• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West simply managed to entertain Americans and
make them laugh at the peak of the Great Depression.
• • As a gesture of gratitude, supposedly Paramount Pictures even named a
building at their lot after Mae West.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I'll never believe the worst about anybody without
complete proof, nor will I believe it's useless to struggle against so called
Fate."
• • Mae West said: "My advice to those who think they have to take off
their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the
illusion? Let 'em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me."
• • Mae West said: "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to
see me?''
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A foreign newspaper mentioned Mae West.
• • The headline was: "I've Come to Find
out, Says Mae."
• • The Singapore Free Press wrote: Mae West invited goggle-eyed British
reporters to "come up and see me sometime" when she ran the first
gauntlet of them on her arrival at Southampton at two o'clock on Wednesday
morning.
• • Just to keep everything above board, Mae asked them all to a press
reception at the Savoy Hotel, explained the Singapore-based reporter. …
• • Source: The Singapore Free Press; published on Tuesday, 23 September
1947
• • 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/
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material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American
original.
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It has always been told that Mae West gave the doctor a ride from a theater in Pulaski VA to my grandparents house when my mother was being born in April 1936. Moms older siblings said they saw her ride up in a fancy car and drop the doctor off. I wonder how I could prove it? Does anyone know if Mae kept a diary and where it may be now?
ReplyDelete• • It's doubtful Mae West kept a diary but this act of kindness -- giving a doctor a ride in Virginia to a house where a pregnant woman was ready to go into labor -- is entirely consistent with Mae West's benevolent nature.
ReplyDelete• • Aside from statements from aunts or uncles (who had no reason to lie about watching a physician arrive by car to deliver a baby), I don't know how you can "prove" it.
• • Just quoting your family members sounds like "proof" to me.
• • Is there a reason you do not take their word for it?
I am trying to find out whether there's any truth to claims that Mae purchased a house at 175 W. Channel Road (Pacific Palisades) in Santa Monica Canyon for Beverly. I can't find any records of that, or any mention of it other than claims by previous owners of the home that it was so. Mae West NYC - have you seen anything that would corroborate this? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteSorry. No information on that.
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