Madlaine Traverse (born Mary Businsky, August , - January , ) was an
American stage and screen actress from Cleveland, Ohio. In the course
of her career she is alternately billed as "Madaline Traverse",
"Madeline Traverse" and "Madeline Travers".Traverse was a leading lady
of the Fox Film Corporation in the second decade of the twentieth
century. In she played the mother of Mary Pickford in The Poor Little
Rich Girl (). In What Would You Do? () 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 () and Three Weeks (). In she
made her first movie for Madlaine Traverse Productions, Snares of
Paris (), in New York City. 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 . 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.
American stage and screen actress from Cleveland, Ohio. In the course
of her career she is alternately billed as "Madaline Traverse",
"Madeline Traverse" and "Madeline Travers".Traverse was a leading lady
of the Fox Film Corporation in the second decade of the twentieth
century. In she played the mother of Mary Pickford in The Poor Little
Rich Girl (). In What Would You Do? () 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 () and Three Weeks (). In she
made her first movie for Madlaine Traverse Productions, Snares of
Paris (), in New York City. 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 . 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.
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