Madge Bellamy
Madge Bellamy ( born: Margaret Derden Philpott, born 30 July 1899, at Hillsboro, Texas; † January 24, 1990 in Upland, California ) was an American film and theater actress.
Life
Childhood and youth
Madge Bellamy was the daughter of William Bledsoe Philpott, an English professor at Texas A & M University, and his wife, Annie Margaret Derden. Until her 6 years she lived in San Antonio, in 1905 the family moved to Brownwood, where her father had found a job at a college. Another four years later, in 1909, the company moved to Denver in the U.S. state of Colorado.
Career
Showed early her passion for acting, which culminated in 1916 with her tearing to New York City. Here she resigned in February 1918 her first engagement on Broadway when she was a minor role in the short-lived musical The Love Mill by Earl Carroll. Your second and final betting she got from December 1918, when they play Dear Brutus was also seen in an extras role in James M. Barrie. Shortly after she took the American theater producer Daniel Frohman under contract, who was also responsible for her stage name Madge Bellamy. With him, she went on to tour the USA and soon earned a remarkable week at that time fee of $ 100.
1920, Hollywood became aware of Bellamy, so that they in The Riddle made her debut as a film actress Woman by director Edward José. Despite the success, they celebrated in the coming years, she was one of those actresses that are not mastered the transition from silent to sound film without problems. In 1928 she was indeed in Mother Knows Best, the first sound film from 20th Century Fox, on camera, but liked the film a turning point in her career, as it only conditionally film offers in the 1930s - often in B- Movies - received. Your last film role she took over in 1945 in the Western Northwest Trail.
Private life
Madge Bellamy also attended off her career as an actress again hit the headlines. In 1928 she joined Tijuana (Mexico ) with the stockbroker Logan Metcalf before the altar. But the marriage ended in divorce after only four days - and is thus regarded as one of the shortest in Hollywood. Neither she was afterwards married again, nor had she ever children. In 1943, she came again into the press when she hurt her then-boyfriend Stanford Murphy in affect with a weapon, as it wanted to leave her for another woman.
They described himself as an atheist always, vegetarian and politically facing the left of the spectrum.
Later life
In the last decades of her life, she lived a very retired in her home in California. She wrote, among others, her autobiography, A Darling of the Twenties, the publication of which they themselves did not live. She died at the age of 90 of heart failure.
Today a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame remembers them.