Mae Murray in Jazzmania

March is Women’s History Month. NY1920s always centers women’s history; this month we’ll do so a bit more emphatically.

One hundred years ago today … Jazzmania, starring Mae Murray, native New Yorke, raised on the Lower East Side , was reviewed in the New York Daily News. "If you like Ms. Murray, here's your picture. If you don't–well, it may set you on the road to conversion."

Murray had made her name and reputation as a dancer, appearing with the Ziegfeld Follies from 1909-1915 an many other productions.By the laet 1920a10s she was a serious movie star.  In the early 1920s,she was a trusee of Motion Picture & Television Fund. She would go on to produce films and write a newspaper column. 

– Jonathan Goldman, March 13, 2023

TAGS: entertainment, film, cinema, women, dance, vaudeville