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Mae Murray

Stage Name

Birth Name
Mae Murray Marie Adrienne Koenig
"The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips" (Jeannie L. Spaulding)
"The Gardenia of the Screen"  

    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 a Ziegfeld Chorus Girl, then 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."

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   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 her 4th husband "prince" David Mdivani.

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring
Portsmouth, VA 5/10/1883(9) - 3/23/1965 Lewis Putnam Strang (1908-10) n/a
            Robert Z. Leonard      
            'Prince' David Mdivani      
 

Dance Types

Dance Partners

Music Titles
Ballroom Amy Revere   n/a  
Charleston Clifton Webb      
Cinquante-Cinquante John Gilbert      
Foxtrot Julian Mitchell (Vampire Dance)      
Jazz Rudolph Valentino      
Merry Widow Waltz Vernon Castle      
Tango Wallace McCutcheon      
Vampire Dance            
Waltz            
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Stage
Billy Rose's Diamond Apollo Theatre (1910) 1906 - About Town
Jardin de Danse (1913) Park Palace (6/4/1923) 1908 - 1915/16 - Ziegfeld Follies
      Shubert Theater 1910 - The Follies of 1910
      Union Theatre (10/29/1923) 1913 - Her Little Highness (w/ McCutcheon)
      Wintergarden Theatre (NY 1910) 1923 - The French Idol
      Ziegfeld Theater 1923 - Jazzmania
            1914 - Follies Marigny (Shubert)
            1941 - The Silver Screen
 

Films

Television

(Other)
1915 - Watch Your Step (replaced Irene Castle) n/a 5/25/1910 - NY Times Section
1916 - To Have and to Hold       1921 #4- Filmjournalen
1917 - A Morman Maid       9/1926 - Photoplay Magazine
1919 - Delicious Little Devel (Valentino)       3/1/1938 - Look Magazine
1919 - Big Little Person (Valentino)       The Self-Enchanted Mae by Murray Jane Ardmore (supposed bio)
1920 - On With The Dance      
1921 - The Gilded Lady            
$1922 - Peacock Alley            
1922 - Broadway Rose            
1923 - Fashion Row            
1923 - The French Doll (La Rocque)            
1923 - Jazzmania (La Rocque)            
1924 - Circe The Enchantress            
1924 - Mademoiselle Midnight            
1925 - The Merry Widow (John Gilbert)            
1925 - Midshipman            
$1928 - Show People            
$1931 - Bachelor Apartment            
$1997 - Vaudeville -DVD            
? - There's A crowd            
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December 29, 2009
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