Mae Marsh - IMDb

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Known For

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages The Dear One

(1916)

The Birth of a Nation Flora Cameron - the Pet Sister

(1915)

Impact Mrs. King

(1949)

Hoodoo Ann Hoodoo Ann

(1916)

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Actress (204 credits)

1964 Cheyenne Autumn
Woman (uncredited)

1963 Donovan's Reef
Family Council Member (uncredited)

1961 Two Rode Together
Hanna Clegg (uncredited)

1960 Wagon Train (TV Series)
Mrs. Jesse Grant

- The Colter Craven Story (1960) ... Mrs. Jesse Grant (uncredited)

1960 From the Terrace
Sandy's Governess (uncredited)

1960 Sergeant Rutledge
Mrs. Nellie Hackett (uncredited)

1959 Bonanza (TV Series)
Mary

- The Phillip Diedesheimer Story (1959) ... Mary

1958 The Last Hurrah
Mourner at Wake (uncredited)

1958 Cry Terror!
Woman in Elevator (replaced by Marjorie Bennett) (scenes deleted)

1957 The Wings of Eagles
Nurse Crumley (uncredited)

1956 Julie
Hysterical Passenger

1956 Girls in Prison
'Grandma' Edwards

1956 The Searchers
Dark Cloaked Woman at Fort Guarding Deranged Woman (uncredited)

1956 While the City Sleeps
Mrs. Manners

1955 Hell on Frisco Bay
Mrs. Cobb - Steve's Landlady (uncredited)

1955 Good Morning, Miss Dove
Woman in Bank (uncredited)

1955 The Girl Rush
Casino Patron (uncredited)

1955 The Tall Men
Emigrant (uncredited)

1955 Prince of Players
Witch in 'Macbeth' (uncredited)

1954 A Star Is Born
Malibu Party Guest (uncredited)

1953 The Robe
Jerusalem Woman Aiding Demetrius (uncredited)

1953 A Blueprint for Murder
Anna Swenson - Lynne's Housekeeper (uncredited)

1953 Powder River
Townswoman (uncredited)

1953 Titanic
Woman to Whom Norman Gave His Seat (uncredited)

1953 The Sun Shines Bright
G.A.R. Woman at the Ball

1952 Night Without Sleep
Maid (uncredited)

1952 The Quiet Man
Father Paul's Mother (uncredited)

1951 The Model and the Marriage Broker
Talkative Patient (uncredited)

1950 The Jackpot
Mrs. Woodruff in Photo (uncredited)

1950 My Blue Heaven
Maid (uncredited)

1950 The Gunfighter
Mrs. O'Brien (uncredited)

1950 When Willie Comes Marching Home
Mrs. Clara Fettles (uncredited)

1949 Everybody Does It
Higgins - the Borlands' Maid (uncredited)

1949 The Fighting Kentuckian
Sister Hattie

1949 It Happens Every Spring
Greenleaf's Maid (uncredited)

1949 Impact
Mrs. King (as Mrs. Peters)

1949 A Letter to Three Wives
Miss Jenkins (uncredited)

1948 3 Godfathers
Mrs. Perley Sweet

1948 The Snake Pit
Tommy's Mother (uncredited)

1948 The Walls of Jericho
Mourner Offering Condolences (uncredited)

1948 Deep Waters
Molly Thatcher

1948 Green Grass of Wyoming
Race Spectator (uncredited)

1948 Fort Apache
Mrs. Gates

1947 Daisy Kenyon
Woman Leaving Apartment (uncredited)

1947 Mother Wore Tights
Resort Guest (uncredited)

1947 Thunder in the Valley
Flower Vendor (uncredited)

1947 Miracle on 34th Street
Woman in Santa Line (uncredited)

1947 The Late George Apley
Dressmaker (uncredited)

1946 My Darling Clementine
Simpson's Sister (uncredited)

1946 Smoky
Woman Watching Parade (uncredited)

1946 Johnny Comes Flying Home
Bus Passenger (uncredited)

1945 Leave Her to Heaven
Fisherwoman (uncredited)

1945 The Dolly Sisters
Annie (uncredited)

1945 State Fair
Ring-Toss Spectator (uncredited)

1945 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Tynmore Sister (uncredited)

1944 In the Meantime, Darling
Emma (uncredited)

1944 Sweet and Low-Down
Apartment House Tenant (uncredited)

1944 Buffalo Bill
Arcade Customer (uncredited)

1944 The Sullivans
Neighbor of Mrs. Griffin (uncredited)

1943 Jane Eyre
Leah (uncredited)

1943 The Song of Bernadette
Madame Blanche - Townswoman (uncredited)

1943 Jitterbugs
Susan's Mother in Photo (uncredited)

1943 Tonight We Raid Calais
French Townswoman (uncredited)

1943 The Moon Is Down
Villager (uncredited)

1943 Dixie Dugan
Mrs. Sloan

1943 The Meanest Man in the World
Old Lady (uncredited)

1942 Quiet Please: Murder
Miss Hartwig (uncredited)

1942 It's Everybody's War (Short)
Mrs. Stone (uncredited)

1942 The Man in the Trunk
Mrs. Inge (uncredited)

1942 Just Off Broadway
Autograph Seeker (uncredited)

1942 The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Mrs. Phillips (uncredited)

1942 Tales of Manhattan
Molly (Robinson sequence)

1942 It Happened in Flatbush
Aunt Mae, Team Co-Owner (uncredited)

1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Mrs. Purdy (uncredited)

1942 Blue, White and Perfect
Mrs. Bertha Toby

1941 Remember the Day
Teacher (uncredited)

1941 How Green Was My Valley
Miner's Wife (uncredited)

1941 Swamp Water
Mrs. McCord (uncredited)

1941 Great Guns
Aunt Martha

1941 Belle Starr
Preacher's Wife (uncredited)

1941 For Beauty's Sake
Night Manager (uncredited)

1941 The Cowboy and the Blonde
Office Worker (uncredited)

1941 Tobacco Road
County Clerk's Assistant (uncredited)

1940 Young People
Maria Liggett

1940 Four Sons
Townswoman (uncredited)

1940 The Grapes of Wrath
Muley's Wife (uncredited)

1940 The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Mrs. Stetson

1939 Swanee River
Mrs. Jonathan Fry (uncredited)

1939 Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Empire State Building Tourist (uncredited)

1939 Drums Along the Mohawk
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)

1936 Hollywood Boulevard
Carlotta Blakeford

1935 Black Fury
Mrs. Mary Novak

1934 Bachelor of Arts
Mrs. Mary Barth

1934 Little Man, What Now?
Wife of Karl Goebbler

1933 Alice in Wonderland
Sheep

1932 That's My Boy
Mom Scott

1932 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Aunt Jane

1931 Over the Hill
Ma Shelby

1928 Racing Through

1925 The Rat
Odile Etrange

1925 Tides of Passion
Charity

1924 Arabella
Arabella

1924 Daddies
Ruth Atkins

1923 The White Rose
Bessie 'Teazie' Williams

1923 Paddy the Next Best Thing
Paddy Adair

1922 Flames of Passion
Dorothy Hawke

1922 Till We Meet Again
Marion Bates

1921 Nobody's Kid
Mary Cary

1920 The Little 'Fraid Lady
Cecilia Carne

1919 Spotlight Sadie
Sadie Sullivan

1919 The Bondage of Barbara
Barbara Grey

1918 The Racing Strain
Lucille Cameron

1918 Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand (Short)

1918 Hidden Fires
Peggy Murray / Louise Parke

1918 Money Mad
Elsie Dean

1918 The Glorious Adventure
Carey Wethersbee

1918 All Woman
Susan Sweeney

1918 The Face in the Dark
Jane Ridgeway

1918 The Beloved Traitor
Mary Garland

1918 Fields of Honor
Marie Messereau

1917 The Cinderella Man
Marjorie Caner

1917 Sunshine Alley
Nell

1917 Polly of the Circus
Polly

1916 The Wharf Rat
Carmen Wagner

1916 The Little Liar
Maggie

1916 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Dear One

1916 The Marriage of Molly-O
Molly-O

1916 A Wild Girl of the Sierras
The Wild Girl

1916 A Child of the Streets

1916 A Child of the Paris Streets
Julie / the Child-Wife

1916 Hoodoo Ann
Hoodoo Ann

1915 Her Shattered Idol
Mae Carter

1915 The Victim (Short)
Mary Hastings, Frank's Wife

1915 The Outlaw's Revenge
The American lover

1915 The Outcast
The Girl of the Slums

1915 The Birth of a Nation
Flora Cameron - the Pet Sister

1915 His Lesson (Short)
Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)

1914 Paid with Interest (Short)
Mame

1914 The Genius (Short)
Nell Graham

1914 The Great God Fear (Short)
Meta Gates

1914 Meg of the Mines (Short)
Meg

1914 Moonshine Molly (Short)
Molly Boone

1914 The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill'
The Maid

1914 The Birthday Present (Short)
Dorothy Ellis - the Wife

1914 The Escape
Jennie Joyce

1914 The Swindlers (Short)
Alice Rodney

1914 The Girl in the Shack (Short)
Jenny - the Wild Frontier Girl

1914 Home, Sweet Home
Apple Pie Mary Smith

1914 The Life of General Villa
American lover

1914 The Broken Bottle (Short)
May Ford

1914 The Great Leap: Until Death Do Us Part
Mary Gibbs

1914 The Primitive Man (Short)
Priscilla Mayhew (Prologue) / Lily White (The Old Days)

1914 Apple Pie Mary (Short)
Aple Pie Mary

1914 Judith of Bethulia
Naomi

1913 The Battle of Elderbush Gulch (Short)
Sally Cameron - the First Waif

1913 By Man's Law (Short)
Ann Calvert - Sister Owner

1913 The Girl Across the Way (Short)
Grace - the Girl

1913 Influence of the Unknown (Short)
The Young Woman

1913 For the Son of the House (Short)
The Young Woman

1913 The Reformers; or, The Lost Art of Minding One's Business (Short)
The Daughter

1913 The Sorrowful Shore (Short)
On Shore (uncredited)

1913 Her Mother's Oath (Short)
In Church (uncredited)

1913 A Timely Interception (Short)
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

1913 His Mother's Son (Short)
The Daughter

1913/II The Wanderer (Short)
The Other Parents' Daughter, as an Adult

1913 The Little Tease (Short)
The Little Tease - as an Adult

1913 The Perfidy of Mary (Short)
Mary

1913 Fate (Short)
THe Mother - Loving Family

1913 Near to Earth (Short)
One of Marie's Friends

1913 A Girl's Stratagem (Short)
The Young Woman

1913 Broken Ways (Short)
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

1913 Love in an Apartment Hotel (Short)
Angelina Millingford - a Maid

1913 The Tender Hearted Boy (Short)
The Tender-Hearted Boy's Sweetheart

1913 An Adventure in the Autumn Woods (Short)
The Girl

1913 The Telephone Girl and the Lady (Short)
The Telephone Girl

1913 Three Friends (Short)
The Wife's Friend

1912 The Indian Uprising at Santa Fe (Short)
Juan

1912 The New York Hat (Short)
Second Gossip

1912 Brutality (Short)
The Young Woman

1912 The Civilian (Short)
Ethel Brown

1912 For the Honor of the Seventh (Short)
The Girl in Town

1912 Two Daughters of Eve (Short)

1912 The Parasite (Short)
Rose Fletcher

1912 Kentucky Girl (Short)
Belle Hopkins - Bob's Sister

1912 The Sands of Dee (Short)
Mary

1912 Man's Genesis (Short)
Lillywhite

1912 An Indian Summer (Short)
The Widow's Second Daughter

1912 The School Teacher and the Waif (Short)
Schoolgirl

1912 The Spirit Awakened (Short)
The Renegade Farmhand's Sweetheart

1912 Lena and the Geese (Short)
The 'Adopted' Daughter

1912 A Temporary Truce (Short)
A Murdered Settler (uncredited)

1912 Home Folks (Short)
At Barn Dance

1912 A Beast at Bay (Short)
The Young Woman's Friend

1912 When Kings Were the Law (Short)
At Court (uncredited)

1912 His Lesson (Short)
A Visitor

1912 A Lodging for the Night (Short)
First Mexican Couple - the Woman

1912 The Lesser Evil (Short)
The Young Woman's Companion

1912 Just Like a Woman (Short)
In Club

1912 Those Hicksville Boys (Short)
At Party

1912 A Voice from the Deep (Short)
On Beach (uncredited)

1912 A Siren of Impulse (Short)
Reveler

1911 Fighting Blood (Short)

1910 Serious Sixteen (Short)

1910 Ramona (Short)

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Self (2 credits)

1927 Life in Hollywood No. 4 (Documentary short)
Herself

1918 United States Fourth Liberty Loan Drive (Short)
Herself

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Archive footage (13 credits)

2011 These Amazing Shadows (Documentary)
Flora Cameron (clip from The Birth of a Nation (1915)) (uncredited)

1998 The Making of 'The Birth of a Nation' (Video documentary short)
Herself / Flora Cameron

1995 Century of Cinema (TV Series documentary)
The Dear One, 'Intolerance'

- A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995) ... The Dear One, 'Intolerance' (uncredited)

1988-1993 American Masters (TV Series documentary)

- D.W. Griffith: Father of Film (1993)

- Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me (1988)

1975 Black Shadows on the Silver Screen (TV Movie documentary)
Herself (uncredited)

1975 The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War (Documentary)
Herself

1968 Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed (TV Movie documentary)
Herself / Flora Cameron (uncredited)

1965 The Love Goddesses (Documentary)
Herself

1961 Hollywood: The Golden Years (TV Movie documentary)
Actress 'Birth of a Nation' (uncredited)

1947 Flicker Flashbacks No. 2, Series 5 (Documentary short)
Herself (uncredited)

1933 March of the Movies
Herself, film clip (uncredited)

1932 The Movie Album (Documentary short)
Herself

1919 The Mother and the Law
The Little Dear One

Personal Details

Publicity Listings:

1 Print Biography | 28 Articles | 1 Magazine Cover Photo | See more »

Alternate Names:

Mrs. Peters

Height:

5' 3" (1.6 m)

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Trivia:

In the Spring of 1918, the 18-year-old Ernest Hemingway claimed in letters to friends and family that he was engaged to Marsh. Hemingway was in New York at the time, preparing to go to Italy as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross, and he said he met Marsh at a party. Hemingway soon said that Marsh had broken the engagement. When asked about this incident 48 years later, in 1966, Marsh said ... See more »