Reason she became famous
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Mae Marsh
mkmkmkmkmkmkmk — 17 years ago(August 08, 2008 12:32 PM)
It's actually a funny story. Mary Pickford was the star of Biograph and Mae Marsh allready played bit parts there. Pickford always fought with the star director of the studio, D.W. Griffith. She allready left the studio in 1911 because of him, but was re-hired a year later. Now, in 1912 Griffith was fed up with her because she started to feel superior (and even openly looked down on stage queen Billie Burke! How must she hated Pickford!). Griffith decided to put her ego down on the ground by firing her from the cast of "The Sands of Dee" and replacing her by the unknown and unexperienced Mae Marsh. "How could Griffith?! Replacing ME, the great Mary Pickford, by this nobody!"
Anyways, after seeing her performance, Pickford admitted she thought Marsh gave an excellent performance and doubted herself, because this inexperienced little girl gave a just as good of a performance as she did (Pickford started acting as a little child, beginning in 1900. She allready worked for the great David Belasco, the most prestigious and highest Broadway director) Griffith keeped on annoying her, by letting her and best friend Lillian Gish (almost literally) fight for a role in "Lena and the Geese".
I thought it was pretty funny. If you think about it, Marsh "only" became famous because of the Pickford-Griffith feud. What if they never fought? Would Marsh still had been as famous?
(My source was Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood) -
shadycady — 15 years ago(September 17, 2010 08:29 AM)
I was researching Mae Marsh's family, and it looks like her sister, Marguerite, was married and had a child from the 1910 Census. She stated that Loveridge was her middle name, but she had a husband and a daughter Leslie. Leslie Loveridge appeared with Mae Marsh in a movie in 1917.
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1910 United States Federal Census
about Margaret Loveridge
Name: Margaret Loveridge
[Margaret Hall]
Age in 1910: 20
Estimated birth year: abt 1890
Birthplace: Kansas
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Father's Name: William Hall
Father's Birth Place: Missouri
Mother's Name: May Hall
Mother's Birth Place: Illinois
Spouse's name: Donald Loveridge
Home in 1910: Los Angeles Assembly District 75, Los Angeles, California
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Female
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
William Hall 46
May Hall 38
Oliver Marsh 17
May Marsh 15
Francis Marsh 12
Wildred Marsh 11
Donald Loveridge 20
Margaret Loveridge 20
Leslie Loveridge 2
Caul Authony 26
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