Mae Dahlberg

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Mae Charlotte Dahlberg (May) (born May 24, 1888 in Brunswick , Victoria , † 1969 or 1970 in New York ) was an Australian variety dancer and actress .

Life

The daughter of Louis Dahlberg (* around 1859 in Sweden) and Mary Jane, b. Gundry (* around 1866 in Adelaide), who married in June 1885, learned to dance at a young age. Her older sisters were Annie and Edith.

From 1906 she was in the Tasmanian capital Hobart with the baritone Rupert William Cuthbert (* 1884). In August they performed at the Temperance Hall there and in December at the Hippodrome in Adelaide. After Rupert Clifton Saxe Cuthbert was born in Brunswick in April 1907, they lived in Rupert's home Albert Park from 1909 . Between 1906 and 1912 the couple performed in various music halls in Eastern Australia: Broken Hill (1909), Hobart (1910), Brisbane and Sydney (1912). In February 1913 they had to sue for their fee from JM Woolf from Sandringham. The three then moved to the United States and arrived on May 28, 1913 at the RMS Niagara in Seattle .

Mae appeared from 1916 with her colleague Cissy Hayden as The Hayden Sisters . Around October 1917 she met the young comedian Arthur Stanley (Stan) Jefferson, who appeared as a trio with the couple Alice and Baldwin Cooke , whereupon a romance between Mae and Jefferson developed. Jefferson looked for a shorter stage name. As Mae later (1920-2005) said John McCabe, a colleague had left in the cloakroom a history book in which Scipio Africanus Major (Engl. With a laurel wreath Laurel ) was depicted what they called Stan Laurel inspired. Under the name Mae Laurel , she starred in 13 films alongside Stan. The dominant and characteristically difficult artist insisted on taking part in all of her partner's films, although she did not reach the audience. Instead, she received severance pay from Joe Rock in 1925 on condition that she move back to Australia.

She may have married actor Jack Wall in 1929. In 1936 she traveled back to the United States, where the newspapers reported around November 19 that she would sue Laurel for a monthly alimony of $ 750 or $ 1,000. She stated that they got married on June 18, 1919. The lawsuit was dismissed in January. In 1942 she lived in Corio , Victoria .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1917: Nuts in May
  • 1918: Huns and Hyphens
  • 1918: Bears and Bad Men
  • 1918: Mud and Sand
  • 1922: The Pest
  • 1923: When Knights were Cold
  • 1923: Under Two Jags
  • 1923: Frozen Hearts
  • 1923: The Soilers
  • 1923: Mother's Joy
  • 1924: Near Dublin
  • 1924: Rupert of Hee Haw
  • 1924: Wide Open Spaces

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.webcitation.org ( Memento from January 5, 2013 on WebCite )
  2. ↑ http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn4601795
  3. ↑ http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19110314.2.73.2
  4. ↑ http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/10273360
  5. ^ LIFE , Nov. 23, 1936, p. 80
personal data
SURNAME Dahlberg, Mae
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dahlberg, Mae Charlotte (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian variety dancer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Brunswick , Victoria
DATE OF DEATH 1969 or 1970
Place of death New York City , New York, United States