Madge KennedyFilmography

The Baby Maker

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Collin Wilcox-Horne, Sam Groom, Scott Glenn, Jeannie Berlin

Synopsis: Barbara Hershey stars as the "baby maker" of the title. Tish Gray (Hershey) hires herself out to married couple Jay and Suzanne Wilcox (Sam Groom and Collin Wilcox-Horne), who've been unable to conceive a child of their own. Tish agrees to bear the child for them, assuming that her hippie Read More

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Actors: Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young, Red Buttons

Synopsis: A total of nine Academy Award nominations went to this wildly acclaimed, allegorical drama set amongst the contestants in a marathon dance contest during the Great Depression. Gig Young stars as Rocky, the obnoxious emcee for a dance marathon that offers prize money of $1,500, a small fortune Read More

The Twilight Zone: On Thursday We Leave for Home

Actors: James Whitmore, Tim O'Connor, James Broderick, Paul Langton, Jo Helton

Synopsis: Thirty years after leaving Earth, a group of space colonists live a spartan existence on a desolate asteroid. All that keeps these castaways together is the charismatic leadership of Captain William Benteen (James Whitmore), an archetypal "benevolent despot." When a rescue ship arrives to Read More

Leave It to Beaver: Beaver's Prep School

Actors: Madge Kennedy, Doris Packer, Stanley "Tiger" Fafara, Henry Hunter, Larry Adare

Synopsis: Aunt Martha (Madge Kennedy) wants to send Beaver (Jerry Mathers) to a prestigious New England prep school that has graduated many another member of her family. Beaver balks at the idea until Ward (Hugh Beaumont) and June (Barbara Billingsley) tell him of the school's many exciting extracurricular Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Don't Look Behind You

Synopsis: Two young women have been murdered in the woods surrounding the campus of a college, and in each case the victim's body was sliced up in surgical fashion. While the police investigate the possibility that one of the faculty members is the killer, medical student Daphne Grey (Vera Miles) lives in Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Coming, Mama

Synopsis: Lucy Baldwin (Eileen Heckart) hopes to escape her domineering invalid mother (Madge Kennedy) by marrying her new beau, Arthur (Don DeFore). Assuming that Arthur is just a fortune hunter, Lucy's mom refuses to allow the marriage, prompting Lucy to commit murder. Ultimately, Lucy and Arthur are Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Sybilla

Synopsis: Upon wedding the lovely Sybilla (Barbara Bel Geddes), lifelong bachelor Horace Meade (Alexander Scourby) has second thoughts and asks for a divorce. When she refuses to give him one, he begins making entries in his diary, apparently plotting Sybilla's murder. In truth, he is only fantasizing, but Read More

Let's Make Love

Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Tony Randall, Frankie Vaughan, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis: Let's Make Love is a breezy comedy about an off Broadway musical production. Jean-Marc Clement (Yves Montand) is the richest man in the world and looking for someone who loves him instead of his money. He reads in Variety he is to be satirized in the new production and tries out for the part. The Read More

Leave It to Beaver: Beaver the Magician

Actors: Rusty Stevens, Madge Kennedy, Eddie Marr, Joey Scott, Ann Doran

Synopsis: Beaver (Jerry Mathers) shells out good coin for a mail-order magic trick, but no one seems impressed by his conjuring skills. In desperation, Beaver and Larry (Rusty Stevens) put on a mini-magic show for the only person willing to watch: four-year-old Benjie Bellamy (Joey Scott). Larry covers Beav Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Curtains for Me

Synopsis: A nurse (Jane Greer) suspects that something is amiss when her patient, a woman on the verge of recovery, suddenly dies. Nonetheless, the nurse marries the woman's widower, Gilbert Hughes (Jane Greer). Later on, she relates her suspicions to lawyer Paul Brett (Robert Webber), who informs her that Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Graduating Class

Synopsis: Newly hired at a private school, teacher Laura Siddons (Wendy Hiller) suspects that one of her students, a girl named Gloria (Gigi Perreau), is having a clandestine romance. Laura and her gentleman friend, Ben (Robert H. Harris), eventually catch up with Gloria and confirm their suspicions: the Read More

North by Northwest

Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jesse Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis: While having lunch at the Plaza Hotel in New York, advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) has the bad luck to call for a messenger just as a page goes out for a "George Kaplan." From that moment, Thornhill finds that he has stepped into a nightmare -- he is quietly abducted by a Read More

Plunderers of Painted Flats

Synopsis: In this Western, a good-hearted gunfighter helps a young cowboy find the cruel cattle baron who killed his daddy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed

Synopsis: In this comedy, an auto mechanic and a horse trainer successfully steal $30,000 from a bank and squander it. They buy a race horse with the remainder, but need money to train it, so they rob another bank and are caught this time. The bank takes over ownership of the horse, which becomes a big Read More

Leave It to Beaver: The Visiting Aunts

Actors: Madge Kennedy, Irene Tedrow, Frank Bank, Buddy Hart, Stanley "Tiger" Fafara

Synopsis: All week long, Beaver (Jerry Mathers) and Wally (Tony Dow) have been looking forward to attending a local carnival. Alas, on the appointed day, Aunt Martha (Madge Kennedy) imperiously descends upon the Cleaver household with her friend Mrs. Hathaway (Irene Tedrow). As the seconds become minutes Read More

Houseboat

Actors: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Harry Guardino, Eduardo Ciannelli

Synopsis: Cary Grant scored still another box-office smash with his 1958 vehicle Houseboat. Grant plays a widowed father who packs himself and his spoiled kiddies off to a ramshackle houseboat. Enter Sophia Loren, who is attempting to break loose from her tyrannical father's (Eduardo Cianelli) iron grip. Read More

Leave It to Beaver: Beaver's Short Pants

Actors: Madge Kennedy, William Schallert, Eric Snowden, Stanley "Tiger" Fafara, Rusty Stevens

Synopsis: Former silent film star Madge Kennedy makes her first series appearance as the Cleaver boys' imperious Aunt Martha. While June (Barbara Billingsley) is out of town visiting her sister Peggy, Aunt Martha agrees to look after Beaver (Jerry Mathers) and Wally (Tony Dow). Unfortunately, she also uses Read More

Leave It to Beaver: Train Trip

Actors: Karl Swenson, Madge Kennedy, Ken Osmond, Joseph Crehan, Alan Reynolds

Synopsis: After visiting their Aunt Martha (Madge Kennedy), Beaver (Jerry Mathers) and Wally (Tony Dow) were supposed to use the money given them by their dad to purchase two train tickets home. Alas, their train is delayed, and in the interim the boys spend all their cash on hot dogs and ice cream. How are Read More

Three Bad Sisters

Actors: Kathleen Hughes, Sara Shane, John Bromfield, Jess Barker

Synopsis: In this steamy drama, three sisters learn that their father has died in a plane crash, and they begin fighting over his enormous estate to see who is to be the principal heiress. One of the sisters is particularly wicked. Wanting it all for herself, she maims one of her siblings so badly that the Read More

The Catered Affair

Actors: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, Barry Fitzgerald, Rod Taylor

Synopsis: Bette Davis goes the "kitchen sink drama" route in The Catered Affair. As the frowsy wife of Bronx cabdriver Ernest Borgnine, Davis insists that her daughter Debbie Reynolds have a high-class wedding--caterers and all. Reynolds and future hubby Rod Taylor want a simple ceremony, but Davis' mind is Read More

Lust for Life

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane

Synopsis: This filmed biography of Vincent Van Gogh was adapted by Norman Corwin from the best-selling novel by Irving Stone, which was in turn inspired by the written correspondence between Van Gogh and his brother Theo. Kirk Douglas plays the tormented genius, whose obsessive devotion to his art engulfs Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Help Wanted

Synopsis: In dire need of money for his wife's operation, Mr. Crabtree (John Qualen) accepts a job from a certain Mr. X (played by a decidedly pre-Bonanza Lorne Greene). Crabtree's assignment should he decide to accept it (as if he has any choice) is to murder a blackmailer. Our hero goes along with scheme Read More

The Rains of Ranchipur

Actors: Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, Joan Caulfield, Michael Rennie

Synopsis: After The Rains Came (1939), this epic romantic melodrama was the second version of author Louis Bromfield's novel to get the deluxe, big-budget treatment from Twentieth Century Fox. Lana Turner stars as Lady Edwina Esketh, the spoiled and hedonistic wife of Lord Esketh (Michael Rennie), a British Read More

Main Street to Broadway

Actors: Mary Murphy, Agnes Moorehead, Herb Shriner, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: A genuine novelty, MGM's Main Street to Broadway offers the modern viewer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of the 1953 theatrical scene. The main plot concerns aspiring playwright Tony Monaco (Tom Burton), who pins his future on the possibility that Tallulah Bankhead will star in his first Read More

The Marrying Kind

Actors: Judy Holliday, Aldo Ray, Madge Kennedy, Sheila Bond, John Alexander, Mickey Shaughnessy, Griff Barnett

Synopsis: A master blend of comedy, domestic drama and sudden tragedy, The Marrying Kind remains one of the best collaborations between star Judy Holliday, screenwriters Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, and director George Cukor. The film begins at the end, with married couple Florence and Chet Keefer (Judy Holliday Read More

Oh, Baby!

Actors: Little Billy, David Butler, Madge Kennedy, Creighton Hale, Ethel Shannon

Synopsis: "Little Billy" Fitzgerald, the talented midget best known for his villainous portrayal in the deathless novelty western Terror of Tiny Town, stars in the nonsensical farce Oh Baby. Little Billy plays a prizefight manager who is talked into posing as a female baby so that a friend can claim an Read More

Lying Wives

Actors: Clara Kimball Young, Richard Bennett, Madge Kennedy, Edna Murphy, Niles Welch

Synopsis: Patricia Chase (Clara Kimball Young) ignores her husband, Alvin (J. Barney Sherry), in favor of the younger, better-looking Wallace Graham (Niles Welch). Graham, however, is in love with Margery Burkley (Madge Kennedy), a stenographer. The young couple marry, but Patricia is determined to destroy Read More

Scandal Street

Actors: Madge Kennedy, Niles Welch, Louise Carter, Moy J. Bennett, Coit Albertson

Synopsis: Madge Kennedy's spirited personality is wasted in this heavy-handed drama. She plays Sheila Kane, the actress wife of film star Neil Keeley (Niles Welch). Keeley, a womanizer and heavy drinker, severely neglects both his wife and his work. Along comes Harrison Halliday (Welch, in a dual role) Read More

Bad Company

Actors: Madge Kennedy, Bigelow Cooper, Conway Tearle, Lucille Lee Stewart, Charles Emmett Mack

Synopsis: Madge Kennedy stars as actress Gloria Waring, who is trying to save her brother, Dick Reynolds (Charles Emmett Mack), from the fortune-hunting Teddy Lamont (Lucille Lee Stewart). To get her hands on her father's will, she disguises herself and holds up James Hamilton (Conway Tearle) and his Read More

Purple Highway

Actors: Madge Kennedy, Monte Blue, Vincent Coleman, Pedro de Cordoba, Emily Fitzroy

Synopsis: This light comedy is based on the stage play Dear Me written by Luther Reed and Hale Hamilton. Madge Kennedy returned from Broadway to star in this picture, but she would go back to the theater to co-star with W.C. Fields in Poppy. Mr. Quail, a wealthy philanthropist (William H. Tooker), founds a Read More

The Truth

Synopsis: Becky Warder (Madge Kennedy) habitually tells white lies, and this eventually lands her in hot water with her husband Tom (Thomas Kerrigan). She has been trying to reunite an estranged couple, Fred and Eve Lindon (Kenneth Hill and Helen Greene). But Frank, who is a womanizer, misunderstands her Read More

Girl with a Jazz Heart

Actors: Madge Kennedy, Joe King, William Walcott

Synopsis: Stage luminary Madge Kennedy stars in this early flapper comedy as a girl forced to marry an unworthy young man in order for her greedy relatives to assume control over her finances. Escaping to New York, Miriam Smith changes her name to Kittie Swasher, takes up with a couple of high-living Read More

Dollars and Sense

Synopsis: Hazel Farron (Madge Kennedy) is a chorus girl with high moral standards -- a novel concept to 1920 audiences. Even though the season is over and she is broke, she refuses the attentions of a rich banker (Willard Louis). With her last two cents, she goes to a bakery and winds up meeting David Read More

Daughter of Mine

Synopsis: In this silent romance, an Orthodox Jewish girl falls in love with a Christian fellow, an aspiring author. The girl's traditional father is outraged and forbids the relationship; the broken-hearted suitor leaves her. Not long afterward, she gets a job at a publishing house and using her Read More

Service Star

Synopsis: A lovely and poignant production still of star Madge Kennedy is virtually all that remains of the WWI romantic drama The Service Star. Evidently inspired by James M. Barrie's The Old Lady Shows Her Medals, the story concerns Marilyn March (Kennedy), a lonely small-town girl who yearns to display Read More

The Fair Pretender

Synopsis: Goldwyn Studios' favorite leading lady Madge Kennedy plays the title role in Fair Pretender. Kennedy stars as a young woman of modest means, posing as a millionairess in order to attend a hoity-toity society ball, where she hopes to snare a rich husband. Here she meets handsome young Tom Moore Read More

Our Little Wife

Synopsis: In one of her first starring vehicles for Goldwyn, Madge Kennedy plays Dodo, who embarks upon her European honeymoon in the company of her new husband. But when she returns, she is being escorted by three of her ex-boyfriends. Her husband tries to be understanding, especially when Dodo explains Read More

A Perfect Lady

Synopsis: Madge Kennedy plays a burlesque actress who winds up stranded in a very small-minded small town and tries, nevertheless, to make a living there. She needs to earn the money -- she's putting her little sister (Mae McAvoy) through college. The actress runs into opposition from a moral deacon, who Read More

Nearly Married

Synopsis: Nearly Married was based on a stage comedy by Edgar Selwyn, best known today as the co-founder of Goldwyn Studios. Newlyweds Harry and Betty (Frank Thomas and Madge Kennedy) split up before their union can be consummated when wifey insists that her lawyer brother accompany the couple on their Read More

Baby Mine

Synopsis: Margaret Mayo's stage hit Baby Mine was a very slight piece, but evidently held out infinite fascinations for filmmakers: no fewer than three movie adaptations were made between 1917 and 1928. In this first version, Madge Kennedy plays a young bride whose husband (Frank Morgan) walks out after a Read More