Mae Busch was an Australian-born actress who worked in both silent and sound films in early Hollywood. In the latter part of her career she appeared in many Laurel and Hardy comedies, frequently playing Hardy's shrewish wife.
Busch featured in The Blue Book of the Screen, 1923
Busch in the film publication the Stars of the Photoplay, 1924
Busch and her third husband Thomas Tate
Laurel and Hardy were a British-American comedy team during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema, consisting of Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957). Starting their career as a duo in the silent film era, they later successfully transitioned to "talkies". From the late 1920s to the mid-1950s, they were internationally famous for their slapstick comedy, with Laurel playing the clumsy, childlike friend to Hardy's pompous bully. Their signature theme song, known as "The Cuckoo Song", "Ku-Ku", or "The Dance of the Cuckoos" was heard over their films' opening credits, and became as emblematic of them as their bowler hats.
Stan Laurel, c. 1930
Oliver Hardy without his trademark moustache in Yes, Yes, Nanette (1925)
Laurel and Hardy in The Lucky Dog (1921)
Laurel and Hardy with Lupe Vélez in Hollywood Party (1934)