Trivia

Was valued by early directors for her expert skill at "crockery throwing."

Known as "The Versatile Vamp" during the silent era.

Best remembered for her work in various Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedies, especially when playing Hardy's shrewish wife.

Several years after her death she would gain extra fame when Jackie Gleason frequently referred to her as "The ever-popular Mae Busch".

Her ashes weren't claimed until the 1970s by members of the "Way Out West Tent."

Financially supported her father Frederick Busch until his death.

Her star number at the Hollywood Walk of Fame is at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.

The house of her birth has a plaque recording her birth and placed there by Laughing Gravy Tent of the Laurel and Hardy Appreciation Society.

In the 1920s she lived in Hollywood at the Hillview Apartments at what is now 6533 Hollywood Blvd. The building survives and has been restored but is not available to the public.

She was educated in the US at a New Jersey convent.

She was born at 57 Page Street, South Melbourne. At some point later the house was re numbered 56.

Buried in the Chapel of the Pines, Los Angeles, CA.

Despite being born in Australia she had British nationality.

Aunt of Brenda Scott.

Made her film debut in a Mack Sennett short.

Daughter of Frederick William Busch and Elizabeth Maria Lay. Her mother was an opera singer and her father was a musician/conductor, and she financially supported him until his death.

Her parents were married on 2/6/1888.

From age six she was in America and started her career on stage in musical comedy and vaudeville.

She passed away aged 54 in 1946 at the Motion Picture Country House in the San Fernando Valley.

Many film roles followed after she left the Hal Roach Studios but in a great many she was uncredited.