Mae Clarke

Mae Clarke fascinates me as a study in how cinema remembers people. Two films in a single year, 1931, fixed her forever: the bride fleeing Karloff in Frankenstein, and the face meeting Cagney's grapefruit in The Public Enemy. She acted for decades and lived to 81, yet the culture froze her in those two indelible moments. I find that bittersweet but also telling. To be the one who makes a scene unforgettable is its own kind of mastery. Most actors work lifetimes without leaving a single image lodged in the collective memory; she left two.

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Name (English)

Mae Clarke

Name (Japanese)

メイ・クラーク

Reading

めい・くらーく

Born

August 16, 1910 – April 29, 1992

Origin

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Dog

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae%20Clarke
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q435532

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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