Mae West: And Sexifying

MAE WEST is one of the bad girl actresses mentioned in a long, fascinating series. Let’s have a look. This is Part 3.
• • “This Is the Action of a Very Naughty Young Lady” • •
• • The 1930s Glamour Factory, Fear of Socialist Agitators, and “The Luther of Burbank” • •
• • The irony of glamour • •
• • Kerry McElroy wrote: Mae West recognized something key: glamour was no indication of autonomy for women. In fact, it more often served as a regulating, monetizing force. West even recognized her own part in the perpetuation of the glamour-industrial complex, bemoaning women put into the “Mae West model” of makeover and sexifying who didn’t actually have theatre training or acting talent. “I had created a demand for the uninhibited glamour, but I was sorry for the girls being trained like seals for the part… a synthetic star (feminine) was compounded of one part good looks, two parts breastworks, and a world of mad, wild publicity” [Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It, 1959].
• • Mae West was unlike other Hollywood movie stars • • . . .
• • To be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Independent Magazine; published on Sunday, 30 September 2018.
• • On Friday, 8 March 2019 • •

• • International Women's Day (March 8th) is a global day celebrating the achievements of women.  Mae West was a woman who had achieved fame on stage and screen, thus we celebrate her trail-blazing career along with the performers who are still with us today.
• • International Women's Day (IWD) has occurred for well over a century, with the first IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland.
• • On Wednesday, 8 March 1978 • •
• • Mae West was discussed in a few news items prepared for Variety Magazine's issue dated for Wednesday, 8 March 1978.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The Hollywood Reporter reported that there were sixteen stories in the March 1934 Movie Mirror "and they all, individually, are worth the price of the magazine." Mae West appeared on the front cover of Movie Mirror. Inside, Harry Lang, the Boswell of Tinseltown, concluded his three-part series of the life story of Mae West. This fan magazine was 96 pages and cost a dime.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Let's have the interview in the bedroom so you can tell your grandchildren how you spent an hour in Mae West's boudoir . . . ummm, taking notes."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A Harlem daily mentioned Mae West.
• • Herb Boyd wrote: Zelda Wynn Valdes acquired national attention when she dressed the entire bridal party for the 1948 wedding of Marie Ellington to Nat King Cole. Such exposure expanded her clientele to include a retinue of notables — Josephine Baker, Eartha Kitt, Ruby Dee, Mae West, Marian Anderson, Edna Mae Robinson, the wife of the boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson, and Ella Fitzgerald.  …
• • Source: New York Amsterdam News; published on Thursday, 7 February 2019

• • 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 4165th 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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