Mae West: Lost for 70 Years

MAE WEST pole-vaulted her way out of the clubby entertainment columns and grabbed the headlines in 1926. Page 1 suited her and her controversial plays and tense courtroom trials helped keep her there.
• • A theatre review of a New York City revival of the stage play "Sex" by Mae West ran in The New York Times on Friday, 24 December 1999 under this title: "Mae West's First Play (for the Stage, That Is)" and the drama critic seemed satisfied. An excerpt follows.
• • D. J. R. Bruckner wrote: If it helps a writer to know a lot about her subject, Mae West brought great authority to her first play, ''Sex,'' written and first produced in New York in 1926. The writing is not as accomplished as it is in some of her later film scripts, but there are enough characteristic West lines to let you know who the author was, and it was good enough to get her tossed into jail in 1927 as the creator and star of an indecent public performance. As a publicity stunt the trial was perfect; from then on she was a star whatever she did.
• • Lost for 70 Years • •
• • D. J. R. Bruckner explained: Oddly, the text of the play was lost for 70 years. So the show was never revived in the city. But now the Hourglass Group has resurrected it in a production at the Gershwin Hotel in Manhattan.
• • On Sunday, 24 December 2006 • •
• • "Baby, It's Cold Outside" • •

• • Pittsburgh reporter Maria Sciullo wrote a short article "Famous covers of 'Baby'" on Sunday, 24 December 2006 and this was how she began it: Try finding a version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" online, and hundreds of possibilities pop up. Here are some of the recordings available, from the obscure to the silly to the sublime (in order of most recent release date):
• • Mae West and Rock Hudson (performed at the 1958 Oscars; available as download only). ...
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Michael Chow’s fondest memory is of another Hollywood icon, Mae West, coming into the Los Angeles Mr. Chow: “The whole room stood up and applauded.”
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I walk two or three miles a day. I eat lots of proteins and . . . I don't think about anything that might bother me."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Daily mentioned Mae West.
• • “A Conversation with Edith Head” • •
• • Joanne Engelhardt | For The Daily News wrote: But, as depicted by Claassen, Edith Head was not always easy to work with. She was prickly, prone to feeling slights and not above occasionally snubbing someone who she felt had wronged her.
• • Joanne Engelhardt | For The Daily News wrote: Though there are a few times when Edith’s explanations run on a tad too long, it’s the gossipy parts about stars like Grace Kelly, Davis, Mae West, Elvis and others that make the show interesting. She calls Elvis “a nice boy” and openly shows her disdain for Claudette Colbert. She describes Elizabeth Taylor as beautiful, then adds that she had “two attributes: breasts and jewels.”
• • Source: The Mercury News; published on Friday, 14 December 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, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fourteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,100 blog posts. Wow!  

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fourteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4111th 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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