Madge Kennedy
Madge Kennedy ( born April 19, 1891 in Chicago, Illinois, † June 9, 1987 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California ) was an American actress.
Life
Madge Kenndy was born in Chicago and grew up in California. With her mother, she came at the age of 18 years to New York City, where she studied art and a member of the Art Students League of New York was. 1910, she began acting and with the piece Little Miss Brown debuted it in 1912 on Broadway. After she had with twin beds and Fair and Warmer two other successful Broadway shows, she made her debut with the two comedies Baby Mine and Nearly Married in 1917 as a silent film actress. After the drama Oh, Baby! 1926 veered, they decided to turn his back on the film, and was to be found in the next 25 years solely on the theater stage. They only returned as a judge Anne B. Carroll for 1952 published and directed by George Cukor romantic comedy happy ending ... and then what? the film back and turned to her last film in 1976 with Marathon Man still other movies like Vincent van Gogh - A life in passion, North by Northwest and The Day of the Locust.
Parallel to the Acting Kennedy also appeared on the radio. So she had with Burgess Meredith together the radio series Red Davis, who in 1934 was broadcast both on NBC radio as well as WJZ.
Kennedy was married to his first wife, from 1918 to 1927 with the banker and businessman Harold Bolster. In order to be closer to him, she asked to get out of their 1921 Samuel Goldwyn film contract in order to move back to New York City can. Her husband was a veteran of World War I and worked for the New York bank Bennett, Bolster & Coghill. For a business trip to South America, he retired to a disease from which he died in 1927. He inherited her a fortune of 500,000 U.S. dollars. On August 13, 1934 Kennedy married actor and radio presenter William B. Hanley, Jr.
On June 9, 1987 Kenndy died at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital. She has her star on the Walk of Fame at 1600 Vine Street.