Mae West: The Guardian

Mae West popped up in London's Guardian again, where the writers always show a warm appreciation for her talents.
• • Novelist and comedienne A.L. Kennedy was applauding "Hollywood's golden age."
• • The screwball casts were iconic, noted A.L. Kennedy.
• • Kennedy continued: Allow me to mention a few, in case they've slipped your mind. Female performers don't quite have the shelf life of their male counterparts.
• • Claudette Colbert — — intelligent, pixie-faced, legs that could stop traffic and an ability to exclaim in a charming and yet curiously mid-coital way. Carole Lombard — — fired with tenderness, a gleeful sexuality and hot, darting honesty. Rosalind Russell — — an actress with astonishing range, crackling, wiry energy and a perfectly enunciated delivery so rapid that, in more foolish times, she might have been burned as a witch. MAE WEST — — the smart and magnificent trouper. Barbara Stanwyck — — funny, gorgeous, feisty. . . .
• • Her article is called "Hollywood's screwball comedies were smart, sexy and subversive — — and they gave a generation of female stars the chance to shine." It's a fun read. Don't miss it.
• • Source: The Guardian [UK]
• • Byline: A.L. Kennedy
• • Published on: Saturday — — 1 March 2008
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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