 · 1 votes
MovieDramaRomanceThe heraldic image of the fleur-de-lis weaves through the story of an orphaned girl, born with a birthmark in the shape of the insignia her mother had become obsessed with before her death, as her own fascination with the symbol leads her to a series of troubled relationships with powerful men. Partially lost: an unknown length of the film survives.
MovieDramaRethna 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.
Her Bitter Cup
1916
Movie9.0DramaRomanceSchooled 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.
Ladies Must Live
1921 · 1 votes
- MovieDrama
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.
Movie1.0HorrorDramaFrivolous 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.
Black Orchids
1917 · 2 votes