Mae West: Loose Enough

“Cultivate your curves. They may be dangerous but they won't be avoided,” said MAE WEST. Magazine writers are still finding new angles on that famous figure. Let’s take a look. This is Part 4 of 4 excerpts.
• • Mae West’s Secret to Keeping Her Signature Curves • • 
• • Mae West advocated for taking care of yourself • •
• • Jess Catcher wrote: We’re not sure if she was embellishing, but there’s no denying Mae West looked amazing her whole life. She put it more simply in a chat with Anjelica Huston for Interview magazine in 1974, “I eat the right foods, exercise, take care of myself.”
• • Jess Catcher wrote: Whether West was wearing a corset, working out, or relying on a natural boost of energy to maintain her curves, there’s one thing we can all agree on — her personality was what really sealed her legendary status. We’ll leave you with one more quote to remind you: “I like my clothes to be tight enough to show I’m a woman, but loose enough to show I’m a lady.”
• • This four part series has now been concluded with Part 4. Did you enjoy it?
• • Source: Woman’s World; published on Monday, 22 July 2019.
• • On Tuesday 18 June 1935 • •

• • On Tuesday 18 June 1935, the Camperdown Chronicle in Australia printed an article. Their local Theatre Royal was going to feature, as its Wednesday attraction, Mae West in "Belle of the Nineties."
• • Camperdown Chronicle wrote: Mae West's amazing new contribution to screen history, "Belle of the Nineties," reveals the Paramount screen sensation more beautiful and alluring than ever as the foremost charmer of the gallant Southland of the Gay and Naughty Nineties.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West offers a grand to any Yale man submitting an acceptable play synopsis.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises." 
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Roger Ebert mentioned Mae West.
• • Remembering Mae West • •
• • Roger Ebert wrote: Almost until the end, Miss West appeared in public in the same glamorous style. Arthur Knight, professor of cinema at the University of Southern California, recalls her appearance at his film class only five years ago. In the platinum gown and with a USC football player on each arm.
• • Mae West wore blue jeans • •
• • Roger Ebert wrote: She told the students that on "Every Day's a Holiday" (1937), "I wrote the screenplay in 57 seconds ... but it took a lot longer to make the movie." She confided that in her private life she wore jeans and a sweatshirt and worked with the horses on her ranch outside Los Angeles. But she was never, ever, photographed that way. …
• • Source: web site of Roger Ebert; published on Sunday, 23 November 1980
• • 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 4,400 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,499th 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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