Madeline Hurlock - Vampire

 Some of the most overlooked actresses of Hollywood's golden age are those that played leading ladies to male comedians. However, to hold your own with some of the screen's best comedians is truly a talent. Madeline Hurlock was able to hold her own with the likes of Harry Langdon and Laurel and Hardy. Her films with Harry Langdon are personal favorites of mine. She also worked with some overlooked but talented comedians like Ben Turpin and Billy Bevan. She was one of the most popular and often used leading ladies at the Mack Sennett studio in the 1920's and appeared in many Sennett produced short comedies. 

The following is an article from a 1925 issue of Photoplay magazine. If you have trouble reading the following page click on the pages below and use your touch screen too zoom in. If you don't have a touch screen click here.




 

Here are a couple of her short films with Harry Langdon. 

Here is one of the shorts she made with comedian Ben Turpin.

She would appear in the first film in which Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy truly work as a team, Duck Soup (1927). 

Madline was born on December 12, 1897, in Federalsburg, Maryland and passed away on April 4, 1989, at the age of 91. She was married three times. First to army sergeant John S. McGovern, then to playwright Marc Connelly and finally to playwright and critic, Robert B. Sherwood. The final marriage would last to his death in 1955 (at the age of 59).