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Mae's Duesie: 1925

        Silent film star known as "The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips" or, less painfully, "The Gardenia of the Screen." Or maybe: "Screen Star Enveloped in Swarm of Gardenia-Loving, Lip-Stinging  Bees."
San Francisco circa 1925. "Film star Mae Murray and Duesenberg auto." 6½ x 8½ inch glass negative, originally from the Wyland Stanley collection. View full size.

        Silent film star known as "The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips" or, less painfully, "The Gardenia of the Screen." Or maybe: "Screen Star Enveloped in Swarm of Gardenia-Loving, Lip-Stinging Bees."

San Francisco circa 1925. "Film star Mae Murray and Duesenberg auto." 6½ x 8½ inch glass negative, originally from the Wyland Stanley collection. View full size.

 

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