Mae Murray
Mae Murray, actually Marie Adrienne Koenig ( born May 10, 1889 in Portsmouth, Virginia; † March 23, 1965 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California ) was an American actress and dancer.
Life
Mae Murray began her career in 1906 as a stage actress in the Broadway Show About Town. Two years later she was the Ziegfeld Follies dancer group and rose to 1915 on the individual dancer. In 1916 she made her debut as a film actress in To Have and to Hold by George Melford. Many of her films included on them tailored dance routines, especially those of her third husband, Robert Z. Leonard, under whose direction they played to 1924 of 1917 almost exclusively. In 1922, she earned an approximately $ 10,000 per week. She was one of the most successful stars of the old Metro Studios, as this 1924 merged with other companies to MGM. Most of their productions during this time produced by Tiffany their own society and often negotiated by love affairs in high society. 1925 was the actress who was popular because of their painted heart-shaped mouth as The Girl with the bee- EQUIPMENT lips, at the height of her career. She had her still most famous role as Sally O'Hara in Erich von Stroheim's version of the operetta The Merry Widow.
A year later she finished after some violent clashes with Louis B. Mayer their existing contract, although their stripes Valencia was one of the biggest successes of the year. The titular song is still played often today. Mayer continued the actress then on an industry-wide "black" list, so that she was offered no more roles. Her last strip for the studio was a romantic comedy titled Altars of Desire. The reason for the breach of contract her husband, the Georgian Prince David Mdivani is suspected from the Mdivani clan. The marriage with a real nobleman was among female Hollywood stars since Gloria Swanson's marriage to the Marquis de la Falaise in 1924 as chic; Pola Negri was through marriage in the Murray Mdivani family -law. With the beginning of the sound era the career of Mae Murray finally ended. She had her last film role as supporting actress in 1931. Shortly afterwards, Murray divorced from Mdivani. In a bitter marriage war she lost at the end of both the custody of her son as well as her entire fortune.
1949 was considering Billy Wilder, among others Mae Murray forgotten silent film star Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard to occupy. Murray became well known comment about the character of Norma: " None of us floozies what ever did nuts" ( in German " Neither of us has ever been so crazy bitch !"). In the early 1950s it was found asleep on a park bench, completely forgotten and impoverished. Her biography The Enchanted Self has been largely ignored by the public end of the decade.
Mae Murray died 1965 in Woodland Hills in the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, a nursing home for people from the film industry in California.