Mae Murray
Also Known As: Marie Adrienne Koenig, The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips
Biography: American actress and dancer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 10, 1889
Age: 136 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 23, 1965
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A Mormon Maid
Overview: This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woman, and her family are saved from an Indian attack by a Mormon community traveling to Utah. They join the wagon train. Dora is pursued by two men, one a recent convert, the other a scheming elder with a stable of wives. The Mormon elder wants her in his harem. When the mother kills herself from revulsion toward polygamy, the daughter must consider her own future and the man she loves. One of Mae Murray's few surviving films, this was intended by Robert Leonard to be a thoughtful drama about the goods and evils of Mormonism, but today it is generally considered pure anti-Mormon propaganda.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-21
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The Big Little Person
Overview: After Arathea Manning loses her hearing during an epidemic of scarlet fever among the children she teaches, her fiancé Arthur Endicott, who is involved with another woman, complains of always having to shout to make himself heard. An inventor, Gerald Staples, gives Arathea an auriphone, a device to restore her hearing, but one of her problem pupils, in a fit of rage, breaks it. Gerald asks Arathea, whom he calls "The Big Little Person -- small in size, but big in ideas," to be the secretary of his new company marketing the invention. He falls in love with her and plays the piano for her even though she hears only rumblings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-12
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The Masked Bride
Overview: An American millionaire wants to reform a Parisian cabaret singer who moonlights as a jewel thief.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-13
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Married Flirts
Overview: Nelly is so intent on her writing career, that she neglects her appearance and her husband, Wayne. Jill Wetherell, who is looking for a rich husband, finds Wayne to be easy prey and Nelly catches them together. She divorces Wayne and travels to Europe. Jill, however, throws Wayne over for Perley Rex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-27
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The Merry Widow
Overview: When Prince Danilo falls in love with American dancer Sally O'Hara, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco, forbids him to marry her because Sally is a commoner. Thinking she has been jilted by her prince, Sally marries wealthy Baron Sadoja. When the elderly man dies suddenly, Sally must be wooed all over again by Danilo.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-27
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Overview: A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-24
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Jazzmania
Overview: The queen of a mythical European nation flees to America when a general threatens to overthrow her government.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-12
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Bachelor Apartment
Overview: A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-15
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To Have and to Hold
Overview: Lady Jocelyn, a favorite in the court of England's King James, escapes a forced marriage to the hated Lord Carnal by fleeing to American colonies. There she meets and marries Captain Ralph Percy. Pursued by Lord Carnal, Lady Jocelyn and her new husband eventually find themselves shipwrecked on a desert island with Lord Carnal.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-05
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Overview: A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-10
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Modern Love
Overview: Stage actors Della and Julian, while playing a series of one-night-stands, miss their train and the troupe on it. They move into a hotel. A fight breaks out.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-09
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The Delicious Little Devil
Overview: A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she falls in love with the son of a rich businessman. The boy's father, believing her to be after the family's money, determines to embarrass her and show his son what she really is.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-12
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Peacock Alley
Overview: Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him before her impending marriage the following day. When she returns to the hotel with her husband the following night, the house detective accuses her of prostitution and throws them out. Now Claire must explain everything to her unsympathetic husband.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-04
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Altars of Desire
Overview: Mae Murray plays a willful American lass whose wealthy dad (Robert Edeson) sends her to Paris so that she may pick up some "refinement." Instead, she picks up a fortune-hunting nobleman, played as a frivolous fop by a monocled Andre Beranger. True-blue hero Conway Tearle prevents Murray from making a bigger fool of herself than she already is.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-15
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Fascination
Overview: A young woman with a Spanish father and an American mother living in Spain under the supervision of a strict aunt slips out to attend a bullfight. There she becomes fascinated by the toreador Carrita. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-09
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Mademoiselle Midnight
Overview: Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by Napoleon III at Empress Eugenie's insistence to Mexico. Renee is kept locked at the hacienda at night by her father to prevent her following in her grandmother's wayward footsteps. She falls in love with a visiting American (Monte Blue) but is also pursued by the craven outlaw Manuel Corrales. Miss Murray gets to do some of her trademark dancing, but this one isn't a comedy, despite comic relief provided by Johnny Arthur.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-14
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The ABC of Love
Overview: Romance between the playwright Harry Bryant and the homeless and illiterate Kate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-14
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Broadway Rose
Overview: Rosalie Lawrence, a dancing star on Broadway, falls for rich Hugh Thompson. His parents disapprove and want him to marry Barbara Royce, so he and Rosalie marry secretly. However, Hugh isn't quite the man he seems, as Rosalie is soon to find out.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-22
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The Right to Love
Overview: An adulterous aristocrat plans to murder his American wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-05
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High Stakes
Overview: High Stakes is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy drama produced and released by RKO Pictures. The picture was directed by Lowell Sherman who also stars and marks the last starring screen appearance of silent screen diva Mae Murray. It is based on a 1924 Broadway play that starred Sherman playing the same role he plays in this film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-18
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The Twin Pawns
Overview: A drama about twin sisters Daisy and Violet, who grow up unaware of each other's existence, one with their wealthy father and the other with their poor mother. The two sisters are manipulated by a criminal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-18
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Show People
Overview: Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-20
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On with the Dance
Overview: Sonia, a Russian dancer, comes to New York seeking her fortune. She marries Peter Derwynt, a young architect, but their marriage is not a good one. Sonia falls under the spell of a rich Broadway mogul, Jimmy Sutherland, whose wife is in love with Peter. The mix of relationships comes crashing apart when Sutherland ends up murdered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-15
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The French Doll
Overview: Georgine Mazulier, the daughter of a French furniture dealer, is exploited by her father and Snyder, an American hustler, to sell fake antiques to millionaires. When she falls for a gigolo, they take her to America looking for a new mark. They settle on "Kippered Kod" tycoon Wellington Wick as her prospective husband but that plan runs afoul rather quickly.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-03
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Circe the Enchantress
Overview: Mae Murray as a Jazz Age baby who treats men like swine until she falls for the upright doctor living next door.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-06
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Princess Virtue
Overview: The daughter of a disowned upper class Bostonian finds acceptance in Parisian society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-12
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The Bride's Awakening
Overview: A husband orders his wife to keep their marriage a secret, in order to better continue his affair with a married woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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Face Value
Overview: A runaway becomes a thief and is sentenced to a reformatory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-19
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The Gilded Lily
Overview: A hostess at a Broadway cafe marries one of her many suitors, and finds out her new husband is prone to drinking heavily.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-27
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Idols of Clay
Overview: A girl raised isolated from society in the South Seas falls in love with a visiting sculptor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-28
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Valencia
Overview: "Felipe, a sailor falls madly in love with Valencia, a Spanish dancing girl, who is sought after by Don Fernando, the governor. When Felipe deserts his ship, the Don throws him in prison, but Valencia obtains his release and shares his disgrace and exile." Moving Picture World, 8 Jan 1927, p. 144.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-18
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Her Body in Bond
Overview: The cabaret act of husband-and-wife dancing team Peggy and Joe Blondin is broken up when Joe becomes consumptive and is ordered West to recuperate. Peggy remains in New York to maintain the couple's income but gradually becomes desperate when letters sent her by her husband request more and more money. Joe's letters actually are being intercepted and rewritten by millionaire Harlan Quinn, who has designs on Peggy and wishes to portray Joe's situation as hopeless. After receiving a particularly alarming letter, Peggy consents to sell her honor to Harlan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-20
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Peacock Alley
Overview: A young man brings his new worldly Parisian wife back home to Pennsylvania.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-23
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Danger, Go Slow
Overview: Muggsy Mulane, a waif who wears boy's clothing, jumps a freight train to the country after Jimmy "the Eel," the leader of the gang of crooks with whom she works, is arrested. In the village of Cottonville, Muggsy befriends Aunt Sarah, whom she later discovers is Jimmy's mother. When Muggsy learns that the greedy Judge Cotton, who holds the mortgage on Aunt Sarah's property, is planning to foreclose, she threatens to blackmail him, and he relents.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-16
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The Primrose Ring
Overview: Margaret MacLean, who has been saved from life in a wheelchair by the miracle of medicine, vows to devote her life to caring for crippled children. She becomes a nurse in the children's ward of Dr. MacLean's hospital, but after the beloved doctor's death, his son Bob returns home from abroad and decrees that he is closing the ward and that Margaret's little charges must leave the hospital. Furious, Margaret quits her job and storms out, with Bob in pursuit. As he rushes across the street, Bob is struck by a car and must be hospitalized. During his convalescence, he realizes that he is in love with Margaret and decides to have a home built for her and her patients. Unable to locate Margaret, Bob hires detectives, who find her and bring her to the home. There Margaret finds that all her dreams have come true as she sees her little charges happily living in their new home and gladly accepts Bob's proposal of marriage
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-07
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The Scarlet Shadow
Overview: Elena Evans is raised by her puritanical Aunt Elvira, who believes that because of Elena's mother, Elena possesses "the scarlet strain."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-10
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The Dream Girl
Overview: The father of San Francisco waif Meg runs an illegal liquor club and supports "English" Hal in scheme to blackmail a wealthy girl. Meg is put on probation to Benjamin Merton, father of the girl to be blackmailed. When she discovers her father's plan she reveals all, risking expulsion from her new home and the company of its very attractive son Tom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-17
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Kodachrome Two-Color Test Shots No. III
Overview: This two-color (green-blue and red) film was produced as a demonstration reel at the Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, under the direction of Kodak scientist John Capstaff. It features leading actresses, including Mae Murray, Hope Hampton, and Mary Eaton, posing and miming for the camera to showcase the capability of the complex Kodachrome process to capture their translucent movie star complexions and colorful, high-fashion clothing.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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What Am I Bid?
Overview: Betty Yarnell lives with her drunkard father in the North Woods mountains. Betty is shunned by the villagers whenever she ventures out to pick up her father from Abner Grimp's saloon, and her only friend is a little lamb. In debt to Abner, John Yarnell signs a note turning over his daughter to Abner in return for unlimited drinks. When Abner goes to the cabin to claim Betty, revenue officer Ralph McGibbon arrives from the city and rescues her. Abner sends his Indian partner Dark Cloud, but Ralph rescues Betty again, although he is badly beaten up.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-14
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At First Sight
Overview: Famous romance writer Hartly Poole retreats to the country for inspiration. There he meets ardent admirer Justina Chaffin, who is about to marry a fortune-hunting scoundrel. After Justina and Hartly fall in love, she discovers her fiancé's deception and flees to Hartly's cottage. Seeing her car parked in front, the sheriff accuses Hartly of abduction, but all is resolved when Justina and Hartly exchange vows.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-02
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