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First Name

Mae

Last Name

Murray

Build

Slim

Eye Color

Blue

Hair Color

Blonde

Place of Birth

Portsmouth, Virginia

Star Sign

Taurus

Date of Death

23 April 1965

Place of Death

Woodland Hills, California

Cause of Death

Heart Failure

Ethnicity

White

Claim to Fame

The Girl with the Bee Stung Lips

Middle Name

Adrienne

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

Wikipedia Text

Mae Murray (May 10, 1889 � March 23, 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".

Couple Profile

Dubbed "The Girl with the Bee Stung Lips", silent screen actress Mae Murray began her career on stage partnered with ballroom dancing extraordinaire Vernon Castle in the 1906 Broadway show "About Town." Born the daughter of �migr�s, she began studying dance at a young age. Two years later she joined the "Ziegfeld Follies" chorus line and moved up to headliner status by 1915. She played the top clubs in Paris and in America in an act that accentuated her dancing prowess. Other smooth dance partners would follow, including Clifton Webb, Rudolph Valentino and John Gilbert. The strikingly exotic beauty with the frizzy blonde hair moved to films with To Have and to Hold (1916) starring Wallace Reid and quickly became a top star for MGM, pairing up with the legendary Valentino in two films. Many of her films, containing dance sequences designed especially for her, were written and produced by her third husband, Robert Z. Leonard. Her most acclaimed film was The Merry Widow (1925) opposite matin�e idol Gilbert. Married and divorced four times, Mae`s movie career faded with the advent of sound, her voice being not particularly suited to talkies. Her marriage to last husband, Prince David Mdvani, also hastened her downfall when he took control over her business affairs and ill-advisedly got her to quit MGM. They divorced and she lost her son in a nasty custody battle. She grew more eccentric over the years and was eventually forced to declare bankruptcy, living in abject poverty for the better part of her later life. She managed to co-write an autobiography in 1959 entitled "The Self-Enchanted" and ended her days in the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, CA. Although forgotten for the most part, in retrospect, Mae was a popular and vibrant lady in her heyday, becoming of the few Ziegfeld star-dancers to succeed in transferring from the stage footlights to big-screen stardom.

Full Name at Birth

Marie Adrienne Koenig

Friend

Loretta Young

Date of Birth

1889-05-10

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Role ID

Actor/Actress, Producer, Writer

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