• • Mae West Relates Sexual Times to “The Saint” • •
• • Cary Grant, said Mae, was like a piece of jewelry • •
• • “Cary Grant was like a nice piece of jewelry,” Mae offered, “Nice to have around your neck for an occasion, but I wouldn’t want to make it a habit.”
• • Michael St. John wrote: When she mentioned Anthony Quinn she wouldn’t reveal too many details, except that the actor gave her a night she would never forget.
• • “He had seventeen orgasms.” she told me with an absolutely straight face.
• • Michael St. John wrote: “Seventeen! How in hell did you know?!
• • “Easy,” she continued. “Every time he had an orgasm, I put a mark on the wall.”
• • I couldn’t have a tape recorder with me • • . . .
• • This delightful article will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: St. John's Confidential File in Canyon-News (Calif.); published on Saturday, 24 October 2015.
• • 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!
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae is now working on her new contract by the terms of which she gets $100,000 a picture. They also say that the curvaceous one also gets about half that amount again for providing her own story.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “Look your best. Who said love is blind?”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Yorkshire Evening Post mentioned Mae West.
• • Andrew Hutchinson wrote this about Owney Madden: The racketeer’s closest pal, though, was the aspiring actor and future gangster movie regular George Raft, who had also grown up in Hell’s Kitchen. Romance came in the curvaceous form of Mae West, with some crediting Owney Madden for bankrolling her early Hollywood career. By the end of the Roaring Twenties, the lad from Somerset Street was a millionaire — — and living like one. Madden dressed stylishly, causing ripples of excitement simply by strolling through Manhattan . . .
• • Source: The Yorkshire Evening Post; published on Tuesday, 13 November 2018
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • •
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — —
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 14th anniversary • •
• • Thank you for reading,
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long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently
when we completed 4,000 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •• • The Mae West Blog was started fourteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4092nd 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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I'll say, Anthony Quinn gave Mae West a night she'd never forget. He was one of the few men who wiggled his way out of here bedroom and got away with it. Here is his side of the story: "In his autobiography, One Man Tango, Quinn recalled being ushered into Mae West’s bedroom. He found her “coarsely sensuous” and the “paint on her face and the thick perfume” reminded him of “the putas I was supposed to avoid.” Quinn, still in his late teens at the time, saw through West’s seduction and attempted to remove himself from what was happening. When Quinn failed to respond to Mae’s come-on she told him, “Boy, either you are one smart cookie or one stupid sonofabitch, I can’t quite figure.” Reaching to her nightstand West allegedly retrieved a wad of gum and according to Quinn “started chewing fiercely, almost cowlike.” “She couldn’t get rid of me fast enough”, Quinn wrote, “But she did cast me in her play.”
ReplyDeleteDuring an interview with writer Scott Eyman in the Winter 1974 issue of Take One, Mae West put a different spin on her encounter with Quinn. “As a matter of policy, I seldom get angry; it’s bad for you and almost never does any good. But I really boiled recently when I heard what Anthony Quinn said about me in his book that I tried to seduce him and all that. That’s an out-and-out lie! I met that man once in my life, in the ‘30s. He was working in a play that my manager was producing. I had no connection with it whatsoever. Anyway, he told Jack LaRue, who was a mutual friend, that he’d like to meet me. So LaRue brought him up and we talked for ten minutes and then he left. I never saw him again. And almost forty years later he puts that sort of stuff in his book! I’d like to get him for that.” Take you pick!
• • "Take your pick" of the version you believe, dear readers! Mae's words? Or Quinn's anecdote?
ReplyDelete• • Thank you, Mark. That was quite enlightening!