Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Mae West: Alyce Ardell

MAE WEST may have preferred to forget the release date of her last fading screen beams in "Sextette," which opened in early March — — on 3 March 1978.
• • Did you know that, in her earliest years of being cast in productions, Mae often played an Irish maid? Surrounded in childhood by Irish relatives, Mae became an expert mimic and enjoyed being applauded for her ability to imitate several different shadings of Irish accents. However, to pole vault herself over the wall of that low comedienne ghetto, Mae knew she had to write her own scripts. Not every actress can convince a Hollywood studio boss, however, that she was not made to be a maid forever.
• • Born as Marie Alice Pradel in Paris on 14 November 1902, the French voice actress Alyce Ardell lent her sexy accents to several intriguing cartoons as well as shorts and many motion pictures in which she was often cast, yes, as a French maid from 1925 — 1939.
• • When she worked with Mae West in "Go West, Young Man" [1936] she portrayed Jeanette, a French maid. She retired early from the cinema, perhaps out of frustration.
• • Alyce Ardell died at age 95 in Laguna Hills, California in the month of March — — on 3 March 1996.

• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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