Mae West: Wrinkle Cure

Despite all you think you know about MAE WEST, there’s always something new. Did you know that Mae West refused to sit down while filming a scene because it would wrinkle her dress, for instance?  
• • This intimate interview with Mae West was first seen in 2009. This is Part 27 of 29 parts.
• • From the Archive: A Candid (and Entertaining) Interview with Mae West • •
• • Mae West said:  “I'd rather stand than wrinkle my dress on a set.”  • •  
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote:   Mae West said this about fashion: “When I was making a film, I would stand during the whole shooting, seven hours a day, so I wouldn’t wrinkle my dress. They’d say to me, ‘Mae, aren’t you tired?’ But I didn’t let myself get tired.”
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote: Mae West said: “I’d say to myself, do I want to look my best for my public that expects it of me? Or would I rather sit down? That wasn’t any choice.”
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote:  “I was always indefatigable. I never knew exactly why. I always had this extraordinary energy that I had to do something with. They only just found out that I had a double thyroid. Always had it, but I didn’t know it. Maybe that’s been the source of my energy, especially my sex energy.“
• • Mae West said: “They said I had a double thyroid.” • • ...
• • This long and fascinating interview will be continued tomorrow.
• • Source: AnOther Magazine; published  Autumn—Winter 2009 issue; rpt on Wednesday, 27 May 2020.    
• • On Saturday, 19 August 1939 • •

• • It is rather difficult to see what Mae West or her advisers could detect in the famous Russian Empress which made her suitable for a Western impersonation. It is true that she was no angel and had a habit of inviting her male favorite for the time being "to come up and see her sometime." Anyhow, whatever the attraction or illusion may have been, Miss West seems to have abandoned the project.  ...
• • Source:  Article: "News of Mae West" rpt in The Advertiser (Adelaide); published on Saturday, 19 August 1939.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Exploited smartly, "Belle of the Nineties" should do Golden Mae West business even though repeat bookings may or may not be so abundant.  
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “The curve is mightier than the sword.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Playbill mentioned Mae West.
• • “Badass: Sex, Music, and Making Mae West” • •
• • Emily Skinner will offer songs that Mae performed in her 75-year career and will detail why Mae West serves as the perfect guide to everything you’d ever need to know about life. …
• • Source: Playbill; published on Monday, 19 August 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 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 4,543rd 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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