Mae Murray Trivia
She was often referred to as "The Girl With The Bee-Stung Lips" and "The Gardenia of Hollywood."
Mae Murray was 5'2
She was the sister-in-law of Pola Negri and Barbara Hutton.
At her 1926 marriage to Prince David Mdvani, Rudolph Valentino was her best man and Pola Negri was her matron of honor.
She has two grandaughters named Pamela and Cynthia.
In 1941 she filed a lawsuit and injunction against producer Billy Rose, seeking 1$50,000 in damages for impersenaiton.
The Supreme Court ruled unaimously in her favor, awarding her $30,000 in her suit against Fox Theatre Corporations in 1933.
She was a member on the board of trustees for the Motion Picture and Television Fund in the early 1920s. Ironically she herself would receive aid from the fund years later.
For a period, Mae Murray wrote a weekly column in the newspaper for William Hearst.
Though in 1926 she was worth $3,000,000, Mae Murray filed for bankruptcy in 1946.
In 1940 she won a bitter custody battle, after he 13 year-old sone chose to remain at a neighbors home instead of his mothers in 1939. Murray was granted custody over her son Koran. Her former husband was forced to pay $400 in child support a month.
Bebe Daniels, Betty Grable. Carole Lombard, Lana Turner, Mae Murray, Myrna Loy, Olivia de Havilland, William Powell
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