Throwback Thursday and Mae Murray
Born on May 10, 1885 as Marie Adrienne
Koenig, Mae Murray was an actress and dancer during the silent film era. She
was called “the girl with the bee-stung lips”. Her career began in 1906 on
Broadway acting with Vernon Castle in the show About Town. By 1908 she was a chorus girl in the Ziegfeld Follies
and by 1915 she was a headliner. Her dance partners included Rudolph Valentino,
Clifton Webb and John Gilbert.
In 1916 she transitioned into movies in To Have and to Hold. Soon she was a star
for MGM, performing with Rudolph Valentino in The Delicious Little Devil. Her list of motion pictures is long,
the last one being High Stakes in
1931. She often had dance sequences choreographed especially for her, often
created by her third husband, Robert Z. Leonard.
But the height of her success was in
silent films, and when talking pictures came in her career began to decline. Her
most famous movie was The Merry Widow in 1925. During the latter part of her
life, she lived in poverty and received assistance from the Motion Picture and Television Fund that
helps those in the entertainment industry without resources. During the peak of
her career, she served on their board of trustees.
Mae Murray died in the Motion Picture House in Woodland Hills
on March 23, 1965. She was 79.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #226:
“Mae Murray was
called ‘the girl with the bee-stung lips’”.
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nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
― Rainer Maria Rilke
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