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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Mae Marsh (1895 - 1968) Actress Born As: Mary Wayne Marsh Born: November 9, 1895, Madrid, N.M. Died: 1968 Educated in a Hollywood convent, in 1910 she was playing hooky from school to see her older sister, Marguerite, perform in a West Coast Biograph production, when she was noticed by the film's director, David Wark Griffith. During an excursion to California the following winter Griffith invited Marsh to appear in his films. In 1912 she went to New York and after a couple of appearances in Kalem films joined Griffith's stock company of players at Biograph. Like Lillian Gish, she made an ideal Griffith heroine, at once youthful and mature, physically frail but spiritually strong. She rapidly became one of the director's favorite actresses, a frequent co-star of Bobby Harron. As The Little Sister she provided some of the most tender and moving moments of EL NACIMIENTO DE UNA NACION (1915), memorably in the homecoming scene with Henry B. Walthall and in the suicide scene, when she leaps to her death to escape rape. Miss Marsh surpassed her achievement the following year, with a superior dramatic performance as Robert Harron's grief-stricken wife in the modern episode of INTOLERANCIA (1916). In 1916 she left Griffith to sign a lucrative contract with Goldwyn. But her roles for this and other studios in the US and Europe rarely did justice to her talent. It wasn't until she returned to a Griffith film, THE WHITE ROSE (1923), that she had the opportunity to give another memorably intense dramatic performance. Except for an occasional role, she retired from the screen in 1925 but returned in the early 30s as a character actress and appeared in numerous talkies through the early 60s.
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