1931
Search results
Mae Murray (born Marie Adrienne Koenig; May 10, 1885 – March 23, 1965) was an American actress, dancer, film producer, and screenwriter. Murray rose to fame during the silent film era and was known as "The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips" and "The Gardenia of the Screen".
Mae Murray. Actress: The Merry Widow. Dubbed "The Girl with the Bee Stung Lips" and "The Gardenia of the Screen," silent screen star Mae Murray was born in New York City as Marie Adrienne Koenig on May 10, 1885.
Mar 8, 2023 · Mae Murray, born Marie Adrienne Koenig, would go on to become an above-the-title star and Hollywood pioneer. Even though movie audiences have mostly forgotten her, at the height of her career she was a major draw, dubbed “The Gardenia of the Screen” and “The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips”—but she started a long way from Hollywood.
Aug 29, 2013 · Michael Ankerich was at Book Soup to talk about his new book on silent film actress Mae Murray, "the girl with the bee-stung lips." Joining him with a marve...
by Artemis Willis. Actress Mae Murray’s famous epithet, “The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips” describes far more than her cupid-bowed mouth; it evokes something unusual, distracting, and for some of her fans perhaps even overwhelming. Also known as “The Gardenia of the Screen,” Murray’s presence can be considered excessive and baroque ...
Whimsical silent-film star Mae Murray was born on May 10, 1885, in Portsmouth, Virginia. The daughter of Austrian and Belgian immigrants, she was originally named Marie Adrienne Koenig, although she would later claim that she had always been Mae Murray. She began dancing in childhood and when she was about 21 appeared on Broadway in About Town.
Biography by AllMovie [+] "Once you become a star, you are always a star," Mae Murray once stated, and she fully believed in that credo for the rest of her life -- despite having made her final film in 1931, and the final successful one in 1925. Publicized by Florenz Ziegfeld in the 1910s as the "Girl With the Bee-Stung Lips," Murray had made a ...
