MAE WEST gave various accounts about the inspiration for Diamond Lil and other particulars when she was still a Hollywood newcomer. Caroline Somers Hoyt interviewed Mae in January 1933. Her piece was published in the May issue, available to subscribers at the end of April. This is Part 13 of 13, the final segment.
• • Bad, Bad Woman: Meet Mae West, a truly remarkable woman • •
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt spoke to Mae for Modern Screen • •
• • Mae West: Speaks a man's language • •
• • Hoyt wrote: They know what kind of roles she has played and when Mae comes into the room all the nice little Hollywood girls cast anxious glances at their boy friends and decide it's about time to go home.
• • Hoyt wrote: Hollywood had never seen anything quite like her. She's so doggone honest and sincere and real and — well — just what she is, Mae West.
• • Hoyt wrote: I asked her if the roles she played didn't make people misunderstand her — make them think she, herself, was that sort of woman.
• • Hoyt wrote: "Certainly!" said Mae. And then I asked her what she did to counteract that impression.
• • Mae West is not trying to change your opinion of her • •
• • Hoyt wrote: "Well, I'll tell you," Mae West said. "I don't try to change anybody's opinion. A person who is interested in the sort of woman I characterize likes it a lot better if he thinks I'm that sort, too. And people who are not interested in women like that — well, they're just not interested at all. So I just don't bother.”
• • Hoyt wrote:Mae West added, "People can get any sort of impression about me they want to have. And I'm still not doing so bad!"
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt's 1933 interview has now been concluded. That was fun!
• • Tell us what you thought about Mae's conflicting accounts about what inspired "Diamond Lil."
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for May 1933.
• • On Thursday, 9 March 1933 • •
• • On Thursday, 9 March 1933, a letter was sent by Will H. Hays, President, MPPDA, to James Wingate, Director, Studio Relations, Association of Motion Picture Producers. The bone they had to pick was Mae West's "She Done Him Wrong." Hays emphasized: "I cannot too strongly urge you to proceed in the strict enforcement of the Code. ..."
• • Did Will Hays tuck into others as much as he cut into Mae West?
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Vernon Scott wrote: The wailing may be somewhat subdued but Mae West is still a siren, at least in her own mind, and she's back at work in a new movie appropriately titled "Sextette."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A column on Hollywood stars mentioned Mae West.
• • Mae West Trades in Diamonds Against Day of Film Fade-out • •
• • Star Has Become Shrewd Bargainer in Gems And Does Own Buying and Selling • •
• • (A.P.) Quietly, lest there be "a little trouble up at my place," Mae West is adding authority to her title, Diamond Lil.
• • She has been buying, trading and selling diamonds. She has calipers, forceps, small karat-scales, a jeweler's vise, chamois bags, plenty of black velvet trays, a powerful electric lamp, and two or three of those little black magnifying glasses that you screw into your eye like a monocle.
• • Thus armed, Mae West will take on all who come with diamonds to sell or trade. ...
• • Source: Associated Press; syndicated on Wednesday, 17 February 1937
• • 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 4,600 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,686th 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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