Mae West: Soft Curves

“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 1 of 4 excerpts.
• • Mae West’s Secret to Keeping Her Signature Curves • • 
• • Jess Catcher wrote: Even decades after her heyday in Hollywood, Mae West is still remembered for her enviable figure and sassy quotes. At a time when other major starlets were maintaining the petite flapper girl frame, West embraced her curves — and the attention that came with it.
• • Jess Catcher wrote: When discussing her looks over the years, West would mention her hourglass shape by saying things like, “Cultivate your curves — they may be dangerous, but they won’t be avoided.” She also quipped, “I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.” Well, we have to admit, it’s hard to disagree with that logic!
• • Mae West believed in regular exercise • •  . . .
• • This four part series will be continued tomorrow.
• • Source: Woman’s World; published on Monday, 22 July 2019
• • On Saturday, 15 June 1935 • •

• • It was on Saturday, 15 June 1935 that Mae West made headlines in The Hutchinson News [Hutchinson, Kansas].  Here's the story:  A controversy developed over Hollywood starlet Mae West's sometimes marriages. Her latest film "Goin' to Town" at the air-conditioned Fox Theatre, featured West as a married woman taking two husbands and the third — — who had met an untimely demise — — all to get her clutches on the one she actually wanted.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Don Mario, the heir of a supposedly wealthy family in Venice who came over here on a visit and went into a New York night club as a singer to pick up some coin, may land in Hollywood. Mae West, who saw him at the nitery, has had a screen test made of the handsome young lad, Don Mario, with her next picture for Paramount in mind.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “The score never interested me, only the game.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An academic paper mentioned Mae West.
• • Jenna Simpson wrote: As Mae West complained in 1934, "'Why, in pictures, you don't have to worry about censorship— — much — — once you learn the rules.... In New York they let you go ahead and do it and then they break in and arrest you." . . .
• • Source: “Reforming the Stage and Screen: How Expectations, Audiences, and Economics Shaped the Film and Theatre Censorship Movements in Early-1930s New York” by Jenna Simpson; posted in 2005
• • 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 4,496th 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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