Get a closer look at some of Hollywood's perfect pairs.

Hollywood Power Couples

Get a closer look at some of Hollywood&#39;s perfect pairs.

"The Gentlemen" and "Slow Horses" return this fall, while the "Reacher" spin-off series "Neagley" makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

Get a closer look at these actors from their many TV and streaming series roles.

Streaming Stars, Then and Now

Born Mariska Megyzsi to Hungarian parents (her father was a violin maker who played in the San Francisco Symphony), Mae was one of those gals destined to be forever cast in the chorus line of lightweight musicals without ever attracting much notice. The exception was, in this case, the attention of numerous potential suitors, who included such luminaries as D.W. Griffith, Errol Flynn and Gary Cooper. A stunning blue-eyed blonde, Mae initially trained as a singer but began her career at the age of nine as a hoofer with 'The Megland Kiddies'. Someone once described her voice" as sounding like Betty Boop after one too many Martinis". Mae graduated from there to become a mainstay of the many lavish Busby Berkeley musicals made at Warner Brothers. She later recalled "When you worked for Bus, you always had a job!".

Her movie highlights included dancing the "Breakaway" (a derivation of the Charleston which had originated in 1920s New York) in the Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (1929). After landing a contract with Warner Brothers, she was given the female lead in John Wayne's second starring film The Big Stampede (1932) (although she lied to the producer about being able to ride a horse!), ended up being billed above then-newcomer Bette Davis in Edna Ferber's So Big! (1932) and the following year mixed it up with Warren William in The Mouthpiece (1932). Her career was pretty much washed up by 1935, but Mae left acting for other ventures, getting married, raising a family and eventually becoming a realtor in Covina and Claremont, California. After 75 years away from the screen, she was interviewed, along with many other actresses from the Golden Years, in a TV documentary entitled I Used to Be in Pictures (2000). Mae died four years later at the age of 89.

[on her marriage to director <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0568915/?ref_=nmqu_qu">William C. McGann</a>] He thought being married didn&#39;t mean giving up other women. He bought me a mink coat that reached from the ceiling to the floor with my name stitched into every pelt. The only problem was, he started seeing the girl who sold him the fur and then ditched me and married her.

I thought the costumes were wonderful. Scanty and beautiful, I thought they were flattering to the figure and we all had good figures then too. (Complicated Women 2003)

I&#39;m not a typical chorus girl. The girls I have known in choruses have all been about average, mixed with good and bad, just like people outside of choruses. No, I can&#39;t say I should like to be one at all. Everyone likes to think they&#39;re going to get something better some day. And typical people seem to sort of stand still. Footlight Parade (Warner Bros. Pressbook, 1933)

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