Mae West: Wicked Sex

During fan magazine interviews, MAE WEST was often coy, guarded, or made a game of her responses. But during this rare sit-down with Hilary Lynn, the subject of sex on screen steered Mae into being more sincere. Since this Westian gem has been overlooked for 85 years, we dusted it off for you Mae-mavens. This is Part 5 of 13 segments.
• • Has Mae West a Dual Personality? • •
• • Mae West advises you to go after your man boldly, but Hollywood's smoothest gents claim she doesn't practice what she preaches. • •
• • Mae West: When sex on the screen rears its wicked head • •

• • Hilary Lynn’s interview with Mae West: "I've even met the kind of fellahs who like to see sex rear its wicked head in a cosmopolitan atmosphere, where ladies with foreign accents and husbands who don't understand them, slither in and out of art museums, officers' balls, and hot houses filled with orchids and tiger lilies.”
• • Mae West disliked "sex sprinkled with tears" in a screenplay • •
• • Hilary Lynn’s interview with Mae West: "Then again, some folks like it sprinkled with tears, pale shining eyes and choking farewells.The it's-better-to-have-loved-and-lost-than-never-to-have-loved-at-all sort of thing. Like those pictures, 'Dark Angel' and 'Shanghai’,” Mae West explains to me.
• • Mae West: The worst is when sex in a film causes suffering • • …   
• • Modern Screen’s lengthy article will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for April 1936.
• • On Friday, 6 October 1933 • •
• • On Friday, 6 October 1933, Mae West wowed the world when Paramount Pictures released "I'm No Angel" directed by Wesley Ruggles and co-starring Cary Grant (in the role of Jack Clayton).
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • In early October 1937, Paramount Pictures announced that the venerable restaurant and hotel owner George Rector [1878 — 1947] would be co-starring with Mae West in her latest motion picture "Every Day's a Holiday."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I didn't have to learn about 'bad' women as every woman knows how 'bad' a woman could be if she makes up her mind to it."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A Hollywood columnist discussed Mae West and her home in Kew Gardens, NY.
• • "Not giving up her house in Manhattan nor her place in Kew Gardens" • •
• • Grady Johnson wrote: Miss West disclosed that she had no intention of giving up her New York residences — — the one in New York City and the other in Kew Gardens, Queens.
• • Mae West said: "I never intended to buy out here, but when my sister Beverly came out to the West Coast, she wasn't comfortable in an apartment. So, to please her, I'm house hunting. I'm not much good at running a house, so she'll be attending to all the details." . . .
• • Source: Times Herald (Olean, NY); published on Saturday, 26 September 1936  
• • 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 17th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past seventeen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,800 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,837th 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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