Mae Murray publicity photo c.1923-2008
by David Lee Guss
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Mae Murray publicity photo c.1923-2008
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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Mae Murray ( 1885 - 1965) "was an American actress, dancer, film producer, and screenwriter. Murray rose to fame during the silent film era and was known as 'The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips' and 'The Gardenia of the Screen.'"
"Murray's most famous role was perhaps the title role in the Erich von Stroheim directed film The Merry Widow (1925), opposite John Gilbert. When silent films gave way to talkies, Murray made an insecure debut in the new medium in Peacock Alley (1930), a remake of her earlier 1921 version Peacock Alley.
In 1931, she was cast with newcomer Irene Dunne, leading man Lowell Sherman, and with fellow silent screen star Norman Kerry in the talkie Bachelor Apartment. The film was critically panned at the time of release and Murray made only one more film, High Stakes (1931) also with Sherman.
In February 1964, Murray was found disoriented in St. Louis, thinking that she had completed a bus trip to New York. Murray explained to a Salvation Army officer that she had become lost trying to find her hotel, which she had forgotten the name of. She also refused bus fare back to Los Angeles as she claimed to have a ticket for the remainder of the journey in her purse, if she could find it."
Contrary to some accounts she was never offered the role of Norma Desmond (as were Mae West and Mary Pickford) in "Sunset Boulevard." She was reputed to have said, "Us dames were never that nuts."
She lost all her money and died penniless.
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