Mae West: Power Walk

“In real life, I’m very boring, so I made up the walk and the talk,” said MAE WEST.
• • British freelancer Dr. Sabina Stent, whose area of study included “Women artists, Surrealism, and unconventional females,” penned a fascinating essay on Mae’s customized double-decker footwear. This is Part 8 of 27 parts.
• • “Get the Idea, Boys? Mae West’s Shoes” • •
• • Mae West’s Pepenie platform heels • •
• • Sabina Stent wrote: Even in my position as a devotee of old Hollywood movies and glamour—even as a scholar who has written and lectured on Italian fashion courtier Elsa Schiaparelli’s Shoe Hat—I was spellbound by their effect, completely awestruck at this feat of engineering; something I had heard about, but never seen, as if they were urban legend. It’s impossible to separate the footwear from the woman who once wore them.

• • Sabina Stent wrote: To see Mae West without these shoes would be akin to see her stripped bare, naked, not herself; this is footwear entwined with personality, character, and image. Aside from masking her petite stature, these Pepenie heels allowed West to hone that trademark sidle across the stage, a maneuver as synonymous with West as her naughty smile.
• • Mae West knew the power of her walk • •  . . .
• • This long essay by Sabina Stent will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Majuscule, Issue 2; posted in December 2019.
• • On Saturday, 30 December 1933 • •
• • Picturegoer, a British publication sold in movie houses, ran a three part series: "Making Love to Mae West." The first installment ran on 10 December 1933, then it continued on Saturday, 30 December 1993, and the final portion appeared on 6 January 1934.
• • Cary Grant's byline appeared. The actor either wrote it or, more likely, merely signed it.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • "Tropicana" — — Gregory Ratoff and Mae West (Columbia) just completed shooting with Xavier Cugat. 
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "You're never too old to become younger."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Good Men Project mentioned Mae West.
• • Hollywood, Hot and Outspoken Leading My Way! • •
• • Jessica Griffiths wrote: I was thinking about the same three women I'm always intrigued by: Marilyn Monroe, Mae West and Elizabeth Taylor. Three women, that weren’t afraid to be real, act real, and talk real.
• • Jessica Griffiths wrote: They were loved by many, chastised by some, judged for choices, labeled by mistakes and still all lived a life of great poise, intelligence and love. …
• • Source: The Good Men Project; published on Sunday, 15 December 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 15th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fifteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,300 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,377th 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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