- Husband was theatrical manager and also brother of writer C.M.S. McLellan.
- Her film career, which she began in 1913, concentrated exclusively in Germany.
- When Madge Lessing went to England she concentrated to the theater again.
- The actress Madge Lessing was able to celebrated many successes as a stage actress at the end of the 19th century.
- The director of all her movies was always the outstanding Max Mack.
- In interviews she claimed that she had run away from home to go on the stage travelling from London to the United States in about 1890 where she was a chorus girl at Koster and Bial's Music Hall in New York.
- She remained at the Metropol in Berlin for four years until the outbreak of World War I forced her to return to England where she played in the London production of Sleeping Partners and the leading role in The Girl from Ciro's.
- She was a British stage actress and singer, panto principal boy and postcard beauty of Edwardian musical comedy.
- Madge Lessing had a successful career in the West End in London, Europe and on Broadway from 1890 to 1921 and she made a number of early film appearances in Germany for director Max Mack.
- In May 1896 she opened in the musical revue In Gay New York at the Casino Theatre in New York. It was written by C. M. S. McLellan, who would later become her brother-in-law.
- In 1920 she returned to the United States, where she played again in Erminie at the Park Theatre in New York in 1921. This was her last known performance on the professional stage.
- In 1900 she appeared in the title role in the two act operetta The Lady Slavey by Gustave Kerker and George Dance when that musical farce was revived in Boston and as Anita Tivoli in The Monks of Malabar.
- Christmas 1900 saw Lessing make her London début as Princess Beauty in the annual children's pantomime The Sleeping Beauty and the Prince at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane which ran for 134 performances.
- An early and successful role was as the principal boy Jack Hubbard in Klaw and Erlanger's "extravaganza in three acts and six scenes" Jack and the Beanstalk which ran for 64 performances at the Casino Theatre in New York in 1896 and in 1898 at the Boston Museum in Boston and the Lafayette Square Opera House in Washington, D.C.
- Lessing was the dance partner to Will Bishop in the Berlin Metropol revue Chauffeur-ins Metropol in 1912. While in Berlin she appeared in a number of films for director Max Mack including as Fritzl Lustig in The Blue Mouse (1913), Lolotte in Where Is Coletti? (1913) and Gusti in A World Without Men (1914).
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