His appreciation of MAE WEST was well-known. They enjoyed a mutual admiration until Mae began to suspect he was copying her.
• • Born in Columbus, Mississippi in the month of March — — on 26 March 1911 — — Tennessee Williams included a chalkware statuette of the screen legend in "A Streetcar Named Desire."
• • Excerpt from a letter in Spring 1943 • •
• • • • Dear Don:
• • • • I am just getting settled, it is sunset of my third day here which seems like the third month at least. I have taken a little 2-room apt. in Santa Monica, nothing at all grand, in fact a very honky-tonk air about it with stained wallpaper and a plaster model of Mae West on the dresser and very gaudy curtains. ...
• • • • Tennessee Williams, Letter to Donald Windham, 12 May 1943.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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