- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 Untangling Mae Murray's Tangled Beginnings 1885–1899 -
2 Dancing into the New Century 1900–1907 -
3 Ziegfeld and the Millionaire 1908–1911 -
4 Life Is a Cabaret 1912–1914 -
5 From Footlights to Kliegs 1915 -
6 The Disillusions of a Dream Girl 1916 -
7 Ready for My Close-ups, Mr. Lasky! 1917 -
8 The Delicious Little Mae 1918–1919 -
9 On with the Dance 1920 -
10 Strutting Like a Peacock through Tiffany's 1921–1922 -
11 Mae the Enchantress 1923–1924 -
12 The Merry Widow and the Dirty Hun May 1924–March 1925 -
13 From Merry Widow to Gay Divorcée 1925 -
14 Princess Mdivani 1926 -
15 The Lion's Roar, the Baby's Cry 1927 -
16 A World of Cheap Imitation 1928 -
17 The Sound of Bee-Stung Lips 1929–1931 -
18 Oh, Brother! 1932 -
19 From a Prince to a Toad 1933 -
20 Losing Koran 1934–1940 -
21 Outliving Fame 1941–1957 -
22 Self-Enchantment 1958–1960 -
23 A Star in Twilight 1961–1965 - Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Professional Theater
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
- Screen Classics
Strutting Like a Peacock through Tiffany's 1921–1922
Strutting Like a Peacock through Tiffany's 1921–1922
- Chapter:
- (p.101) 10 Strutting Like a Peacock through Tiffany's 1921–1922
- Source:
- Mae Murray
- Author(s):
Michael G. Ankerich
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
This chapter focuses on Mae Murray’s most prolific and successful period in her film career. With such films as The Gilded Lily, Peacock Alley, and Broadway Rose, Mae could do no wrong. She and her husband, Robert Z. Leonard, established their own film company, Tiffany, and held control over every aspect of her films: casting, editing, costuming, and photography. Following several scandals that rocked the foundations of Hollywood, including the death of starlet Virginia Rappe and the murder of director William Desmond Taylor, a new organization of self-regulation was formed, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. Murray was among the first to lash out at the new organization. Censorship, she believed, ran the risk of robbing the industry of its spontaneity.
Keywords: The Gilded Lily, Peacock Alley, Broadway Rose, Robert Z. Leonard, William Desmond Taylor, Virginia Rappe, Censorship, Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Tiffany
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 Untangling Mae Murray's Tangled Beginnings 1885–1899 -
2 Dancing into the New Century 1900–1907 -
3 Ziegfeld and the Millionaire 1908–1911 -
4 Life Is a Cabaret 1912–1914 -
5 From Footlights to Kliegs 1915 -
6 The Disillusions of a Dream Girl 1916 -
7 Ready for My Close-ups, Mr. Lasky! 1917 -
8 The Delicious Little Mae 1918–1919 -
9 On with the Dance 1920 -
10 Strutting Like a Peacock through Tiffany's 1921–1922 -
11 Mae the Enchantress 1923–1924 -
12 The Merry Widow and the Dirty Hun May 1924–March 1925 -
13 From Merry Widow to Gay Divorcée 1925 -
14 Princess Mdivani 1926 -
15 The Lion's Roar, the Baby's Cry 1927 -
16 A World of Cheap Imitation 1928 -
17 The Sound of Bee-Stung Lips 1929–1931 -
18 Oh, Brother! 1932 -
19 From a Prince to a Toad 1933 -
20 Losing Koran 1934–1940 -
21 Outliving Fame 1941–1957 -
22 Self-Enchantment 1958–1960 -
23 A Star in Twilight 1961–1965 - Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Professional Theater
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
- Screen Classics
