Australians in Hollywood : Biographical Notes

Madge Titheradge
Madge Titheradge (1887-1961), actress, was born into a theatrical family in Melbourne. Her father was an English-born actor, and the 11-year-old Madge had already done stage work with Australia 's Brough-Boucicault and Bland Holt companies when the family returned to Britain in 1898. She made her London stage debut at fifteen, and soon became a popular actress and beauty, her photograph adorning many a postcard and cigarette card. After touring Canada and the U.S. in stage productions she made her screen debut in the British film A Fair Impostor (1916), and later the same year went to Hollywood to star in Brigadier Gerard (1916). Her subsequent Hollywood films were Her Story (1920) and the early co-production David and Jonathan (1920), a British funded film shot in a Hollywood studio.

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