Mae Busch
Date of birth: 1891-06-17
Place of birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Annie May Busch, Mae Bush
Biography
Mae Busch, born Annie May Busch, was an Australian stage and screen actress. Her first film appearances were in The Agitator and The Water Nymph, both released in 1912. At the pinnacle of her film career, Busch was known as the versatile vamp.
Movie Credits
Blondie Johnson
1933-02-25
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to c
The Unholy Three
1925-07-20
Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, a
Alibi
1929-04-20
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When
Foolish Wives
1922-01-11
A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat
Sons of the Desert
1933-12-29
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when t
Pardon My Nerve!
1922-03-05
A drifter falls for the daughter of a rancher, an alcoholic old coot whose ranch is on some very val
The Racing Strain
1932-12-16
A race-car driver whose career is on the skids because of his drinking falls for a rich society girl
Only a Shop Girl
1922-12-15
Dann Mulvey (William Scott), just released from prison, is falsely accused of murder. The real culpr
Nancy Drew… Detective
1938-11-19
After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, N
Oliver the Eighth
1934-01-13
Barbershop owners Stan and Ollie answer an ad in the newspaper from a wealthy widow looking for a hu
Going Bye-Bye!
1934-06-23
In a packed courtroom, Butch Long vows revenge on 'squealers' Laurel and Hardy whose evidence has he
Broken Barriers
1924-08-18
A young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets and fa
A Man's Man
1929-05-25
An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood to make movies and marries a soda jerk.
A Favorite Fool
1915-11-14
Arling, ringmaster of a small wagon circus, abuses Polly and her seven children. Foy, a farmhand, sy
The Love Charm
1921-11-01
Orphaned Ruth Sheldon reads an article on "Love Charms" on her way to live in the home of her Aunt J
Her Own Money
1922-01-01
After five years of marriage, Mildred comes to the realization that her husband, Lew, is going nowhe
Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
1992-04-05
Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of cont
Come Clean
1931-09-02
The Hardys wish to have a quiet evening in their apartment, but are interrupted when the Laurels pay
The Fixer Uppers
1935-02-09
Stan and Ollie are greeting card salesmen who agree to help a woman put a spark in her loveless marr
The Live Ghost
1934-12-08
Fish market workers Stan and Ollie are persuaded by a sea captain to shanghai a crew for him at the
Their First Mistake
1932-11-05
Mrs Hardy is annoyed that her husband Oliver seems to spend more time with his friend Stanley than w
Them Thar Hills
1934-07-21
Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into w
Tit for Tat
1935-01-05
Stan and Ollie have set up their own electrical appliance store but, unfortunately for them, the gro
Unaccustomed as We Are
1929-05-04
Laurel and Hardy try to entertain a female neighbor, unbeknown to Hardy’s wife.
Love 'Em and Weep
1927-06-12
Titus Tillsbury is a successful businessman who is visited by a blackmailing old flame. He enlists a
The Bohemian Girl
1936-02-14
Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
Fly My Kite
1931-05-30
A greedy man tries to get rid of his mother by putting her in an old folks home until he discovers s
The Stork Club
1945-12-28
After aspiring singer Judy Peabody rescues the elderly J.B. Bates from drowning, she assumes that th
Lilly Turner
1933-05-13
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a car
Without Honor
1932-01-02
Pete Marlan is a gambler with an unsavory past. Suspected of being an outlaw, Pete plays along with
Perch of the Devil
1927-03-06
Ida is married to small-time Montana prospector Gregory Compton. She's bored and lonely, so a friend
Fools of Fashion
1926-10-01
Mary Young is a young wife who wants beautiful clothes. Her friend Enid invites her to shop at Madam
The Fair Barbarian
1917-12-17
An Englishman who has made his fortune in America decides to return to England.
Fazil
1928-06-04
An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and
The Mad Monster
1942-05-15
A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly
The Beauty Shoppers
1927-12-12
Peggy Raymond, a country girl, comes to New York with plans for a career in art and is taken by mist
Camille of the Barbary Coast
1925-11-01
For the sake of a woman, Robert Morton serves a prison sentence and is disowned by his father, Henry
Sucker Money
1933-02-28
A phony spiritualist hypnotizes the daughter of a wealthy banker in a scheme to swindle the banker o
Fatty and the Broadway Stars
1915-12-15
Fatty and the Broadway Stars is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arb
Merely A Married Man
1915-06-11
A Keystone slapstick comedy Harry McCoy & Mae Busch.
Those Bitter Sweets
1915-06-07
Harry takes girlfriend Mae out for a ride in his Chevy but has to contend with romantic rival Dell,
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
1936-04-17
15-Chapter Serial about a scientist that discovers a formula for making synthetic gold and the peop
High Hats and Low Brows
1932-07-10
Sixth entry in the Rufftown 2-reel comedy series based on stories by Arthur 'Bugs' Baer.
Dance, Girl, Dance
1933-09-01
Vaudevillian Joe Pitt sweeps young Sally Patter off of her feet and steals the lovestruck girl away
Women Without Names
1940-03-14
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of
Women Won't Tell
1932-11-16
A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a
Name the Man
1924-01-27
Victor Stowell, son of the deemster of the Isle of Man, is engaged to Fenella Stanley. He becomes in
Defenders of the Law
1931-05-23
A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and th
The Rider of Death Valley
1932-04-23
Rigby, Larribee, and Grant each have one third of Bill Joyce's map locating his gold mine. The three
The Christian
1923-01-14
Glory Quayle and John Storm, sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London, Glory to
Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
1924-04-16
Nellie Horton, when mistreated by her father, is taken in charge by Thomas Lipton. She grows up in p
Chickens Come Home
1931-02-21
Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.
Bread
1924-08-04
To relieve the burden placed on their mother, Alice Sturgis (Wanda Hawley) marries and has several c
Ziegfeld Girl
1941-04-25
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautif
The Purchase Price
1932-07-23
Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a
Souls for Sale
1923-04-22
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
1915-02-10
When a woman's husband leaves town, she begins to see odd things happening in her house. Afraid that
While the City Sleeps
1928-02-15
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi
A One Night Stand
1915-03-22
Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production.
San Francisco Nights
1928-05-01
Young lawyer John Vickery is in love with his wife, but he thinks she is in love with another man...
The Blue Dahlia
1946-04-16
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attem
Cross My Heart
1946-12-18
A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and
Doctor X
1932-08-03
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
1924-03-31
Although the dance troupe of which she is leading lady is successful in South America, Lou urges her
The Heart Punch
1932-10-17
During a boxing match a fighter accidentally kills his opponent in the ring. Afterwards he finds him
For Better - But Worse
1915-05-21
Harry MacCoy's get-up looks a lot like Chaplin's, with his bowler, black cutaway coat and baggy pant
Cheating Blondes
1933-05-01
A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.
Fangs of the Wild
1939-01-01
Foxes are mysteriously disappearing from fox farms and Agent Don has been sent to investigate. Brad
The Man Called Back
1932-07-16
Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey da
Love in Armor
1915-03-11
Mae Busch and Charley Chase are in love. However, her father does not approve. A Baron sees Mae and
The Grim Game
1919-10-11
Jailed unjustly for a murder he did not commit, a young man uses his amazing powers of escape to fre
Settled at the Seaside
1915-03-28
Two couples are at the seaside. A young man proposes to his gal. She accepts, and promptly tells him
The Rent Jumpers
1915-04-07
The plot is driven by the confusion that results when two pairs of trousers are mixed up. One pair i
Ye Olden Grafter
1915-02-18
Largely a typical Keystone flirting-in-the-park one-reeler, this one is differentiated slightly by d
Scarlet Dawn
1932-11-12
During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Con
Young Desire
1930-06-08
A carnival sideshow dancer falls in love with a handsome young man.
Prison Farm
1938-06-17
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy f
The Big Broadcast of 1938
1938-02-11
The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical a
Hello, Annapolis
1942-04-23
Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a g
Picture Brides
1934-04-23
Four "Picture Brides", from New Orleans, arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought ther
Wife and Auto Trouble
1916-03-05
A mild-mannered man's problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law lead to complications wit
French Fried Patootie
1941-06-27
Alan tries to keep his wife from meeting an old flame of his.
Because He Loved Her
1916-01-16
Sam Bernard in the kitchen cooking up something for his loved one.
Wicked
1931-10-04
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband
The Accusing Finger
1936-11-17
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly c
1925 Studio Tour
1925-04-09
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and giv
The Devil's Passkey
1920-08-08
The wife of an American playwright in Paris becomes ensnared in the seductive wiles of an American A
The Triflers
1924-12-15
Marjorie Stockton is a fickle flapper who has loads of suitors. She won't give any of them the time
Married Flirts
1924-10-27
Nelly is so intent on her writing career, that she neglects her appearance and her husband, Wayne. J
Husband Hunters
1927-01-15
Marie Devere and Helen Gray are two sophisticated, gold-digging chorus girls on the look-out to marr
Daughter of Shanghai
1937-12-17
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.
Marie Antoinette
1938-08-26
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France,
The Truthful Sex
1926-11-20
Sally Mapes and her husband, Robert, have a glorious romance after they are married but it hits trou
Dance of the Cookoos
1982-01-01
Dance of the Cookoos is merged a cinematic cross section with the high points from almost 100 works
Beloved
1934-01-22
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
I Like it That Way
1934-04-01
A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
The Stork Club
1945-12-28
After aspiring singer Judy Peabody rescues the elderly J.B. Bates from drowning, she assumes that th
The Road to Ruin
1934-05-14
A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an a
Her Husband's Friend
1920-11-14
Princeton Hadley feels obligated to pay alimony to Judith, the widow of his deceased friend Billy We
Something to Shout About
1943-02-25
A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway
The Nutcracker
1926-03-28
A man flees his frustrating home and work life and is injured by a streetcar.
Extra! Extra!
1932-04-04
Frank McHugh appears with Mae Busch, Jerry Mandy and others in this prohibition-time RKO Pathe short
Laurel & Hardy: Year One
2023-09-01
Laurel & Hardy: Year One, The Newly Restored 1927 Silents, as proudly presented by Flicker Alley and