The MAE WEST Blog wishes you health and happiness throughout the coming year.
• • We welcome your questions, your news related to the Brooklyn bombshell along with updates on Mae West productions and Mae-adjacent solo shows.
• • "Whyncha come up sometime? I'm home every evening."
• • 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/
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates another anniversary • •
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past twenty-plus 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 two decades ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,158th 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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