Mae West: Hays Fever

The Hays Office monitored MAE WEST and Paramount Pictures non-stop during the making of "Klondike Annie."
• • The screenplay raised eyebrows because of its implications of interracial sex, representations of torture, and unpunished murder — which undermined the Hays Office's principle of "compensating moral values" — and, of course, because of casting Mae West as a sex-positive [unrepentant] prostitute.
• • A letter from a spokesman for Paramount to the censor Will Hays painted a rosy picture, however: "The ending of our story will be a romance between West and one of the characters in our picture, and it will indicate for the future a normal life and nothing that will bring condemnation from the most scrupulous [29 June 1935]."
• • In their heated replies to Paramount Pictures, there were more fireworks in letters from the Hays Office than on the Fourth of July.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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