MAE MURRAY (1889-1965) Known as the vainest woman in motion pictures, the 'self-enchanted' Mae Murray began her career at age thirteen dancing in Murray's cabaret where she appropriated her last name. She was nineteen when she was featured in the 1908 Ziegfeld Follies. Her conspicuous presence in the Follies from 1908 to 1915 made her a New York fixture. Along with Irene Castle and Ann Pennington, Murray instigated the popular craze for dancing that seized the American populace in the 1910s, being particularly famous for the hesitation and the one-step. A strangely attractive blonde, famous for her tousled main, 'bee-stung' lips, heavy eyelids, and well turned legs, she became a Broadway sensation. A sensualist who said 'beauty, rhythm, sex . . . are my religion,' Murray had an ecstatic personality that communicated on screen in the famous waltz scene in Eric Von Stroheim's 'The Merry Widow' or in the promenading in 'Fashion Row' (1924), or hoofing in an eastern European carnival in 'Jazz Mania.' Off stage or off set she seethed temperament, falling in and out love with breathtaking rapidity and intensity, and galvanizing the American court system in a life-long series of law suits over anything that she found disagreeable.