English: Publicity photo of Mae Busch from Stars of the Photoplay. Mae Busch is an Australian by birth, but was educated in New Jersey. Her original ambition was to become a singer. She began her career in vaudeville. She made her first big hit on the screen in "The Devil's Pass-Key," a picture directed by Erich von Stroheim. She was given her greatest opportunity in pictures in Maurice Tourneur's production of "The Christian." Her parents were theatrical people, known as the Busch-DeVore Trio. She is about twenty-eight years old, is five feet, five inches tall, weighs 130 pounds, and has black hair and grey eyes.