Profile
Mae Busch
Actress
Female
Born
Jun 18, 1891
Hometown
Melbourne
Died
Apr 20, 1946
Death Place
San Fernando Valley
Other Names
Busch, Annie May
Mae Busch was an Australian film actress who worked in both silent and sound films in early Hollywood. In the latter part of her career, she appeared in many Laurel and Hardy comedies, where she frequently played Hardy's shrewish wife.
Romance
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Thomas c. TateMarried 1935 - 1946
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John Earl CassellMarried 1925 - 1929
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Femmine Folli (Foolish Wives) – Erich Von Stroheim (1922) PaperblogGoogle News - Aug 31, 2011
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Lon Chaney Movie Schedule: The Phantom Of The Opera, Tell It To The Marines ... Alt Film Guide (Blog)Google News - Aug 15, 2011
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Tinseltown As It Saw Itself Bangkok PostGoogle News - Jun 16, 2011
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'Dracula,' 'Mark Of The Vampire' Bring Vintage Bite To Aero Theatre Los Angeles TimesGoogle News - May 18, 2011
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1891
Birth
Born on June 18, 1891.
1900
9 Years Old
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Busch was a member of a musical family. Her father was a conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and her mother was a singer. In 1900 her family moved to America, where she was placed in a convent.
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TWENTIES
1912
21 Years Old
She first appeared in films in The Agitator and The Water Nymph, both released in 1912.
In 1915 she began working at Keystone Studios, where she appeared in comedy two-reelers.
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THIRTIES
1926
35 Years Old
Her career declined abruptly in 1926, when she walked out on her contract at Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer and suffered a nervous breakdown.
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1927
36 Years Old
In 1927, she was offered a leading role in a Hal Roach two-reeler, Love 'em and Weep, which began her long association with Laurel and Hardy.
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FORTIES
Her last role in a Laurel and Hardy film was in The Bohemian Girl, again as a combative spouse of Hardy's, released in 1936.
FIFTIES
1946
55 Years Old
Busch died in 1946, age 54, at a San Fernando Valley sanitarium where she had been ill for five months with colon cancer.
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