Mae Marsh

Mae Marsh (born Mary Wayne Marsh, November 9, 1894 – February 13, 1968), American film actress with a career spanning over 50 years, original, vintage photograph card.

Working with Mack Sennett and D.W. Griffith, she was a prolific actress, sometimes appearing in eight movies a year and often paired with fellow Sennett protégé Robert Harron in romantic roles. In The Birth of a Nation (1915) she played the innocent sister who waits for her brothers to come home from war and who, in one of the film's most racially charged scenes, leaps to her death rather than submit to the lustful advances of Gus, the so-called "renegade Negro" who is later killed by the Ku Klux Klan. In Intolerance (1916) she plays the wife who has her baby taken away after her husband is unjustly convicted of murder.

This original, vintage photograph promotional card, measuring 3.5 x 5.5 inches, is printed on a medium weight, off white, matte stock is in fine condition showing light signs of age and toning. Verso is blank.