Mae West: Erotic Turbulence

MAE WEST was part of the "golden age of turbulence" in Hollywood history, explains a British film fanatic. A few morsels from his juicy column appear below.
• • Geoffrey Macnab writes: Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s was a wildly contradictory place — — and its stars reflected this.
• • Geoffrey Macnab continues: On the one hand, in the early 1930s, the “golden age of turbulence” — — Mae West, Jean Harlow, James Cagney, and the Marx brothers were transgressive and risqué. This was the Depression era, and the sense of reckless desperation could be felt in musicals, gangster films and screwball comedies alike.
• • Geoffrey Macnab adds: But it was also the period in which Hollywood’s tendency toward self-censorship became evident. The so-called Hays Code had existed since the late 1920s, but its enforcement now became stricter. ...
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• • Article: "100 years of movie: The golden years — — In the dark decades of the 1930s and 1940s, the stars of the big screen shone more brightly than ever"
• • BY: Geoffrey Macnab, Film Columnist
• • Published by: The Independent [UK] — — www.independent.co.uk
• • Published on: 26 January 2010
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• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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