Mae West: December 1933

As 1933 was ending, MAE WEST had the sweet satisfaction of box office success - - along with a contract from Paramount Pictures granting her creative control over her films (and a lucrative two-picture a year deal). The promise of an oustanding future in the movies was quite a Christmas present.

• • In an interview for the Los Angeles Sunday Dispatch, Mae West reflected on the initial reception she had received in California when she arrived in the summer of 1932. Filmtown, said Mae, had given her "the biggest frozen handshake I'd had in years."
• • "Hollywood, when I lifted the toothbrush and the corsets off the overland train," Mae added, "just looked limp. There wasn't even a band to play the girl to her new home. The nearest cameraman was about 20 miles away. Just for a minute, as I hiked to the taxi rack, I reckoned that Mae West stock had taken a Wall Street high ball."
• • Source: Los Angeles Sunday Dispatch, 6 January 1935.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West
• • Illustration: Mae West • • 1933 • •
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