In which of the arts is Madlaine Traverse most notable?

Madlaine Traverse (August 1, 1875 - January 7, 1964) was an American stage and screen actress from Cleveland, Ohio. Mary was her birth name.

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 1917 she played the mother of Mary Pickford in 'The Poor Little Rich Girl' (1917). In the film, 'What Would You Do?' (1920) 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' (1918) and 'Three Weeks' (1914). In 1920 she made her first movie for Madlaine Traverse Productions, 'Snares of Paris' (1919), 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. She became an avid duck hunter in southern California after settling there to make motion pictures.

Madlaine Traverse died in Cleveland in 1964.