Earlier in November there was a fascinating talk about MAE WEST at an academic conference.
• • Alissa Clarke of DeMontfort University gave this presentation: "In Bed with Mae West: Movie Magazine Revelations of the Boudoir as Creative, Training and Central Scenic Space."
• • This (no doubt) fascinating discussion had been scheduled to take place on Friday, 13 November 2015. Where? Well, we knew you would ask. At Final Programme for Turning The Page: Digitalization, movie magazines and historical audience studies, Ghent University, November 2015.
• • On Tuesday, 30 November 1948 • •
• • Brooks Atkinson reviewed the New Jersey revival of "Diamond Lil" and his comments were printed in The New York Times on Tuesday, 30 November 1948 (on page 2). The title was "Mae West Hits Montclair" and Brooks Atkinson called Mae West "the goddess of sex."
• • In his admiring review of her 1948 reinvigorated Bowery queen romp through her popular "naughty nineties" hit, The New York Times drama critic Brooks Atkinson admitted he was moved to acknowledge what he called — — in an atypically poetic effusion — — ''the sublime fatalism of the entire business,'' and he went on to ask: ''Is she kidding or is she serious?''
• • On Sunday, 30 November 1980 in Los Angeles • •
• • An article by Richard Meryman, "The One and Only Mae West," was printed in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner on Sunday, 30 November 1980.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West told Earl Wilson she regrets never having met a former neighbor, Errol Flynn.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “When I sin, I'm in like Flynn."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The British journalists mentioned Mae West.
• • "Belle of the Nineties" At the Plaza • •
• • British movie critic Charles Davy wrote: The purity campaign in America has evidently cramped Miss Mae West's style. Compared with Tira, her voluptuous lion-tamer in "I'm No Angel," her Ruby Carter in "Belle of the Nineties" is a decidedly subdued and comparatively virtuous character. Indeed, in the somewhat murky atmosphere of the New Orleans music halls and boxing rings 50 years ago, . . .
• • Source: Review by Charles Davy in The Spectator [U.K.]; published on Friday, 30 November 1934
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 11th anniversary • •
• • Thank
you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these
past eleven years. The other day we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a
milestone recently when we completed 3,200 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started ten years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3322nd blog post.
Unlike many blogs, which draw
upon
reprinted
content
from
a
newspaper
or
a
magazine
and/
or
summaries,
links,
or
photos,
the
mainstay
of
this
blog
is
its
fresh
material
focused
on
the
life
and
career
of
Mae
West,
herself
an
American
original.
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up
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A motion picture starring MAE WEST took a college coed at Stanford by surprise. Let's read the second half of her charming film critique together.
• • The Reviewer • •
• • "I'm No Angel" (Paramount) At the Stanford Theatre • •
• • The story of Tira, the circus dancer and tamer of men and lions, is told with a maximum of gusto, and the snappy, sharp, and slightly racy dialog which only Mae West can write. It is to be regretted that the theatre advertisements have so completely appropriated the best and most characteristic lines, thereby taking away some of their tang. But people will probably become just as addicted to some of these lines as to some (not mentioning any names) of the former opus.
• • As usual, and also as might be expected, the star is the whole show, and if her characterization is any less frank and less thorough, it is probably because the Gay Nineties seems to distinctly her metier, and the present film is in a modern setting. But she makes a clearly defined and thoroughly consistent individual of Tira, and what more could one ask?
• • The songs of the show are somewhat furtively interpolated, toyed with for a moment, and then they disappear — — which will disappoint some. And some will be bothered by having the star announced with fanfares of trumpets and gilded curtains and other impediments, and also by having her surrounded with an army of negro maids who serve as "feeders" for some of the lines — — a fairly simple device.
• • Mae is still a fast-moving girl who likes 'em slow, and Cary Grant is charming as the hero, a role of which he makes the most. The others in the cast were amazingly obscure, through no fault of their own. — — Chapin
• • This has been Part 2. Part 1 was posted yesterday.
• • Source: Film Review by Miss Chapin for The Stanford Daily; published on Monday, 27 November 1933.
• • On Sunday, 27 November 1932 in Hollywood • •
• • Jon Tuska, writing about "She Done Him Wrong," notes that production commenced on Sunday, 27 November 1932, and concluded in December of that year. Fast work!
• • On Friday, 27 November 1936 in Princeton, NJ • •
• • The Daily Princetonian Special Bulletin announced (on page 2) on Friday, 27 November 1936 that a local movie house, the Arcade Theatre was showing "today and tomorrow Mae West in 'Go West Young Man' with Warren William, Alice Brady, Randolph Scott, Lyle Talbot" and the show times.
• • On Tuesday, 27 November 2007 • •
• • Released by the U.K. publisher St. Martin's Griffin on Tuesday, 27 November 2007 was "Mae West: It Ain't No Sin" by the biographer Simon Louvish. The paperback edition had 491 pages.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Lawyer Melvin Belli had also acted aggressively and effectively for film stars like Errol Flynn and Mae West.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Keep outta my room! I've got to have some place that's all my own . . . where I can go and shut the door and be by m'self!"
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Daily mentioned Mae West.
• • "Mae West's First Audiences Were Church Socials" • •
• • John C. Moffitt Tells the Story of Mae West • •
• • John C. Moffitt quoted Mae: "I wonder what some of those sour guys that are always deriding me would think if they knew my first work was on a church circuit?" Mae once speculated. "I played at all the big Catholic lawn socials and I filled in with what Protestant time we could get."
• • John C. Moffitt further explained: Mae West recalls these associations with simple church folk very kindly. She is said to be a regular contributor to Catholic charities in Los Angeles and you occasionally see her at Mass, although never at the early ones. She is not a communicant, according to members of her household. . . .
• • Source: The Straits Times (Singapore); published on Sunday, 25 November 1934
• • Drawing of Mae West in an end-of-the-century costume for her motion picture "Belle of the Nineties"
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 11th anniversary • •
• • Thank
you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these
past eleven years. The other day we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a
milestone recently when we completed 3,200 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started ten years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3321st blog post.
Unlike many blogs, which draw
upon
reprinted
content
from
a
newspaper
or
a
magazine
and/
or
summaries,
links,
or
photos,
the
mainstay
of
this
blog
is
its
fresh
material
focused
on
the
life
and
career
of
Mae
West,
herself
an
American
original.
•
•
Come
up
and
see
Mae
every
day
online:
http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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• • Photo: • • Mae West • • in 1934 • •
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