Madge Titheradge was an actress, born into a theatrical family in Melbourne, Australia.

Biography

Her father was the English-born actor George Sutton Titheradge

George Sutton Titheradge

George Sutton Titheradge was an English-Australian actor.Titheradge was born at Portsea, England, eldest son of George Robert Titheradge and Sarah Isabelle Emblim...

, and the eleven-year-old Madge had already done stage work with Australia's Brough-Boucicault and Bland Holt

Bland Holt

Bland Holt, born Joseph Thomas Holt, was a comedian and theatrical producer, active in Australia.Holt was the son of Joseph Frederick Holt and his first wife Marie, née Brown...

 companies when the family returned to Britain

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 in 1898. She made her London

London

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 stage debut at fifteen,as Second Water Baby in The Water Babies at the Garrick Theatre. She soon became a popular actress and beauty, her photograph adorning many a postcard and cigarette card.

Highlights of her early theatrical career included the part of Princess Katherine in King Henry V with Lewis Waller (1908) and the starring role of Peggy Admaston in A Butterfly upon the Wheel (1911), in which she made her New York debut in 1912. In London in December 1914 she played the name part in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan. After extensive touring in Canada

Canada

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, Australia and the United States

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 in stage productions, often with the Lewis Waller Company, she made her screen debut in the 1915 British film Brigadier Gerard, and in 1916 went to Hollywood to star in A Fair Imposter. Her subsequent Hollywood films included Her Story and the early co-production David and Jonathan, a British funded film shot in a Hollywood studio.

Notable roles in a long career on the London stage included Desdemona in Othello(Ambassadors, 1921), Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House(Playhouse, 1923), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (1926), Nadja in The Queen was in the Parlour by Noel Coward (Criterion, 1927) and Julie Cavendish in Theatre Royal by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman (Shaftesbury 1936).
Madge Titheradge's first marriage, to actor Charles Quartermaine, was dissolved in 1918. In 1928 she married American business man Edgar Park and temporarily retired from the stage, returning in 1932. After her husband's death in 1938 she suffered progressively bad health, and spent the last twenty years of her life as an invalid.

Filmography

• Brigadier Gerard (1915)
• A Fair Impostor (1916)
• The Woman Who Was Nothing (1917)
• God Bless Our Red, White and Blue (1918)
• Gamblers All (1919)
• David and Jonathan (1920)
• Her Story (1920)
• The Husband Hunter (1920)
• Love in the Wilderness (1920)
• A Temporary Gentleman (1920)

External links

• Madge Titheradge at the Internet Broadway Database
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• Madge and Lily: The Titheradge Girls, Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School Alumnae Archives