• • The intriguing composition revealed the 75-year-old actress in her mirrored bed, garbed in white satin, and - - in the foreground - - was the exotic black long-tailed Tricky, Mae's pet woolly monkey, who had joined her Hollywood household in Apartment 611 just two years before.
• • Mae was photographed for Life by the 63-year-old lensman Philippe Halsman, who was born in Latvia on 2 May 1906. Aided by his friend Albert Einstein, Halsman emigrated to the United States. A portrait he took of the scientist became a US postage stamp in 1966.
• • In 1942, Halsman began working with Life Magazine. His portrait of a model wearing a Lily Daché hat was his first of the many covers he would do for the prominent weekly.
• • On 25 June 1979, Halsman died in New York City.
• • It is unclear what became of the docile, very photogenic long-tailed Tricky.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Woolly monkeys are hard to train and become unmanageable with age. Many were sold in pet shops years ago, now it is no longer allowed. Once out of the wild they cannot go back as they have no survival skills and once domesticated cannot be placed in zoos because other monkeys will harm them.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt Mae took exceptional care of her woollys and were beloved pets. :)