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Auction History Result 9y320 MAE MURRAY signed letter 1931 entirely handwritten, great content about her last MGM contract! Date Sold 10/22/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Autographed Letter (measures 7 1/4" x 10 1/2" [18 x 27 cm]) (Learn More) Mae Murray (born Marie Adrienne Koenig) was an actress from the 1910s to the 1930s, who was nicknamed "The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips". She was a major silent star at MGM in the 1910s and 1920s, but in 1926, she married a former Russian nobleman named David Mdivani, who advised her to leave MGM, and that was a disastrous move, and after he helped drain her fortune, he divorced her in 1933, and remarkably, he won custody of their daughter! She lived most of her later life in extreme poverty, and passed away in 1965 at the age of 75. Some of her movies include: The Merry Widow, Valencia (in the title role), and Circe, The Enchantress Important Added Info: Note that this letter has been personally autographed (signed) by Mae Murray! It was sent by Miss Murray to famed gossip columnist, Louella Parsons. It is three pages entirely handwritten by Miss Murray, and it has great content! Towards the end, it talks about her appearing on a giant television screen (in 1931), and she says that it "made a sensation". At the beginning of the letter, she talks about thanking Miss Parsons for praising her performance in "High Stakes" in 1931. She said she has received a one-year contract offer from MGM for $160,000, and that she also has received an offer for a 16-month "personal appearance contract" that would pay her half a million dollars. She says she is trying to decide which is better for her. If you read what we wrote about her above, she followed the advice of David Mdivani, and she turned down the MGM contract. We don't know for sure, but we imagine she took the personal appearance contract, and then it fell through, which then led to her going bankrupt (as described above in our biography of her). So this letter documents the worst single decision she made in her acting career! Our consignor is a longtime dealer who acquired this signed item among many other purchases in his inventory, and he does not have a certificate of authenticity, but we believe the signature to likely be authentic. As is true of all the signed items we are currently auctioning, we give every buyer 30 days in which to review what they purchased and they can return any item as long as it is within 30 days of the end of the auction. On non-signed items, we give a "lifetime guarantee" on everything we auction, but on signed items, we give the above modified guarantee of 30 days after the auction closes. Condition: very good. The first page has uneven discoloration, but the other two pages, including the signature, are in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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