MAE MARSH

Seated Portrait

 Vintage, sepia, soft focus, 10 1/2"   x  12 1/2", double weight

by

De Gaston with their pencil signature

Condition: minor signs of handling

Signed and inscribed in black fountain pen: 

"For Mr. Simon, Sincerely Mae Marsh"

 

Mae Marsh was an American film actress with a career spanning over 50 years.

 Her

 silent film career included films for director D.W. Griffith: The Birth of a Nation

(1915), Intolerance (1916), The White Rose (1923). 

She became a favorite of director

John Ford: How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Robe (1953), The Searchers (1956).

 

Born: 1894, Madrid, New Mexico; died: 1969, Hermosa Beach, California.