Dancer

Mae Murray

American actress, dancer, film producer, screenwriter (1885–1965)

Born 1885 · PortsmouthDied 1965United States
Mae Murray
Image: Henry Waxman · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Mae Murray was an American dancer, born in 1885 in Portsmouth, who died in 1965.

Biography

Mae Murray (born Marie Adrienne Koenig; May 10, 1885 – 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".

Marking her screen debut in To Have and to Hold (1916), Murray rose to prominence as a major film star and was one of Hollywood's leading actresses during the late 1910s and early 1920s.

From the Wikipedia article “Mae Murray”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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