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Mae Busch is a Actor British born on 17 june 1891 at Melbourne (Australie)

Mae Busch

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Birth name Annie May Busch
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 17 june 1891 at Melbourne (Australie)
Death 19 april 1946 (at 54 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Mae Busch (18 June 1891 – 20 April 1946) 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.

Biography

Sa famille s'étant installée en 1900 aux États-Unis, Mae Busch y débute au théâtre dans le répertoire du vaudeville. Elle apparaît pour la première fois au cinéma dans The Agitator, court métrage muet d'Allan Dwan, sorti en 1912. Au total, elle contribue à environ cent-trente films américains (y compris des westerns), le dernier — un petit rôle non crédité, dans Ladies' Man de William D. Russell — sorti en 1947, près d'un an après sa mort.

L'essentiel de sa carrière se situe durant la période du muet (près de soixante-dix films). En particulier, elle joue dans deux films d'Erich von Stroheim, Les Passe-partout du diable (1920, avec Sam De Grasse, réputé perdu) et Folies de femmes (1922, avec Erich von Stroheim). L'un de ses derniers films muets est le court métrage Un ancien flirt de Fred Guiol (1927) ; à cette occasion, elle entame une collaboration avec le duo comique Laurel et Hardy (treize films en tout, dont plusieurs où elle est l'épouse d'Oliver Hardy). Citons également Calvaire d'apôtre de Maurice Tourneur (1923, avec Richard Dix, lui aussi réputé perdu), Name the Man de Victor Sjöström (1924, avec Conrad Nagel), ou encore Le Club des trois de Tod Browning (version de 1925, avec Lon Chaney).

Le premier film parlant de Mae Busch est Alibi de Roland West (1929, avec Chester Morris). Par la suite, l'un de ses films les plus connus est Les Compagnons de la nouba (1933), à nouveau avec Laurel et Hardy, qu'elle retrouve une dernière fois dans La Bohémienne (1936). Sinon, durant sa période parlante, elle interprète uniquement des seconds rôles de caractère, voire des petits rôles non crédités ; ainsi, elle personnifie la Comtesse de La Motte dans Marie-Antoinette de W.S. Van Dyke (1938), face à Norma Shearer dans le rôle-titre.

Pour sa contribution au cinéma, une étoile lui est dédiée sur le Walk of Fame d'Hollywood Boulevard.

Best films

Alibi (1929)
(Actress)

Usually with

Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel
(13 films)
Hal Roach
Hal Roach
(14 films)
Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy
(13 films)
Charlie Hall
Charlie Hall
(7 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Mae Busch (73 films)

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Actress

The Bride Wore Boots, 1h25
Directed by Irving Pichel, Oscar Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Cummings, Diana Lynn, Robert Benchley, Natalie Wood, Peggy Wood
Roles Une femme
Rating60% 3.0006453.0006453.0006453.0006453.000645
Sally Warren runs a horse farm, but husband Jeff has a dislike and fear of horses. He is a Civil War historian and lecturer, which bores Sally but is very popular with local ladies who call themselves the Mason-Dixon Dames.
The Blue Dahlia, 1h35
Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Hugh Beaumont
Roles Jenny (Maid) (uncredited)
Rating70% 3.5458553.5458553.5458553.5458553.545855
Navy pilot Lieutenant Commander Johnny Morrison (Alan Ladd) is put on the inactive list. He returns home to Hollywood from the fighting in the south Pacific, bringing along his buddies and medically discharged crewmates Buzz Wanchek (William Bendix) and George Copeland (Hugh Beaumont). Buzz is prone to memory lapses and headaches, and is often short tempered, all likely due to his head wound.
Cross My Heart, 1h25
Directed by John Berry
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Betty Hutton, Lewis Russell, Sonny Tufts, Rhys Williams, Ruth Donnelly, Michael Chekhov
Roles Juror
Rating65% 3.2944353.2944353.2944353.2944353.294435
A secretary is wrongly accused of murdering her boss.
Masquerade in Mexico, 1h36
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Córdova, Patric Knowles, Ann Dvorak, George Rigaud, Natalie Schafer
Roles Une invitée de la fête
Rating58% 2.911192.911192.911192.911192.91119
Ill on the flight to Mexico City, honest banker Tom Grant doesn't know that Angel O'Reilly, seated nearby, has slipped a diamond into his pocket. She is traveling with the decidedly dishonest Boris Cassal, smuggling the gem for him, but slips away at the customs checkpoint while Tom is detained.
The Stork Club, 1h38
Directed by Hal Walker, Oscar Rudolph, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Betty Hutton, Mae Busch, Barry Fitzgerald, Don DeFore, Andy Russell, Robert Benchley
Roles Vera (uncredited)
Rating63% 3.1961853.1961853.1961853.1961853.196185
Judy Peabody saves an old man from drowning. He turns out to be Jerry Bates, "J.B." to his lawyer Curtis, "Pop" to Judy, who mistakenly believes the wealthy old-timer to be poor.
The Mad Monster, 1h17
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Musical films
Actors Johnny Downs, George Zucco, Anne Nagel, Reginald Barlow, Glenn Strange, Gordon De Main
Roles Susan
Rating35% 1.760091.760091.760091.760091.76009
The plot involves a scientist who has been discredited by his peers. He attempts to kill them off after he develops a secret formula that transforms his gardener into a murderous wolfman.
Ziegfeld Girl, 2h12
Directed by Busby Berkeley, Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, Tony Martin, Jackie Cooper
Roles Jenny
Rating66% 3.348433.348433.348433.348433.34843
The story deals with three showbiz hopefuls - Susan Gallagher (Judy Garland), Sandra Kolter (Hedy Lamarr) and Sheila Regan (Lana Turner) - and their efforts to attain the lofty status of "Ziegfeld Girl."
Women Without Names, 1h2
Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Judith Barrett, John Miljan, Fay Helm, John McGuire
Roles Rose
Rating65% 3.2788153.2788153.2788153.2788153.278815
La lune de miel de Joyce et Fred MacNeil est un arrêt brutal et peu satisfaisant lorsque Fred est accusé d'assassiner. Railroaded en prison grâce aux efforts d'aide politique ambitieux DA Marlin (John Miljan), Fred attend son sort malheureux sur Death Row, alors que Joyce travaille des heures supplémentaires à l'extérieur pour effacer le nom de son mari
Marie Antoinette, 2h29
Directed by Jacques Tourneur, W. S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Marie-Antoinette, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Histoire de France, French Revolution films, Films about royalty
Actors Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut
Roles Mme. La Motte (uncredited)
Rating72% 3.6439753.6439753.6439753.6439753.643975
In Vienna, 15-year-old Marie Antoinette (Norma Shearer) is informed by her mother, Empress Marie Therese of Austria (Alma Kruger), that Marie is to marry the future King of France, the Dauphin Louis XVI (Robert Morley). The young princess is excited to meet her future husband and live as a queen, but the Dauphin she married is actually a shy man, more at home with locksmithing than attending parties at the court at Versailles. After they are married, Marie tries desperately to please her husband, and after some trepidation, the Dauphin realizes he can trust Marie and tells her he cannot produce heirs. Without children to occupy her time and attention, Marie is bored and associates with the power-hungry Duc d'Orleans (Joseph Schildkraut), even though the Dauphin does not like him.
The Big Broadcast of 1938, 1h34
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors W. C. Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Shirley Ross, Lynne Overman, Ben Blue
Roles Chaperone (uncredited)
Rating60% 3.048933.048933.048933.048933.04893
In what is being billed as "The Race of the Ages," the new forty-million-dollar “radio powered” ocean liner S.S. Gigantic (“America’s Challenge for Crossing Record”) is about to race its rival, the slightly smaller S.S. Colossal across the Atlantic from New York’s Pier 97 to Cherbourg in two-and-a-half days. Gigantic owner T. Frothingill “T.F.” Bellows (W.C. Fields) intends to send his nearly identical younger brother S.B. (also Fields) to sail aboard the Colossal, hoping he will cause trouble and sabotage the rival ship, enabling the Gigantic and his own Bellows Line to win.
The Buccaneer, 2h4
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Grahame, Walter Brennan, Ian Keith
Rating65% 3.2952853.2952853.2952853.2952853.295285
Installé dans les bayous de La Nouvelle-Orléans, le pirate français Jean Laffite contrôle le commerce de toute la région tout en tentant de rester neutre dans le conflit qui oppose Américains et Britanniques. Les circonstances vont l'obliger à prendre parti et à s'engager au côté du général américain Andrew Jackson...
Nancy Drew… Detective, 1h6
Directed by William Clemens
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Bonita Granville, John Litel, James Stephenson, Frankie Thomas, Frank Orth, Renie Riano
Roles Miss Tyson, the Nurse
Rating65% 3.2952753.2952753.2952753.2952753.295275
Mary Eldridge promet de faire une donation à l'école de Nancy Drew, une jeune détective amateur, en souvenir de ses années dans cette même école avec la grand-mère de Nancy. Mais en rentrant chez elle, elle est kidnappée par un groupe d'hommes désirant lui prendre son argent.
Daughter of Shanghai, 1h2
Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Anna May Wong, Philip Ahn, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe, Cecil Cunningham, J. Carrol Naish
Roles Lil
Rating65% 3.2906653.2906653.2906653.2906653.290665
Lan Ying Lin and government agent Kim Lee battle alien smugglers.