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Profile of Mae Clarke
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16th August 1910 |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Mae Clarke was born Violet Mary Klotz on August 16, 1910 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Mae Clarke started her career as a dancer. She stared in many films for Warner Brothers, including the original The Front Page (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Frankenstein (1931).
She may be best known for her leading role in the 1931 James Whale pre-Code production of Waterloo Bridge (1931) as "Myra Deauville", an Englishwoman forced to become a prositute during WWI who meets a man of a higher class and station who is unaware of her background and they fall in love. All ends tragically however. The movie also starred a very young Bette Davis in a small role and British actress Ethel Griffies as Myra's heartless landlady.
The movie was sanitized in the Vivien Leigh (1940) remake.
Her first husband was Fanny Brice's brother, Lewis, whom she married in 1928. She went on to marry Stevens Bancroft and Herbert Langdon, but all the marriages ended in divorce. She had no children.
The beautiful Clarke died on April 29, 1992 at the age of 81 from cancer in Woodland Hills, California.
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