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Like much of early Hollywood history, much of Mae Marsh`s biography is shrouded in mystery and the creation of studio publicity people. The story of the Marsh children being taken to Hollywood by their aunt is often told, but according to the 1910 U.S. Census, the Marsh children were all living with their parents in Los Angeles, near downtown. Registered on the census form is mother May and a step-father named William Hall. Oliver T. was 17, Mae (registered as May) was 15, Francis was 12 and Mildred was 11. All of the children are listed as "step-children." Her older sister Marguerite (registered as Margaret) was 20, and was sharing the apartment with the family along with her husband Donald Loveridge and their daughter, 2 year-old Leslie. The children - all of whom would end up in the movies somehow - were not shopped around the studios by an aunt, but by their mother and step-father.
IMDb Mini Biography By: E.J. Fleming
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