Mae West: Bursting Free

MAE WEST came to the attention of Tinseltown ninety years ago in 1932. Step into the Time Machine with me for a long, leisurely ride. This is Part 49 of 68.
• • Mae West in Hollywood 1932 – 1943 • •
• • Mae West: A sneaking suspicion • •

• • Andy Goulding wrote: This is Mae West trying her hand at something lightly charming rather than boisterous and bawdy and, while the results aren’t terrible, neither are they in any way remarkable.
• • Andy Goulding wrote: “Go West, Young Man” is pleasant enough company for 80 minutes but it drags even across that short time.
• • Andy Goulding wrote: I have the sneaking suspicion that it is the presence of West that scuppers the film more than anything.
• • Andy Goulding wrote: For the first time she seems like she’s been successfully suppressed and appears as desperate to burst free of the material than she normally is to burst the buttons on her dress.
• • Andy Goulding wrote: This is definitely minor Mae West.
• • Mae West: It’s something more boisterous • • …
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Blueprint Reviews U.K.; posted on Friday, 3 December 2021.
• • On Sunday, 30 November 1980 in Los Angeles • •
• • An article by Richard Meryman, "The One and Only Mae West," was printed in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner on Sunday, 30 November 1980.
• • November 1994 in The Collector • •

• • An article "Sex Legend's Apartment Sale" appeared in the November 1994 issue of a magazine, The Collector.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • British film fans agree that  Mae West and Gary Cooper are such acknowledged favourites.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "This was live theatre show business as I liked it. And it liked me."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A Los Angeles steakhouse's owners mentioned Mae West.
• • Founded by Fred and Grace Cook back in 1921, the Pacific Dining Car has been in the business of quality steaks for over 100 years.
• • The Pacific Dining Car was born in a railway train car parked on a rented lot in downtown Los Angeles.
• • In 1923, the Cook's 7th and Westlake location was bought out by a speculator, forcing the restaurant to relocate to its current site at 1310 W 6th Street in Los Angeles.
• • The Pacific Dining Car was an early favorite of the Hollywood set, with Mae West, Louella Parsons and Mickey Cohen counted as regulars.
• • One article said this: “Every evening brought a sprinkling of the famous or notorious personalities of the day. Louella Parsons was a regular, with her husband, Dr. Martin, and George Raft or Sid Ziff frequently stopped in for dinner. When Mickey Cohen and bodyguard dined, other guests tended to finish dinner and fade away — — but Mae West and bodyguard guaranteed quickly concealed admiring stares.”
• • The original Pacific Dining Car (1310 W. 6th Street), is up for historical designation by the City of Los Angeles, which will pave the way for restoration! ...
• • Source: PDC website; date posted November 2022
• • 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 18th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past eighteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 5,100 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started eighteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,128th 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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Mae West: Sly Seduction

MAE WEST came to the attention of Tinseltown ninety years ago in 1932. Step into the Time Machine with me for a long, leisurely ride. This is Part 48 of 68.
• • Mae West in Hollywood 1932 – 1943 • •

• • Mae West: Attempts to seduce • •
• • Andy Goulding wrote: The action mostly revolves around Mae West’s attempts to seduce the handsome mechanic who is charged with the task of fixing her expensive car (a young Randolph Scott) against the wishes of her redoubtable and over-protective manager, played by Warren William.
• • Andy Goulding wrote: Alice Brady and Elizabeth Patterson are also good as the other small town boarding house inhabitants.
• • Andy Goulding wrote:This is actually lucky since the film spends much longer with these supporting characters and with Mae West offscreen longer than was common in a Mae West motion picture.

• • Note: Isabel Jewell plays a starstruck, Garbo-impersonating maid and gets a few big laughs.
• • Feels like an experiment • •
• • Andy Goulding wrote: Ultimately, however, “Go West, Young Man” feels, for all its ordinariness, like an experiment.
• • Mae West: A suspicion • • …
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Blueprint Reviews U.K.; posted on Friday, 3 December 2021.
• • On Saturday, 29 November 1941 • •
• • Liberty Magazine published a quiz "The Comedians' Comedians" supposedly penned by W.C. Fields. Several clues were about actress Mae West and actor W.C. Fields.
• • The publication date was the last Saturday in November — — on 29 November 1941.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Constance Cummings, Harold Lloyd's leading woman in "Movie Crazy," has been signed for a leading role in "Night After Night" with George Raft, Wynne Gibson, Mae West, and Alison Skipworth.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "You've got to keep cool and calm to collect when you're in there trading punches."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An excerpt from "Celebrity, Inc: How Famous People Make Money" by Jo Piazza mentioned Mae West as the first celebrity who influenced the fragrance industry.
• • Jo Piazza writes: Celebrity fragrances can be an ATM for famous people — — paying high dividends for very little investment of time or money. ... The marriage between fame and fragrance also goes back decades, to the 1930s, when the fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli designed a curvy perfume bottle modeled after the actress Mae West’s figure. …
• • Source: reposted by Rack.com on Monday, 21 November 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 18th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past eighteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 5,100 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started eighteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,127th 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.

• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Ensemble Farce

MAE WEST came to the attention of Tinseltown ninety years ago in 1932. Step into the Time Machine with me for a long, leisurely ride. This is Part 47 of 68.
• • Mae West in Hollywood 1932 – 1943 • •
• • Mae West: The main attraction • •
• • Andy Goulding wrote: The main attraction of Mae West films had always been Mae West.

• • Andy Goulding wrote: This story of a movie star who becomes stranded in a small town boarding house leans more towards an ensemble farce and West feels a little lost amongst a strong cast struggling with bland material.
• • Andy Goulding wrote: As with “Klondike Annie,” Mae West gives a deliberately more subdued performance here, her lusty excesses reigned in (if still very much pivotal to the plot) and her one-liners traded for light character comedy.
• • Andy Goulding wrote: For the first time ever, a co-star is allowed to steal the film, with Isabel Jewell’s starstruck, Garbo-impersonating maid getting what few big laughs there are.
• • Mae West: Attempts to seduce • • …
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Blueprint Reviews U.K.; posted on Friday, 3 December 2021.
• • On Monday, 28 November 1932 • •
• • At the MPPDA board meeting on Monday, 28 November 1932, Adolph Zukor made promises to Will Hays that only "suitable material" would find its way into the script and the "Diamond Lil" title was already gone.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •

• • Mae West and diamonds were almost synonymous even before the creation of her most memorable character: Diamond Lil.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Everyone said I had to get thin. I figured they knew this racket and I didn’t, so I went on one of them Hollywood diets.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on Cary Grant mentioned Mae West.
• • "My Favorite Star" • •
• • Peter Bogdanovich wrote: Another big thing was gleaned from his successful experience on two pictures playing the love interest to Mae West. In both She Done Him Wrong (1932) [sic] and in I’m No Angel (1933), Cary is the object of Mae’s affections and desires. She pursues him, rather than the other way around. Indeed, she makes one of the screen’s most famous (and most misquoted) invitations to Grant in their first scene together: “Why don’t cha come up sometime, an’ see me?”
• • Peter Bogdanovich wrote: Cary Grant’s a minister [sic], and says he hasn’t the time. She responds, “Say, what’re you tryin’ to do, insult me?!”
• • Peter Bogdanovich wrote: What Cary took home was that it’s better to be wanted than to want, and once he established himself as a star in 1937, it never was otherwise. ...
• • Article (with errors) for The New York Observer; published on Tuesday, 25 November 2008
• • 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 18th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past eighteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 5,100 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started eighteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,126th 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.

• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Output Compromised

MAE WEST came to the attention of Tinseltown ninety years ago in 1932. Step into the Time Machine with me for a long, leisurely ride. This is Part 46 of 68.
• • Mae West in Hollywood 1932 – 1943 • •
• • Mae West: Excessively compromised • •
• • “GO WEST, YOUNG MAN” (82 mins, 1936) • •
• • Mae West’s role was Mavis Arden • •

• • Andy Goulding wrote: While the iron grip of the Hays Code had certainly affected Mae West’s output more visibly since 1934, she had managed to continue making films that still had enough of her persona and ideas behind them to be unique and entertaining.
• • Andy Goulding wrote: With “Go West, Young Man,” Mae West seems excessively compromised for the first time.
• • Andy Goulding wrote: Based on a play by a male playwright rather than one of her own works, West’s adaptation struggles to combine the material with her own strengths.
• • Mae West: The main attraction • • …
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Blueprint Reviews U.K.; posted on Friday, 3 December 2021.
• • On Wednesday, 24 November 1976 in Australia • •
• • An article "The Two Hidden Faces of Mae West" appeared in The Australian Women's Weekly on Wednesday, 24 November 1976.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •

• • Will Hays wrote to Adolph Zukor about "She Done Him Wrong" on 23 November 1932.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Gold goes up and down and so does everything else. But there'll always be dames wanting diamonds, and guys to buy them for them."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Stanford Daily mentioned Mae West in a "midnight" show that actually started at 11 pm.
• • Coming on Saturday — — Mae West in "I'm No Angel" — — Midnight show — — Saturday at 11 pm — — Stanford Theatre ...
• • Source: The Stanford Daily; published on Thursday, 23 November 1933
• • 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 18th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past eighteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 5,100 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started eighteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,125th 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.

• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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