Mae West: Had Grabbed

MAE WEST is one of the bad girl actresses mentioned in a long, fascinating series. Let’s have a look. This is Part 2.
• • “This Is the Action of a Very Naughty Young Lady” • •
• • The 1930s Glamour Factory, Fear of Socialist Agitators, and “The Luther of Burbank” • •
• • Mae West saw through the posturing of the moguls • •
• • Kerry McElroy wrote: Mae West saw through the posturing of the moguls, correctly situating them as mostly working class salesmen, far from art and culture, “who had grabbed a good thing and were annoyed that they now had to have writers and actors” (West’s memoir). She had scorn for upstart Los Angeles compared to her native New York City, as when she noted quite clearly, “I’m not a little girl from a little town making good in a big town. I’m a big girl from a big town making good in a little town.”
• • Kerry McElroy wrote: Upon her arrival in Hollywood, Mae West (1893-1980) was unimpressed with its trappings of glamour and proceeded to dominate the industry throughout the 1930s with her “outlaw” ways, making more money in the depths of the Depression than any American but William Randolph Hearst.
• • The irony of glamour • • . . .
• • To be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Independent Magazine; published on Sunday, 30 September 2018.
• • On Wednesday, 7 March 1934 • •

• • The Hollywood Reporter (issue dated for 7 March 1934) 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.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Diane Arbus wrote about the encounter with Mae West, writing in an article about it: "Nourished by her own legend, [Mae West] has outlasted every lover and initiated a nation of boys into manhood. She is imperious, adorable, magnanimous, genteel, and girlish, almost simultaneously."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I was a brazen little imp and could never keep out of trouble."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An Australian newspaper mentioned Mae West.
• • “Arbus and West” imagines what happened when Mae met Diane • •
• • Kerrie O'Brien wrote: Bawdy one-liners and an hourglass figure might bring Mae West to mind but they undersell her. She was a trailblazer, a radical progressive who championed feminism and gay rights and fought hard against censorship. In a career spanning six decades, West challenged the cloistered, conservative norms of Hollywood, and society as a whole.  . . .
• • Source: Sydney Morning Herald; published on Friday, 15 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 4164th 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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