Category: Madeline Hurlock

While researching Marion McDonald: The Screen Vamp Who Held the Skulls of Men, I encountered Sennett bathing beauty, Madeline Hurlock, another screen vamp who worked in Sennett-Pathé shorts from 1923 to 1928. Mack Sennett, her boss, called her the “wittiest of the bathing beauties.” Once, when she was asked about relinquishing vamp roles in the movies for…