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Mae Clarke (born Violet Mary Klotz) (August 16, 1910 – April 29, 1992) was a film actress.

Mae Clarke was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She started her career as a dancer and subsequently starred in many films for Universal Studios, including the original The Front Page
(1931), the original Frankenstein (1931) with Boris Karloff. Clarke played Dr. Frankenstein's fiancee, menaced by the Monster (Boris Karloff) on her wedding day. The Public Enemy, released that same year, contained one of filmdom's most famous (and occasionally parodied) scenes, in which the evil James Cagney pushed a grapefruit half into Mae's lovely face, then went out and picked up Jean Harlow. The film was so stunningly popular that it ran 24 hours a day at a theatre in Times Square upon its initial release, and Clarke's ex-husband had the grapefruit scene timed and would frequently buy a ticket, go in and watch that scene, and leave .

She may be best known for her leading role in the 1931 James Whale pre-Code production of Waterloo Bridge
(1931) as "Myra Deauville", an Englishwoman forced to become a prostitute during WWI who meets a man of a higher class and station who is unaware of her background and they fall in love. All ends tragically however. The movie also starred a very young Bette Davis in a small role and British actress Ethel Griffies as Myra's heartless landlady. The movie was sanitized in the Vivien Leigh (1940) remake.

She was married three times:
* 1) Lewis Brice 1928; divorced
* 2) Stevens Bancroft; divorced
* 3) Herbert Langdon; divorced. She had no children.

The beautiful Clarke died on April 29, 1992 at the age of 81 from cancer in Woodland Hills, California.

See also "Halliwell's Filmgoers Companion"

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