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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.
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A superstar from day one of her career, "the girl with the bee-stung lips" was never forced to "pay her dues." The glamorous Mae Murray's first footfall on stage stopped the Ziegfeld Follies. She proceeded to reach the pinnacle of silent cinema superstardom, performing in more than 40 popular programmers. Her performance in Erich von Stroheim's l925 "The Merry Widow" boasted the largest box office for any studio that year, and would remain the most successful film either artist ever made.
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On the night of July 25, 1946, George and Mae Murray Dorsey and Roger and Dorothy Malcolm were driving down Treadwell Bridge Road in rural Walton County. Malcolm allegedly had stabbed a white man in a fight days before.
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Mae Murray is nothing if not a careful driver--careful of others. She had much rather run her car up a tree than even startle a stray dog--she'd even prefer to hurdle the dog.
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The Moore’s Ford Memorial Committee is dedicated to finding those persons responsible for the deaths of George and Mae Murray Dorsey and Roger and Dorothy Malcom. On July 25, 1946, these four blacks were reportedly shot hundreds of times by 12 to 15 unmasked white men in broad daylight at the Moore’s Ford Bridge, which spans the Apalachee River, connecting Walton County with Oconee County. No one was ever convicted.
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Mae Murray, 75, is dead. She's an old-time movie star who became famous as 'The Merry Widow" in 1926. This was a glamorous picture and she was a glamorous star. Mae Murray was perfect in the part and she continued to live that role long after her beauty and her money and her way of life departed.
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