# Maud Madison
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{{short description|American actress and dancer (1870–1953)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Maud Madison
| image = MaudMadison1916.tif
| alt = Maud Madison, from a 1916 publication.
| caption = Maud Madison, from a 1916 publication.
| birth_name =
| birth_date = November 19, 1870
| birth_place = [San Francisco, California](/source/San_Francisco%2C_California), U.S.
| death_date = October 4, 1953 (aged 82)
| death_place = [Hollywood, California](/source/Hollywood%2C_California), U.S.
| other_names =
| occupation = Dancer, actress
| years_active =
| known_for =
| notable_works =
| children = [Beatrice Maude](/source/Beatrice_Maude)
}}
'''Maud Madison''' (November 19, 1870 – October 4, 1953) was an American actress and dancer.
== Early life ==
Maud Madison was born in [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco), California. She was the daughter of actress and suffragist Julie Reinhardt (1844–1924).[{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30733828/maud_madison_1924/|title=Julie Reinhardt at Rest, as Broadway Still Forgets|date=September 3, 1924|work=Daily News|access-date=April 18, 2019|page=64|via=Newspapers.com}}][{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30736023/julie_reinhardt_and_maud_madison_1924/|title=Aged Suffragist Dies in Poverty|date=August 30, 1924|work=Courier-Post|access-date=April 18, 2019|page=2|via=Newspapers.com}}] She completed studies at the Boucicault School of Acting in 1889.[{{Cite web|url=http://archives.nypl.org/dan/19729|title=archives.nypl.org – Maud Madison papers|website=archives.nypl.org|access-date=2019-04-18}}]
== Career ==
Madison started her stage career as an actress in touring companies, and appeared with English actor [Richard Mansfield](/source/Richard_Mansfield) in [Richard III](/source/Richard_III_(play)).[{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30721861/maud_madison_1893/|title=Clever Maud Madison|date=March 19, 1893|work=Lincoln Evening Call|access-date=April 18, 2019|page=7|via=Newspapers.com}}] she was described primarily as a dancer, specializing in performance of the "crinoline dance"[{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30722108/maud_madison_1893/|title=Dances in a Hoop Skirt|date=February 22, 1893|work=The World|access-date=April 18, 2019|page=6|via=Newspapers.com}}] or [skirt dance](/source/skirt_dance), a popular trend of the day.[{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30721665/maud_madison_1893/|title=The Crinoline Dance|date=March 27, 1893|work=The Baltimore Sun|access-date=April 18, 2019|page=1|via=Newspapers.com}}][Nancy A. Hewitt, "Varieties of Voluntarism: Class, Ethnicity, and Women's Activism in Tampa" in Louise A. Tilly and Patricia Gurin, eds., ''Women, Politics and Change'' (Russell Sage Foundation 1990): 75. {{ISBN|9781610445344|}}] In 1900 she danced with [Loie Fuller](/source/Loie_Fuller) in Paris, at the [Exposition Universelle](/source/Exposition_Universelle_(1900)).[{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30721773/maud_madison_1902/|title=Maud Madison's Entertainment|date=February 7, 1902|work=The Florida Star|access-date=April 18, 2019|page=1|via=Newspapers.com}}] While in Paris, she also danced in a cage of lions as a publicity stunt.[{{Cite journal|last=Hindson|first=Catherine|date=December 2008|title=Interruptions by Inevitable Petticoats: Skirt Dancing and the Historiographical Problem of Late Nineteenth-Century Dance|journal=Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film|volume=35|issue=2|pages=48–64|doi=10.7227/NCTF.35.2.5|s2cid=194069479|issn=1748-3727}}] In 1910, she danced at the opening of the Colonial Opera House in [Hamilton, Bermuda](/source/Hamilton%2C_Bermuda).[{{Cite news|title=Bermuda's New Theatre|date=January 16, 1910|work=The New York Times|page=16 |id={{ProQuest| }} }}]
Inspired by Fuller, Madison took a particular interest in lighting effects and innovative costuming for her performances. She amazed audiences when flags and famous portraits were projected onto her skirts while they whirled and fluttered.[{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30712092/maud_madison_coming/|title=Maud Madison Coming|date=January 25, 1902|work=The Daytona Gazette-News|access-date=April 17, 2019|page=2|via=Newspapers.com}}] "Miss Madison is the originator or many novel effects in ballroom exhibition dances," explained the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' in 1916.[{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30721984/maud_madison_charles_keeler_1916/|title=California Entertainers Score a Hit in New York|last=Erhard|first=Ursinus|date=April 23, 1916|work=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=April 18, 2019|page=42|via=Newspapers.com}}] Madison toured the United States that year, with poet [Charles Keeler](/source/Charles_Keeler),[{{Cite journal|date=August 1916|title=Interesting Personalities in the World of the Stage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZZRAQAAMAAJ&q=Maud%20Madison%20dancer&pg=PA80|journal=The Theatre|volume=24|pages=80}}] interpreting his poems in dances such as "The Harper's Song of Isis" (an Egyptian art-inspired dance), "The Vampire" (a bat-themed dance) and "Princess Papilio" (a butterfly-themed dance).[{{Cite journal|last=Maclay|first=Mira Abbott|date=July 1916|title=Charles Keeler, Poet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hTNAAQAAMAAJ&q=Maud+Madison+dancer&pg=PA68|journal=Overland Monthly|volume=68|pages=68}}] She also taught social dance steps in New York City.[{{Cite news|title=Miss Maud Madison|date=October 9, 1953|work=The New York Times|page=27 |id={{ProQuest| }}}}] A collection of her papers is archived in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the [New York Public Library](/source/New_York_Public_Library).