Mae Murray Articles

Renée Adorée, John Gilbert in King Vidor's The Big Parade (top); John Gilbert, Greta Garbo in Clarence Brown's Flesh and the Devil (bottom) John Gilbert on TCM: QUEEN CHRISTINA, DOWNSTAIRS Here are my top recommendations for John Gilbert Day (in addition to Queen Christina, mentioned in the previous post): Victor Sjöström's touching, poetic He Who Gets Slapped (1924), which features my favorite Lon Chaney performance [...]

Mae Murray shows her legs in The Merry Widow At The Bioscope: Pordenone Film Festival Day I "The main event, though, is the Erich Von Stroheim version of The Merry Widow (USA 1925), introduced by Leatrice Joy Fountain and featuring a new orchestral score by Maud Nelissen. The film itself is almost a checklist of Von’s obsessions; militaria, aristocrats at play, wedding processions, grotesques, fetishes [...]

BACHELOR APARTMENT (1931) Direction: Lowell Sherman. Screenplay: Story by John Howard Lawson; adaptation and dialogue by J. Walter Ruben. Cast: Lowell Sherman, Irene Dunne, Mae Murray, Ivan Lebedeff, Norman Kerry GIRLS GONE MILD Womanizing businessman Wayne Carter is hardly a looker, but he's got them dollar bills. Loads of them. The only woman in New York City left unimpressed by his millions is, of all [...]