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Ankerich, Michael G., 1962-
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Murray, Mae, 1885-1965.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
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Mae Murray : the girl with the bee-stung lips / Michael G. Ankerich ; foreword by Kevin Brownlow.
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Ankerich, Michael G., 1962-
Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, c2013.
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Murray, Mae, 1885-1965.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780813136905 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813136903 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Series:
Screen classics (Lexington, Ky.)
Description:
xi, 376 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Untangling Mae Murray's tangled beginnings, 1885-1899 -- Dancing into the new century, 1900-1907 -- Ziegfeld and the millionaire, 1908-1911 -- Life is a cabaret, 1912-1914 -- From footlights to kliegs, 1915 -- The disillusions of a dream girl, 1916 -- Ready for my close-ups, Mr. Lasky!, 1917 -- The delicious little Mae, 1918-1919 -- On with the dance, 1920 -- Strutting like a peacock through Tiffany's, 1921-1922 -- Mae the enchantress, 1923-1924 -- the merry widow and the dirty Hun, May 1924 March 1925 -- From merry widow to gay divorcée, 1925 -- Princess Mdivani, 1926 -- The lion's roar, the baby's cry, 1927 -- A world of cheap imitations, 1928 -- The sound of bee-stung lips, 1929-1931 -- Oh, brother!, 1932 -- From a prince to a toad, 1933 -- Losing Koran, 1934-1940 -- Outliving fame, 1941-1957 -- Self-enchantment, 1958 -- 1960 -- A star in twilight, 1961-1965 -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Professional theater -- Filmography.
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Presents the life of the silent-movie star who got her start as a dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies but descended into poverty and mental instability following the introduction of talkies, failed marriages, and legal battles.
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