Mae Clarke | |
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 Clarke in 1932 | |
| Born | Violet Mary Klotz August 16, 1910 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | April 29, 1992 (aged 81) |
| Resting place | Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, singer |
| Years active | 1926–1970 |
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Mae Clarke (born Violet Mary Klotz; August 16, 1910 – April 29, 1992) was an American actress. She is widely remembered for playing Henry Frankenstein's bride Elizabeth, who is chased by Boris Karloff in Frankenstein, and for being on the receiving end of James Cagney's halved grapefruit in The Public Enemy.[3] Both films were released in 1931.
- ^ Kilgallen, Dorothy (September 11, 1947). "Voice of Broadway". Mansfield News Journal. p. 9. "Mae Clarke, the actress who rose to fame when Jimmy Cagney massaged her face with a grapefruit, has Reno in the bean-o. Her husband is Herbert Langdon." Retrieved July 21, 2022.
- ^ Clarke, Mae; Curtis, James, ed. (1996). Featured Player: An Oral Autobiography of Mae Clarke. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 222.
Clarke: "We divorced quickly because I added everything up and said, 'I've got to get out of this if I'm going to get on with responsibility for my own survival.' I couldn't carry him as a load, and he wasn't going to help me any. I had to go, and he didn't mind letting me go. By then, I guess I wasn't too pretty. And we hadn't even gotten to know each other. It was a fast marriage to begin with, an emotional thing at the time of the war."
Curtis: "You got back into films in the spring of 1948." ISBN 0-8108-3044-2. - ^ Folkart, Burt A.; Stassel, Stephanie (April 30, 1992). "Mae Clarke, Famed for Grapefruit Scene, Dies". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved January 2, 2018.