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Mae Murray started her career dancing with Vernon
Castle in the 1906 Broadway play "About Town".
After the run of the show she became a "Ziegfeld
Girl" in 1908 portraying one of the " Nell
Brinkley Bathing Girl" and by 1915 was one of the star
performers, she stayed with the Follies off and on until
1916. Reportedly, Mae went to Paris to study the popular
dances of the day and made a name for herself while there,
when she returned, the nightclubs quickly started billing
her and her ballroom dances. In 1916 Murray went on to become
a movie star. She began her movie career with the film "To
Have and To Hold" and would gain the nickname "The
Girl with the Bee Stung Lips."
In 1918 she would be paired
up with Rudolph
Valentino in two movies and later with John
Gilbert in the movie titled "The Merry Widow"
which made her a Hollywood celebrity. Murray was reportedly
the creator of the dance "Cinquante-Cinquante".
Mae would eventually get married to Robert Leonard in 1918-?
and Prince David Mdivani in 1926-1933. Her movie career
faded due to an "unattractive" voice in the Talkies
(pictures with sound) as well as her divorce from
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