Mae West: Saucy Screen Vixen

MAE WEST, costumed as "Maudie Triplett" in her slinky evening gown from "Night After Night," is the first comedienne featured in a brand new slide show highlighting female achievement in cinema.
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• • Saul Austerlitz writes: For someone telling the story of the American comedy film, one of the most striking subplots is the relative paucity of great female comedians onscreen. Especially when compared with television, which has nurtured the brilliant likes of Lucille Ball, Mary Tyler Moore and Roseanne Barr, the American film has remained mostly inhospitable to female comedians. The ranks of critically and commercially successful comic stars, past and present, have been dominated by men. And yet, with such luminous performers as Mae West, Katharine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, and Barbara Stanwyck, the American comedy is studded with remarkable women in unforgettable roles. ...
• • Saul Austerlitz describes "She Done Him Wrong" (Lowell Sherman, 1933) like this: "She Done Him Wrong" was batting practice for comedian extraordinaire Mae West (who also wrote the film's script), its script a series of softballs tossed the way of her amorous, amoral Lady Lou, each smacked out of the park with lackadaisical assurance. Cary Grant, unrecognizably young, is the official straight man here, representing the massed forces of overbearing gentility, but truth be told, there are nothing but straight men here. Their lines all serve as setups to West's wise, witty punch lines.
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• • Byline: Saul Austerlitz
• • Article: Funny Girls: 10 Great Comedies of Our Time — — Culture buff and author Saul Austerlitz outlines his picks for the best female-centric comedies of the last 100 years.
• • Published by: The Women on the Web — — www.wowowow.com/
• • Published on: 7 October 2010
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• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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