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MAE WEST, wrote a New York City film critic, is her own plot. Having spent years grooming and custom-tailoring her public image, Mae West only wanted to play the roles that would magnify that persona, a screen presence that was resourceful, triumphant, alluring, and youthful.
• • Curiously, Billy Wilder wanted Mae West to play Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard," a full-length feature released in August 1950. Billy had always found Mae West's image irresistible, ever since he had seen her early motion pictures for Paramount. In their commissary (and over at Lucey's), Mae and Billy had often chatted and swapped naughty narratives.
• • Billy Wilder was shocked to find Mae West more insulted than flattered at the chance to play a faded, eccentric, reclusive movie star. Shows you how much he knew about women, eh?
• • Born in Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary during the month of June — — on 22 June 1906 — — Billy Wilder entered the film industry in 1929 as a screenwriter, penning numerous scripts for German films until Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. Wilder immediately realized his Jewish ancestry would cause problems, so he emigrated to Paris, then the USA.
• • Billy Wilder [22 June 1906 — 27 March 2002] was a journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer, whose colorful career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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MAE WEST footage is included the latest gems now coming available via Universal Studios Home Entertainment. 
• • In Los Angeles City Beat, Andy Klein writes: The latest blessed events are the releases of four great comedies made at Paramount in the 1930s and 1940s. (Universal holds the rights to most of Paramount’s pre-1950 titles.) Back in those days, Paramount had handily the best comedy stable, from which emerged the best work of Mae West, W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, and Hope and Crosby — — as well as the early screenplays of Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder, both before and after they became directors.
• • The earliest — — Mae West’s "She Done Him Wrong" [1933] — — and the latest (Billy Wilder’s 1942 directorial debut, The Major and the Minor) are the better known of the new batch, explains Andy Klein, who offers descriptions of the less familiar motion pictures.
• • Though a few of the dates and facts are incorrect, the article "Cinderella Stories" by Andy Klein is a nice heads up on this "what-took-them-so-long?" batch of newly released screen gems.
• • Published in: Los Angeles City Beat — — www.lacitybeat.com• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Gossip columnist Liz Smith grabbed her jaded readers' attention by quoting MAE WEST when she opened a recent installment with this headline: "Lost reputations? Some stars are trying to recover theirs."
• • Before turning the topic to pooped pop-tart Britney Spears, former porn queen Traci Lords, Bronx native Jennifer Lopez, Julia Roberts, Paris Hilton, and others, la Liz led off on her left foot with a sour note.
• • Liz Smith wrote: I LOST my reputation young, but never missed it," said Mae West, the only star who never mourned lost youth, faded career, or lack of public interest.
• • Why? Because Mae didn't believe those things happened to her! (Mae was Billy Wilder's first choice for Sunset Boulevard.) She was by far the most self-assured, ego-driven actress ever to set foot on a soundstage, usually referring to herself in the third person.
• • Speaking of reputations, there is still talk going around Hollywood . . .
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• • Syndicated to newspapers by: Tribune Media Services
• • Columnist: Liz Smith
• • Published on: 10 October 2007
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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