• • There is more to the rapid growth of Miss Mae West's public than meets the first glance, and it is more than hips, hips, hurray. ... Diamond Lil is Victorian on the other side of the fence and the fence is up, but the spirit of the ladies may also be up. They may refuse to stay on their side. In that case it is again good night to the dichotomies.
• • Source for this quote: Chicago Daily Tribune, 7 December 1933
• • In 1927-28, Mae West wrote the play Diamond Lil, which was a huge success on Broadway in 1928. Yea for Mae! A few years later, Paramount Pictures bought the manuscript from Mae and turned it into a movie. Mae selected an unknown British actor Cary Grant to co-star with her onscreen as a Manhattan-based Salvation Army officer in this classic which was set on the Bowery in the 1890s.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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• • Photograph: Mae West • • 1928 • •
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