• • Chapter 1: Take the Spotlight — — Part Y • •
• • I sang comic dialect songs • •
• • Mae West wrote: One amateur night appearance was in a theatre where the audience were in the gay habit of throwing silver coins and wadded bills onto the stage as an expression of their approval. When this money was thrown at me, I let it lay.
• • The audience started throwing money • • . . .
• • To be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The Autobiography of Mae West [N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959].
• • On Tuesday, 1 March 1960 • •
• • "Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It" by Mae West was released on Tuesday, 1 March 1960.
• • On Tuesday, 1 March 1960 Mae West was a special guest on "The Red Skelton Show" on CBS-TV.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West in her latest picture "Every Day's a Holiday" — — as the gal that men forget to forget — —and look who she's doin' wrong! Edmund Lowe!
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "You can see for yourself, a girl's just as old as she feels."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A London daily mentioned Mae West.
• • Sarah Young wrote: A trend that’s vehemently associated with glamour – think Marilyn Monroe, Mae West and Las Vegas showgirls – the fashion world has been increasingly fixated on feathers of late.
• • Sarah Young wrote: Often referred to as the "Plume Boom," the popularity of wearing real feathers reached its peak in the early 20th century.
• • Source: The Independent [U.K.]; published on Friday, 22 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 4160th 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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For the past few weeks, I have been closely following your detailed posts concerning Mae West's autobiography. On various fan sites, dyed in the wool fans feverishly maintain she wrote every word. Having the very rare privilege of having read the typed galleys that Stephen Longstreet sent in a huge manilla envelope with a return address from his Beverly Hills home to Mae West in Las Vegas during her second residency at the Sahara Hotel. With my own eyes, I have seen Mae's hand written notes in the margin, and hand crossed out paragraphs that she deemed too telling. In my own research for my own manuscript, "In Search of Mae West," I have uncovered a lot about Mae's "secretaries" and advisers she very wisely chose to surround herself with. Personally, I believe she shaped her books from her own thoughts, but with limited formal education and by being on the road with her plays continually after her initial film career, she had little time to actually do much of the heavy lifting of writing her memoirs. That was an accepted way of being a celebrity who wrote books back in the day. No shade on Miss West intended.
ReplyDelete• • Thanks for your comment, Mark. How interesting to have seen Mae's handwriting on the typed galley (from Stephen Longstreet).
ReplyDelete• • The Mae West Blog did a series on her secretaries and personal assistants.
• • As a woman of limited education, Mae wisely hired employees who were good writers, typists, and proofreaders. She also worked with collaborators such as the playwright Adeline M. Leitzbach.
• • And it is a good strategy to assess where one's strengths are concentrated -- and to work with people who bring other talents to the project. No shade indeed!