Madge Kirby

Acting

Madge Kirby

Born 1883-12-30 · Norfolk, England, UK

Acting credits

The Musketeers of Pig Alley poster
6.1

A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.

The Musketeers of Pig Alley

1912

No artwork available
NR

Roy Norris, a young author, proposes to pretty Mary Ford and is accepted. The first year or more of their married life is one of bliss, made all the sweeter by the arrival of their first-born. The little trio, father, mother, baby, are bound together by love, until unreasonable jealousy possesses the young couple. While at work in his studio, the young author is visited by his wife just as he is complimenting his stenographer on her valuable aid, and from this the wife sees grounds tor suspicion. On the other hand, the young husband, seeing his wife talking to a stranger, becomes suspicious.

The One She Loved

1912

The New York Hat poster
5.6

To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a stylish hat, and gossip spreads through the town.

The New York Hat

1912

The Telephone Girl and the Lady poster
5.7

D.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The film focuses on a telephone girl who leaves work for her lunch break at the same time as "The Lady" goes to a jewelry store to pick up some priceless jewels. When the telephone girl returns to work she gets a phone call from the house of "The Lady" as a robber has broken in and is trying to steal the jewels.

The Telephone Girl and the Lady

1913

Babes and Boobs poster
NR

A young couple and their new baby are walking down the street when the wife decides to stop in at a store, and the husband agrees to wait outside with the baby in the carriage. He spots a pretty maid sitting on a bench with a baby in the same kind of carriage and goes over to flirt with her.

Babes and Boobs

1918

My Baby poster
5.5

When the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the only one left, in outraged spirit promises never to leave her father, but soon she too is departing for a new home. Then comes a cold hard fact of life. The son-in-law claims his right to make a home alone for his wife. In his bitterness and anger, the father denies them both the house. Several years later the lonely old man meets at the gate a babe in arms. When he learns whose baby it is, heart hunger craves another sight, and sought, brings with it the only natural result.

My Baby

1912

No artwork available
7.0

A crooked lawyer sells his car.

An Auto Nut

1919

The Flash of Fate poster
2.0

When his father commits suicide after being ruined by dishonest stockbroker Abner Hinman, Randolph Shorb resolves to gain revenge and rebuild his fortune by whatever means necessary.

The Flash of Fate

1918

Bears and Bad Men poster
5.1

Bears and Bad Men is a 1918 silent comedy film directed by Larry Semon[1] and featuring Stan Laurel.

Bears and Bad Men

1918

No artwork available
NR

Mystic Mush silent comedy

Mystic Mush

1920

The Painted Lady poster
5.7

A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems interested in her. However, unknown to her, he is a burglar who is only interested in breaking into her father's house. One night she is awakened by a noise.

The Painted Lady

1912

Heredity poster
NR

Nine-year-old Nedda is a direct descendant of the Trevors, a family that can trace its roots back to the reign of King Charles I. Alas, the Trevors suffer severe financial reverses, and Nedda is yanked from the luxury of her ancestral home in Britain to be raised on New York's Lower East Side. Ten years later, the grown-up Nedda stands accused of the murder of her mother.

Heredity

1912

Hopping Bells poster
10.0

The misadventures of a hotel bell hop played by Hank Man

Hopping Bells

1920

Bathing Beauties and Big Boobs poster
6.0

A man decides to stage a fake robbery in front of his girlfriend's father (who doesn't like him), hoping it will make the father change his opinion. Unfortunately, real crooks wind up taking the money from the "robbery", and the boyfriend has to get it back.

Bathing Beauties and Big Boobs

1918

Broken Bubbles poster
10.0

A poor chap, with only fifty cents, hesitates whether to buy a meal with it or visit a fortune teller. He chooses the latter, and gazing into a crystal globe, he is told to follow the horses. He is then shown working around a racing stable, and, of course, rides the heroine's horse to victory. That night they decide to celebrate in a cabaret, where several amusing complications ensue.

Broken Bubbles

1920

Naughty Nurses poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Naughty Nurses

1920

The Hungarian Nabob poster
5.0

After Count John Karpathy, belovedly known as the Nabob, falls ill while entertaining the peasants of his estate, his dissolute nephew and sole heir, Count Bela, comes home from Paris to acquire his inheritance. The Nabob recovers and, after hearing Bela's plan to squander the money, resolves not to give Bela anything while he lives.

The Hungarian Nabob

1915

The Noodle Nut poster
NR

Whoever can make the sale of an order for noodles exactly five feet long to the customer in the black beard and white carnation gets to marry the boss' beautiful daughter, Madge Kirby

The Noodle Nut

1921

Bertha, the Buttonhole-Maker poster
6.3

The boss, a villain, intends to have the beautiful buttonhole-maker for his own. He fires her sweetheart, and by a flimsy pretense, gets Bertha alone with him in the factory. After many exciting scenes the hero rescues his love.

Bertha, the Buttonhole-Maker

1914

The Nickel Snatcher poster
NR

Hank Mann is the conductor of a horse-drawn trolley that carries a motley assortment of passengers to the beach at Venice in California, where the plot becomes involved with a bank robbery.

The Nickel Snatcher

1920

The Janitor poster
7.5

A mild-mannered, well-meaning but bumbling janitor gets unwittingly involved in a battle between two opposing political groups, with each side trying to use him to destroy the other, and the secret police--who have already thrown him out of their office when he worked there--watching all of them.

The Janitor

1919

The Gum Riot poster
NR

The action takes place in a gum factory. By a peculiar accident, a bootlegger attempting to avoid the keen eye of an officer of the law, holds a bottle of liquor so that its contents drop into a vat in which the gum is being prepared. It is when the gum is finished and ready to chew that the riot starts.

The Gum Riot

1920

No artwork available
4.5

The Roman setting provides ample opportunity for a very high concentration of gag titles, many of which are quite witty and many of which are quaint for deriving their humor from the juxtaposition of having ancient Romans use a lot of hip 1918-era slang. The whole thing is an excuse for a good send-up of how the Roman Empire has been depicted in "serious" plays, movies, &c.

Romans and Rascals

1918

Hot Dogs poster
5.0

Born in Russia, vaudeville acrobat Hank Mann acrobat accustomed without efforts towards American film comedy to become a star comic for several studios. Like Ben Turpin, his trademark was a brush moustache, too large, even for comedy standards.

Hot Dogs

1920