Mae Murray : the girl with the bee-stung lips /

Mae Murray : the girl with the bee-stung lips /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ankerich, Michael G., 1962-
Imprint:	Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, c2013.
Description:	xi, 376 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Screen classics Screen classics (Lexington, Ky.)
Subject:	Murray, Mae, -- 1885-1965. Murray, Mae, -- 1885-1965. Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography. Motion picture actors and actresses. United States. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9108574

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ISBN:	9780813136905 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813136903 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813136912 (pdf) 0813136911 (pdf) 0813136911 (pdf) 9780813140384 (epub) 0813140382 (epub)
Notes:	Includes filmography. Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-363) and index.
Summary:	Presents the life of the silent-movie star who got her start as a dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies but descended into poverty and mental instability following the introduction of talkies, failed marriages, and legal battles.
Standard no.:	40021728439

Table of Contents:

1. Untangling Mae's Tangled Beginnings
2. Dancing into the New Century
3. Ziegfeld and the Millionaire
4. Life is a Cabaret
5. From Footlights to Kliegs
6. The Disillusions of a Dream Girl
7. Ready for my Close-ups, Mr. Lasky!
8. The Delicious Little Mae
9. On with the Dance
10. Strutting Like a Peacock Through Tiffany's
11. Mae, the Enchantress
12. The Merry Widow and the Dirty Hun
13. From Merry Widow to Gay Divorcee
14. Princess Mdivani
15. The Lion's Roar, the Baby's Cry
16. A World of Cheap Imitations
17. The Sound of Bee-Strung Lips
18. Oh, Brother!
19. From a Prince to a Toad
20. Losing Koran
21. Outliving Fame
22. Self Enchantment
23. A Star in Twilight
24. Epilogue