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- Birth nameMae Charlotte Dahlberg
- Mae Laurel was born on May 24, 1888 in Australia. She was an actress, known for Wide Open Spaces (1924), Bears and Bad Men (1918) and Frozen Hearts (1923). She was married to Rupert Cuthbert. She died in 1969 in New York, USA.
- SpouseRupert Cuthbert(1906 - ?) (1 child)
- Common-law wife of comedian Stan Laurel. It was she who suggested that Stan Jefferson should change his last name to Laurel.
- She was legally married to someone in her native Australia when she met Stan Laurel in 1918. She and Stan lived as a common-law couple. They parted in 1925 by mutual consent, and Mae returned to Australia.
- Charlotte Mae Dahlberg (Dahlberg was her maiden name) was part of a double act with Stan and claimed that she gave Stan his surname. She was supposedly looking through a book and saw a picture of a Roman general with a laurel wreath on his head. As Stan was superstitious and his name had 13 letters in it he was more than happy to take up her suggestion of adopting the name of Laurel.
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