Mae West: Fully Developed

The Palm Beach Post-Times wrote an interesting piece about MAE WEST. This is Part 1 of two sections.
• • “Mae West: Juice and Water, Please” • •   
• • LOS ANGELES, Calif.  Mae West lives in a five-room apartment in a quiet section of old Los Angeles, near the Truth Chapel. She is a startlingly beautiful woman with alabaster skin, wide-set sapphire blue eyes, framed with long black eyelashes and a trace of eyeshadow. For a quick moment before she spoke, I wondered if I were faced with a stand-in, a lady some 40 years younger than Miss West's chronological age. I wondered aloud if she had heard of the wine inspector who had said once, “The 1921 (vintages) were like Mae West, fully developed from the start.”
• • Mae West said, "I don't drink and I don't smoke.” She quickly added with a laugh, “But I really think I should have tasted that." 
• • I asked her how it felt to be the only star in show business to have her name in the dictionary.
• • "You know how it all started, don't you?" • •  . . .
• • This is Part 1 and the conclusion will be posted tomorrow.
• • Source:  The Palm Beach Post-Times; published on Sunday, 21 September 1969. 
• • On Sunday, 2 May 1982 • •
• • In the United States the bio-pic "Mae West" was shown on TV on Sunday, 2 May 1982. Actress Ann Jillian was cast in the title role. To announce this, Chicago TV Week Magazine put a beautiful photo of Mae on their cover; this issue was dated for May 2nd, too.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •

• • Mae West is memorable for a phrase she used during the weeks prior to her Homecoming Weekend: "Call me anything — — but call me often."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I think Dior looks good on Dior."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Film Daily mentioned Mae West.
• • Ralph Wilk wrote: Hollywood — Emanuel Cohen has signed Warren William for three films to be made by his Major Pictures unit for Paramount release in the year ahead. His first role will be opposite Mae West in the screen version of "Personal Appearance."  . . .
• • Source: Item in West Coast Bureau of Film Daily; published on Wednesday, 22 July 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 13th anniversary • •  

• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past thirteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 3,800 blog posts. Wow!  

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started thirteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3950th 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: Publicity Bonanza

On Sunday, 2 May 1982, the MAE WEST bio-pic received a moment by moment review by John J. O'Connor in The New York Times. This is Part 4.
• • TV View: "Ann Jillian Delivers a Fresh Portrait of Mae West" • •
• • John J. O'Connor wrote:   Val is impressed, but, fingering his rhinestone necklace and earrings, he warns her: ''Don't sell so hard — — the game is illusion.'' With his makeup guidance, she is transformed from the brunette in ordinary vaudeville tights into the blonde in white satin. Her new class act includes male backup dancers in tuxedos. Mae West is on her way, with no time for Timony's marriage proposal: ''I'm having fun with my career, and I want to enjoy it'' — — which brings the story back up to 1927 and the trial scene. Convicted of ''corrupting the morals of youth,'' Mae pointedly observes, ''That's what they got Socrates for.'' Asked if she is trying to show contempt for the court, she explains that she is only trying to conceal it.  Her brief stay in jail proves to be a publicity bonanza.
• • The second half of the film deals primarily with Miss West's years in Hollywood, years that are sketched rather rapidly as a period of unhappiness and frustration, although they produced some of her most memorable work. The filming of ''Night After Night'' with George Raft had the actress in constant battles with the director. After seeing a preview, Raft commented that ''Mae West stole everything but the cameras.'' Her films with a young discovery named Cary Grant are briefly mentioned, and the classics with W.C. Fields are given even shorter shrift as he (played by Chuck McCann) is seen irritating his co-star with his drunken off-camera antics.
• • Meanwhile, an exasperated Jim Timony has walked out on Mae . . .
• • This was Part 4.  On Monday you can read Part 5, the article's conclusion.
• • Source: TV Review by John J. O'Connor  for The  N.Y. Times; published on Sunday, 2 May  1982.
• • On Saturday, 6 May 1944 • •
• • Syndicated columnist Earl Wilson reviewed "Catherine Was Great" and his comments were printed in the Los Angeles Daily News on Saturday, 6 May 1944.
• • On Thursday, 6 May 1976 • •
• • In conjunction with the news that "Sextette" starring Mae West was going into production, a light went on in City Hall.  Tom Bradley, mayor of Los Angeles, announced that he was creating a special Mae Day and issuing a proclamation in the movie queen's honor. Bradley presented West with a scroll validating her "valuable and important role" in the movie industry on Thursday, 6 May 1976.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • It's a film event when Mae West's leading man in "Belle of the Nineties" co-stars with the glamorous star of "Berkeley Square."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Keep cool and collect."
• • Quote, Unquote • •

• • A movie magazine mentioned Mae West.
• • "Mae West" • •
• • And while Broadway gets the hot-cha Velez girl, Hollywood gets Mae West, who is Broadway's idea of a daring damsel. The movies really captured her first for "Night After Night," to play a wisecracking night-club hostess [sic] — but when she stole the picture from George Raft, they wouldn't let her go. 
• • For she's that rare kind of "find" — and exotic with a devastating sense of humor. So now she's playing Lady Lou in "She Done Him Wrong" — with Cary Grant, the not-altogether-unfortunate "Him" . . .
• • Source: Motion Picture; issue dated for April 1933
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 11th anniversary • •
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past eleven years. The other day we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 3,400 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • • 
• • The Mae West Blog was started ten years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3436th 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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