Madeline Hurlock was a silent film

Silent film

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 actress, hailing from Federalsburg

Federalsburg, Maryland

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, Maryland

Maryland

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Hurlock appeared in many short comedies for Mack Sennett

Mack Sennett

Mack Sennett was a Canadian-born American director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy"...

, starting as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties in 1923, and was one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars

WAMPAS Baby Stars

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 of 1925. She was a talented comedian

Comedian

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, also known for her incredible beauty. She appeared in over 50 short films, the first of which Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? was made in 1923, the last Pink Pajamas in 1929.She featured in one of Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy

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's earliest films, Duck Soup

Duck Soup (1927 film)

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Hurlock married three times:

• John S. McGovern, divorced 1924.
• Marc Connelly
  Marc Connelly
  Marcus Cook Connelly was an American playwright, director, producer, performer, and lyricist. He was a key member of the Algonquin Round Table, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930.-Biography:...
  
  , married 1930, divorced 1935. Connelly won the Pulitzer Prize
  Pulitzer Prize
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   for his play The Green Pastures in 1930.
• Robert E Sherwood, married 1935. Sherwood won the Pulitzer Prize
  Pulitzer Prize
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  four times; he died in 1955.