Friday, June 03, 2022

Mae West: Appealed to Men

MAE WEST met her fans on the silver screen and between the pages of the day’s popular fan magazines, all of whom skated dizzily on the surface of facts and never did any fact-checking. This is the first section, Part 1, segment 14 of 32.
• • "The Real Mae West" • •
• • Mae West: Advocate of curves • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: She advised the skinny girl: "What the good Lord has forgotten, we'll put there with cotton," being an advocate of curves because "they will get you farther than an angle."

• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Mae West knows men and how to appeal to them.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: She knows, too, that the charm, the romance and the glamour of the Lillian Russell period captures man's imagination.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: She knows that men, though they flirt and play, and are often caught, to their sorrow, by the wide-eyed ingenue, really love women with charm and poise and worldly wisdom.
• • Mae West: Men know when they are being teased or hoodwinked • • ...   
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The New Movie Magazine; issue dated for June 1934.
• • On Wednesday, 3 June 1970 • •
• • A warm-hearted article appeared in "Boston After Dark" on Wednesday, 3 June 1970.
• • Deac Rossel, who enjoyed watching Mae in her latest motion picture, wrote this: There is no doubt that Mae West has the sex personality, parcels of valuable land, a unique career, and the adulation of film-goers both young and old. She also seems to have the stamina and desire now to begin a second movie career.
• • Deac Rossel concluded: Mae West is still, as Will Rogers once defined her, "The most interesting woman in Hollywood."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West was undisputedly the most controversial sex siren of her era.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him."  
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on bodybuilders mentioned Mae West.
• • Santa Monica columnist Jack Neworth writes: In Ric Drasin's life, he befriended Joe Gold (founder Gold's Gym), actress Mae West (appeared in "Sextette" her last movie in 1978), and our former Governor (and current pariah) Arnold Schwarzenegger, with whom Ric worked out daily from 1970 through 1974. ...
• • Source: Santa Monica Daily Press; posted on Friday, 3 June 2011

• • 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 5,000 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,008th 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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