Despite all you think you know about MAE WEST, there’s always something new. Did you know that Mae West was wild about chocolates, even though she was a diabetic, for instance?
• • This intimate interview with Mae West was first seen in 2009. This is Part 24 of 29 parts.
• • From the Archive: A Candid (and Entertaining) Interview with Mae West • •
• • George Cukor said Mae West had a passion for chocolates • •
• • Mae West said: “Now a lot of people believe the way [my mother] did, and they aren’t called odd. Lots of fruit, vegetables, not many sweets, you know.”
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote: Mae kept looking at the gift-wrapped box I had set down on the table. “What’s that?” she asked with childlike enthusiasm.
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote: “I do have a passion,” Mae said. “What kind of chocolates are they?”
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote: “One is very healthy, with hardly any sugar. It has prunes and dried apricots inside. The other is a cream truffle.”
• • Mae West attacked a 2nd candy box • • ...
• • This long and fascinating interview will be continued tomorrow.
• • Source: AnOther Magazine; published Autumn—Winter 2009 issue; rpt on Wednesday, 27 May 2020.
• • On Sunday, 13 August 1961 in Miami • •
• • "Mae West Oomph Creates New Interest in Theatre" • •
• • Miami Beach Sun wrote: After touring the Midwest, "Come On Up" was staged in August in Miami's Cocoanut Grove Playhouse (air-conditioned, we hope).
• • "When the final curtain rang down, not a single customer made a rush to the exit. Everybody sat glued to his seat and Mae West took repeated curtain calls, from about the most enthusiastic audience I have ever seen in this theatre," gushed a critic for the Miami Beach Sun.
• • Ticket-holders commented on "the fabulous appearance of Mae West," who was putting her energy into "Come On Up" when she was 68 years old and in full command of the crowd.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • In “South Sea Sinner” actress Shelley Winters plays a Mae West character that the police are always deporting till she’s down to her last island.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I have been too busy for love — —but I love all men.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An art magazine mentioned Mae West.
• • Michaël Borremans explores the potent significance of painting and drawing with grim humour and surreal clarity • •
• • In this sense the artist divulges a great sense of play; in "A Mae West Experience" (2002), for example, a giant model of Mae West overwhelms a tiny crowd deafened by the loudspeakers embedded in her body; in . . .
• • Source: Frieze, Issue # 89; published on Tuesday, 1 March 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 16th 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 4,500 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,539th 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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