Mae Marsh

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Birth Name: Mary Wayne Marsh

Born: 9 November 1894 Died: 13 February 1968

Country of origin: United States

Height: 5' 3"

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The Beauty of Silence (500 items)
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Published 12 years, 11 months ago

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Silent Actresses (507 items)
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Published 14 years, 7 months ago

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200 Legendary Actresses (200 items)
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Published 12 years, 7 months ago

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"We didn't need dialogue, we had faces" (52 items)
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Published 13 years, 1 month ago

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Great beauties of the yesteryears! (30 items)
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Published 15 years, 2 months ago

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Description: American actress. Mae Marsh was the daughter of an bartender. She and her family moved to California. Marsh followed her aunt's footsteps by securing film work with Mack Sennett and D.W. Griffith; it was Griffith, the foremost film director of the early silent period, who first spotted potential in young Miss Marsh. The actress got her first big break appearing as a stone-age maiden in Man's Genesis (1911), after Mary Pickford refused to play the part because it called for bare legs. Specializing in dramatic and tragic roles, Marsh appeared in innumerable Griffith-directed short films, reaching a career high point as the Little ... (more)