Mae Busch (June 18, 1891 – April 19, 1946) was an Australian film actress, born in Melbourne, Australia, who worked in both silent and sound films in early Hollywood. Mae was a member of a musical family. She first appeared on stage and then in vaudeville.
She worked at Keystone Studios and, most memorably, with Laurel and Hardy at the Hal Roach Studios. At Keystone, her dalliance with studio chief Mack Sennett famously ended his engagement to actress Mabel Normand when Normand allegedly walked in on the pair. According to some accounts of the incident, Mae inflicted a serious head injury on Normand by striking her with a vase (she was known for pinpoint throwing accuracy!)
At the pinnacle of her film career Mae was known as the versatile vamp. After being absent from films for some years Miss Busch returned to make Masquerade in Mexico and Stork Club, both in 1945. She had roles in approximately one hundred and thirty motion pictures beginning with The Agitator and The Water Nymph, both released in 1912.
Mae Busch died in 1946, age 54, at a San Fernando Valley sanitarium where she had been ill for five months. She was the wife of Thomas C. Tate, a civil engineer. Their residence was 1219 North Beechwood Drive, Los Angeles, California. Funeral arrangements were carried out by Pierce Brothers Hollywood Mortuary.
Filmography
The Agitator (1912)
The Water Nymph (1912)
Colored Villainy (1915)
Fatty and Mabel's Married Life (1915)
Ambrose's Sour Grapes (1915)
Wilful Ambrose (1915)
Love in Armor (1915)
A One Night Stand (1915)
Settled at the Seaside (1915)
The Rent Jumpers (1915)
Those College Girls (1915)
Merely a Married Man (1915)
Those Bitter Sweets (1915)
A Rascal of Wolfish ways (1915)
A Favorite Fool (1915)
The Best of Enemies (1915)
The Worst of Friends (1916)
Because He Loved Her (1916)
Better Late Than Never (1916)
Wife and Auto Trouble (1916)
A Bath House Blunder (1916)
The Fair Barbarian (1917)
The Grim Game (1919)
The Devil's Passkey (1920)
Her Husband's Friends (1920)
The Love Charm (1921)
A Parisian Scandal (1921)
Her Own Money (1922)
Brothers Under the Skin (1922)
Only a Shop Girl (1922)
Pardon My Nerve (1922)
Foolish Wives (1923)
The Christian (1923)
Souls for Sale (1923)
Name the Man (1924)
Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model (1924)
Bread (1924)
Broken Barriers (1924)
The Triflers (1924)
Married Flirts (1924)
The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1924)
A Woman Who Sinned (1924)
Camille of the Barbary Coast (1925)
Frivolous Sal (1925)
Time, The Comedian (1925)
The Unholy Three (1925)
Fools of Fashion (1926)
The Miracle of Life (1926)
The Nut-Cracker (1926)
The Truthful Sex (1926)
Love 'em and Weep (1927) LAUREL & HARDY
Husband Hunters (1927)
Perch of The Devil (1927)
Tongues of Scandal (1927)
San Francisco Nights (1927)
Black Butterflies (1928)
Fazil (1928)
The Beauty Shoppers (1928)
While the City Sleeps (1928)
Sisters of Eve (1928)
Alibi (1929)
Unaccustomed As We Are (1929) LAUREL & HARDY
A Man's Man (1929)
Young Desire (1930)
High Hats and Low Brows (1931)
Defenders of the Law (1931)
Chickens Come Home (1931) LAUREL & HARDY
Fly My Kite (1931) OUR GANG
Come Clean (1931) LAUREL & HARDY
Wicked (1931)
Kiss Me Again (1931)
Their First Mistake (1932) LAUREL & HARDY
Doctor X (1932)
Rider of Death Valley (1932)
Racing Strain (1932)
The Heart Punch (1932)
Scarlet Dawn (1932)
Without Honor (1932)
The Man Called Black (1932)
Cheating Blondes (1933)
Sons of the Desert (1933) LAUREL & HARDY
Blondie Johnson (1933)
Dance, Girl, Dance (1933)
Picture Brides (1933)
Lilly Turner (1933)
Secrets of Hollywood (1933)
Sucker Money (1933)
Women Won't Tell (1933)
Blondie Won't Tell (1933)
Oliver the Eighth (1934) LAUREL & HARDY
Going Bye-Bye! (1934) LAUREL & HARDY
Them Thar Hills (1934) LAUREL & HARDY
The Live Ghost (1934) LAUREL & HARDY
The Road to Ruin (1934)
I Like it That Way (1934)
Beloved (1934)
Affairs of Susan (1935)
Tit for Tat (1935) LAUREL & HARDY
The Fixer Uppers (1935) LAUREL & HARDY
Stranded (1935)
The Bohemian Girl (1936) LAUREL & HARDY
The Clutching Hand (1936)
Daughter of Shanghai (1938)
The Buccaneer (1938)
Nancy Drew - Detective (1938)
Prison Farm (1938)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
Now it Can Be Sold (1939)
Women Without Names (1940)
Fangs of the Wild (1940)
French Fried Patootie (1941)
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Hello Annapolis (1942)
The Mad Monster (1942)
Masquerade in Mexico (1943)
Stork Club (1945)
Ladies' Man (1945)
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
The Bride Wore Boots (1946)
Cross My Heart (1946)
References
The Los Angeles Times, Death Claims Mae Busch, 54, Page A1.
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External links
Mae Busch at the Internet Movie Database
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NAME
Busch, Mae
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
Actor
DATE OF BIRTH
1891-6-18
PLACE OF BIRTH
Melbourne, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
1946-4-19
PLACE OF DEATH
San Fernando Valley, California, USA
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Categories: 1891 births | 1946 deaths | Australian stage actors | Australian film actors | Australian silent film actors | Hal Roach Studios actors | Hollywood Walk of Fame | People from Melbourne | People from the San Fernando Valley | Vaudeville performers
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