Madlaine Traverse
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Madlaine Traverse (August 1, 1875-January 7, 1964) was a stage and screen actress from Cleveland, Ohio. Madlaine was her birth name.
[edit] Silent movie actress
Traverse was a leading lady of the Fox Film Corporation in the second decade of the twentieth century. In 1917 she played the mother of Mary Pickford in The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917). In What Would You Do? (1920) director Edmund Lawrence required Traverse to wear the clothes of a Boer woman of South Africa. Lawrence stressed realism to the point of insisting that Traverse not wash her face for several days before her scenes were shot.
Her most successful films are The Caillaux Case (1918) and Three Weeks (1914). In 1920 she made her first movie for Madlaine Traverse Productions, Snares of Paris (1919), in New York. Her wardrobe for the motion picture was purchased in Paris and she stayed in Fort Lee, New Jersey while on location.
Traverse was rescued from drowning while she was bathing at high tide in the Pacific Ocean in October 1918. A man who was swimming nearby noticed Traverse did not come to the surface after struggling with strong waves. He pulled her by her skirt and took her to safety from the water off the coast of Ocean Park, California.
She became an avid duck hunter in southern California after settling there to make motion pictures.
Madlaine Traverse died in Cleveland in 1964.
[edit] References
- Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, Madlaine Traverse Hunts, Sunday Morning, November 23, 1919, Section Four, Page 8.
- Los Angeles Times, Flashes, Star Nearly Drowns, October 4, 1918, Page II3.
- Los Angeles Times, Madlaine Traverse Was Rather Shocked, August 24, 1919, Page III15.
- Los Angeles Times, Madlaine Traverse Plans Costume Innovation, May 13, 1920, Page II7.
