Mae West: Unforgettable Frocks

On Thursday, 18 April 2019, there was an article discussing MAE WEST’s chops as a comedienne. Let’s enjoy it together. This is Part 4.
• • The Mae West test • •
• • the advance hype • •
• • Scott Marks wrote: Much of the advance hype referred to the film by its smut-suggesting original name, "It Ain’t No Sin," a title of which the Hays Office wanted no part. West and Leo McCarey, Hollywood’s matchless humanitarian and a man who worked with more great comedians than any other director, were indeed a mismatched pair. She was America’s reigning sex symbol; he was a deeply religious man who felt more comfortable around the chaste, less-libidinous likes of Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Bros., and W.C. Fields.
• • Scott Marks wrote: Elegantly-appellated fashion designer Travis Banton swathed Ms. West in unforgettable frocks for this one, including a torch-bearing (as if she needed one) Miss Liberty.
• • The tarnished reputation of Flower Belle Lee • • . . .
• • This article will continue on the next post.
• • Source: The San Diego Reader; published on Thursday, 18 April 2019.
• • On Saturday, 6 May 1944 • •

• • Syndicated columnist Earl Wilson reviewed "Catherine Was Great" and his comments were printed in the Los Angeles Daily News on Saturday, 6 May 1944.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • In this episode, Mr. Ed overhears Mae West commissioning Wilbur on creating ultra deluxe stables for her horses. When Ed overhears the conversation, he starts to get discontented with his own plain surroundings.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Guess Empress Catherine had to be smart to take all these different men and find out all they knew. In one scene I'll make her step on to a balcony and survey her regiment, crying 'My men!'  It will be a serious drama."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on the prayer “Our Father” mentioned Mae West.
• • Russell E. Saltzman wrote: We like our temptations miniaturized. We are too likely to talk about the refrigerator door, or the jump we made with glee on that left turn. As misattributed to Mae West (d. 1980), “’Lead me not into temptation?’ I can find it on my own.”
• • Russell E. Saltzman wrote: Mae West actually did not say that, great line though it is. No, what she did say, more or less speaking for all of us: “I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.” …
• • Source: Patheos; published on Thursday, 25 April 2019
• • 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 4,200 blog posts. Wow!  

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fourteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4206th 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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