Mae West: Dorothy Dandridge

MAE WEST shares a permanent tribute in Hollywood with Dorothy Dandridge.
• • Dorothy Dandridge [1922 — 1965] • •
• • Born in Cleveland, Ohio in November — — on 9 November 1922 — — beautiful Dorothy Jean Dandridge made a name for herself first as a child performer who toured on the so-called "chitlin' circuit" with her sister, and later as an actress and a vocalist. When the girls got older, their act "The Dandridge Sisters" were booked at the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theatre in Manhattan.
• • When she was 32 years old, Miss Dandridge became the first African-American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for the title role in "Carmen Jones" (a movie based on the successful Broadway musical of 1943); the film version was released in October 1954. For the musical numbers, Dandridge's voice was dubbed by Marilyn Horne, a trained opera singer. [In 1954, Grace Kelly won the Oscar for Best Actress.]
• • Unfortunately, the motion pictures Dandridge had been cast in were not always box office hits. By the end of 1961, job offers were scarce. Other disappointments and hardships were a divorce in 1962; a serious swindle by her management team that forced her into debt for back taxes; and the institutionalization of her only child, a daughter Harolyn Suzanne Nicholas, who was born in 1943 brain-damaged. Alone in West Hollywood and down on her luck, supposedly Dorothy Dandridge had a breakdown.
• • Earl Mills started orchestrating her comeback and booked her in a prestigious place, Basin Street East in midtown Manhattan. But before she could get on a plane to NYC, Dorothy Dandridge died in West Hollywood of an overdose on 8 September 1965. She was only 42 years old.
• • She has received recognition on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1994, the Walk of Fame was extended one block to the west on Hollywood Boulevard, from Sycamore Avenue to North LaBrea Avenue (plus the short segment of Marshfield Way that connects Hollywood and La Brea) — — where it now ends at the silver "Four Ladies of Hollywood" gazebo. Dorothy Dandridge was selected to be the African-American figure.
• • • The Four Ladies of Hollywood Gazebo • • •
• • The "gateway" to Hollywood Boulevard at LaBrea features a 30-ft. high stainless steel gazebo designed by movie industry production designer, Catherine Hardwicke.
• • Four Ladies, Four Races: Caucasian, Latino, Asian, Black: Four actresses elegantly adorn this shiny steel gateway: Mae West, Dolores del Rio, Anna May Wong, and Dorothy Dandridge.
• • Anyone who looks closely will see, at the tippy top of the gazebo, above the neon Hollywood sign, a likeness of Marilyn Monroe.
• • In November, Let's Remember Ed Wynn [1886 — 1966] • •
• • In October 1918, when she was 26 years old, Mae West was in the cast of a Broadway show, and she learned a lot because she was a careful observer.
• • While playing opposite the seasoned 32-year-old cut-up in Arthur Hammerstein's Broadway hit "Sometime" (with a music score by Rudolf Friml), Mae came to the realization that she was throwing away her lines. Studying the crafty comic timing of Ed Wynn, said Mae West, and watching how he made sure he caught the audience's attention before delivering a line, was the best lesson. Her character in this production was Mayme Dean, his was Loney Bright.
• • Born in Philadelphia during the month of November — — on 9 November 1886 — — Ed Wynn [1886 — 1966] was a popular American comedian and actor noted for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor. Wynn became a headliner in vaudeville in the early-1910s, and was a star of the Ziegfeld Follies starting in 1914. Today we pay tribute to a legend on his birthday.
• • Is that a gun in your pocket? • •
• • West Coast film critic Kevin Thomas writes: Once when Owney Madden wanted to visit Los Angeles, Mae West cleared the way with a word with another of her great friends, then-Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts. It was Buron Fitts, by the way, who indirectly inspired one of West's most quoted lines. Too busy to meet her at the railroad station, Fitts sent over the handsomest deputy he could find, ordering him to give her a big kiss, saying "This is from Buron" — — to which West replied: "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?" [Source: "Remember Her Sometime" by Kevin Thomas for The L.A. Times; printed on 8 August 1993]
• • On 9 November 1920 • •
• • When her divorce from Guido Deiro became final on 9 November 1920, Mae West quietly decided that she would never walk down the aisle again.
• • In November 1997 • •
• • Washington, DC based reporter Glen Elsasser wrote an article "Mae West's Powerful Image Lives On, 60 Years After Her Heyday" during the month of November for the Chicago Tribune in 1997.
• • Glen Elsasser began his affectionate newspaper piece with this sentence: Her quips, backed by the full-figured image, somehow manage to survive our throwaway culture. ...
• • "Part of her appeal is she's funny," said Emily Wortis Leider, her latest biographer. Leider's new book, "Becoming Mae West" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), chronicles the formative and little-known years of the actress' early life. ...
• • "Becoming Mae West" by Emily Wortis Leider belongs on your bookshelf.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • In 1934, Mae West said: "If young girls knew more about love — — and didn't take it so seriously — — it would be better for them."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article about luxurious hotels in Mazatlan, Mexico mentioned Mae West.
• • Bob Schulman writes: A lot less preserved (to put it kindly) but in the process of being restored is the nearby Belmar, the grandest of Mazatlan's hotels. Opened in 1920, her then-opulent guest rooms, lush gardens and elegant ballrooms were filled with Hollywood superstars like John Barrymore, Rudolph Valentino, and Mae West and, a little later on, John Wayne, Tyrone Power, Rock Hudson and Gregory Peck. ...
• • Source: Article: "Gold, Booze And Tourists: Mazatlan's Plazuela Machado" written by Bob Schulman for The Huff Post; posted on 8 November 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2109th 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: July 6th

To those who share a MAE WEST mindset, memories tied to the sixth of July will be overshadowed by the passing of two men she admired, gifted black musicians who died of heart attacks on that day.
• • Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Louis Armstrong [4 August 1901 — 6 July 1971] was a versatile and innovative singer and jazz trumpeter nicknamed Satchmo. At the age of 69, Louis Armstrong died shortly after a heart attack in New York City.
• • It was during the Prohibition Era, at Owney Madden's Cotton Club in Harlem that Mae West first encountered this talented musician, then in his twenties.
• • Since the New Orleans native impressed Mae, she asked him to participate in "Every Day's a Holiday" [1937].
• • The movie's musical numbers include "Jubilee" (written by Stanley Adams and Hoagy Carmichael and sung by Louis Armstrong). Seen very briefly as a street cleaner, Louis Armstrong introduces the song "Jubilee" while parading down the street along with other street sweepers during an election rally.
• • Currently, the house where Louis Armstrong lived for close to 28 years (declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977) is a museum. The Louis Armstrong House Museum — — at 34-56 107th Street (between 34th and 37th Avenues) in Corona, Queens, New York — — presents concerts and educational programs, operates as a historic house museum, and makes its archival materials and memorabilia available to the public for research. The museum is operated by the City University of New York's Queens College, following the dictates of Lucille Armstrong's will.
• • Born in Washington, DC, Van McCoy [6 January 1940 — 6 July 1979] was an accomplished musician, music producer as well as an arranger, orchestra conductor, and lyricist. He is best known for his massive 1975 international hit "The Hustle" — — a tune still played on dance floors and radio today nearly 30 years after his death. He has around 700 song copyrights to his credit. At the age of 39, Van McCoy was in Englewood, New Jersey when he was forever silenced by a fatal heart attack.
• • Better known for doing The Shimmy than hustling on the dance floor, Mae West, who starred and wrote the screenplay for "Sextette," had asked Van McCoy to write the theme song, and to make a cameo appearance in her motion picture.
• • "Sextette" was released on 3 March 1978.
• • Two mournful coincidences, two broken hearts on July 6th.
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Mae West: "Mad" Man

MAE WEST had a talent for hooking up with top gangsters, mad, bad, and indispensable to know.
• • "So sweet and so vicious," was Mae's character rating for Owney "The Killer" Madden, whose birthday is today.
• • Mae West acknowledged meeting Madden when she moved into the Harding Hotel at 205 West 54th Street. Owney Madden provided the financing for several of Texas Guinan's speakeasies — — and Guinan's Club Abbey operated from the basement of the Harding Hotel during Mae's residency. Texas Guinan employed a tap dancer, George Ranft [stage name George Raft], who was also Madden's bagman.
• • When Owney Madden financed Mae West's Broadway show "Sex," George made nightly visits to pick up the gangster's share of the box-office profits. Soon George and Mae became lovers, a mutually beneficial relationship.
• • Owen "Owney" Madden [born 18 December 1891 in England] grew up in midtown Manhattan's gang-ridden westside. In the early 1900s, his family moved to 352 Tenth Avenue, off the corner of West 30th Street. Mary Madden and her three youngsters had moved in with her sister-in-law Elizabeth O'Neil; both widows were raising children while trying to support a husband-less household. Young Owney soon joined the Gopher Gang and became a one person crime wave.
• • During the Prohibition Era, Madden owned the popular Cotton Club in Harlem. When Francis Ford Coppola made "The Cotton Club," he chose Bob Hoskins to portray Madden.
• • On 24 April 1965, Owney Madden, 75, died in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
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Mae West: Stanley Walker

Newsman Stanley Walker came up to see MAE WEST on many occasions. He saw her productions onstage, and he sat at her elbow several times backstage and at the night spots she frequented.
• • As a writer for the old New York Herald Tribune in the 1920s and 1930s, Stanley Walker chronicled the city in words the way Weegee did with a Graflex.
• • Published in November 1935 to great acclaim, The Night Club Era is Walker's portrait of the wicked city during Prohibition — — and how the banning of liquor gave rise to a new social setting in which, legal or not, booze flowed uninhibited and gangsters rubbed shoulders with socialites and legitimate businessmen, all unified with the single intent of having a high time with a highball.
• • Written in the aftermath of Prohibition, Stanley Walker's bestseller The Night Club Era is a lively and idiosyncratic account of the people and places that defined New York's night life during the era of "the great American madness."
• • Walker includes coverage of the leading headline-makers and shakers such as the darling of Broadway Mae West, queen of bubbly Texas Guinan, along with the most infamous murderers and millionaires, gangsters, bartenders, celebrities of the stage, screen, and society, and a host of other colorful characters who populated the city's diverse night clubs, from El Fey to the Cotton Club.
• • Mae West was a repeater attender at the Cotton Club (a Harlem hotspot owned by her lover Owney Madden) and at the El Fey, the temporary headquarters of her frequently padlocked pal, the hostess Texas Guinan (a business partner of Larry Fay).
• • Stanley Walker was born in Texas on 21 October 1898.
• • After learning that he had a fatal illness, Stanley Walker met with a few of his old friends at the Driskill Hotel in Austin and told them he was dying. The 64-year-old writer committed suicide at his Lampasas, Texas ranch on 25 November 1962.
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Mae West: Men in Her Life

MAE WEST used to say: "It's not the men in my life — — it's the life in my men."
• • But who were the men in the actress's private life, for instance, during the Prohibition Era — — before she went out to Hollywood?
• • Crime boss Owney Madden was one lover. The owner of The Cotton Club backed Mae's Broadway shows, attended some of her séances, and also escorted her to her mother's funeral.
• • Handsome George Raft, a former boxer who danced at Texas Guinan's speakeasies, ran errands for Owney — — such as retrieving his box office cut every evening after "Sex" and "Diamond Lil." Raft handled more than cash inside Mae's dressing room, where the dapper New Yorker staged a steamy (private) performance of his own on Broadway.
• • Lawyer James Timony became Mae's manager, muscle, and sometime lover. Though Mae declined his offer of marriage, the two kept their professional partnership intact until he died of a heart attack.
• • Good-looking Jack LaRue [1902—1984], who appeared in "Diamond Lil," had an affair with Mae and remained her intimate friend for life.
• • One of the actors in "Sex" stole Mae's heart. "She found him enchanting; he sent her flowers," wrote biographer Jill Watts. "But her interest waned after she learned that he had been married and fathered a child, was divorced, and was also bisexual. West insisted that this experience compelled her to study differing psychological interpretations of homosexuality." This bewildering amour was another reason that inspired Mae West to write "The Drag."
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Mae West: Old Flame

MAE WEST had to fight with Paramount Pictures to get the musician Duke Ellington into her film "Belle of the Nineties."
• • Always the champion of the African-American talents she met, Mae insisted that the studio hire him to play and also appear in the movie. The studio didn't want to hire Ellington, at first, because they said the famed Cotton Club headliner would be "too expensive." When Paramount finally gave in to Mae, they agreed to let Ellington and his orchestra play — — however, they insisting on having all white musicians on the set.
• • Mae West marched into the head office at Paramount and said, "White men can't play black music in my picture!" And it was done. Ellington and his band were used and shown onscreen, thanks to Mae (who refused to budge on this).
• • Hollywood's censors did have the final say, though; they refused to let Mae appear next to the musicians in the same scene.
• • "Belle of the Nineties" was in production from 19 March 1934 until June 1934.
• • Backed by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, Mae West performed "My Old Flame" [written by Arthhur Johnston and Sam Coslow] — — as entertainer Ruby Carter. Covered by the screen queen in 1934, the song was brought back to popularity almost 30 years later by The Ray Charles Singers in 1961. Ella Fitzgerald covered it with Joe Pass in 1976; Linda Ronstadt revived it in 1984.
• • During the 1920s, Mae West met Duke Ellington at Owney Madden's speakeasy. An autographed photo of Mae given to the "Duke" was among his most cherished possessions.
• • Born in Washington, D.C. on 29 April 1899, Duke Ellington died in May — — 24 May 1974.
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Mae West: Terrible Thirties

Book reviewer Tom Mackin mentioned MAE WEST in his short critique of "Dream Lucky: When FDR Was in the White House, Count Basie Was on the Radio, and Everyone Wore a Hat" [NY: HarperCollins, 2008].
• • Tom Mackin wrote: Hoboken resident Roxane Orgill has done her homework for "Dream Lucky: When FDR Was in the White House, Count Basie Was on the Radio, and Everyone Wore a Hat." This thin volume is packed with information on the Terrible Thirties, some of it about the scabrous treatment of black entertainers of the era.
• • Tom Mackin added: But she seems less interested in a sobering treatise on Jim Crow than in short riffs about the famous personalities of the time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Fibber McGee and Molly, the Lone Ranger and Tonto, Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, Mae West, Benny Goodman, Amelia Earhart. The result is a tired digest of overly familiar history. Surely there is much more to tell about the black singer Billie Holiday, who had to darken her fair skin to sing with a black band; about Harlem's famed Cotton Club, where only whites were served; and about Count Basie, the renowned Red Bank pianist and bandleader, who could not read music.
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• • Book Review: "In Brief"
• • Written by: Tom Mackin for New Jersey's Star-Ledger
• • Published in: The Star-Ledger — — www.nj.com
• • Published on: 11 May 2008
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Mae West: April Shows

In April 1954 and April 1956, Mae West returned to Manhattan to perform at the Latin Quarter.
• • Impresario Lou Walters [1896 —1977] had produced shows for The Ziegfeld Follies, and wanted a regular "French style" cabaret of his own.
• • On 1 April 1942, Lou Walters opened The Latin Quarter [at 200 West 48th Street, New York — zipcode 10036]. It was housed in the two-story structure where The Cotton Club had been [September 1936 — April 1940].
• • In his on-going column "Tips on Tables" night-life reporter Robert W. Dana reviewed "The Mae West Revue"; his critique appeared in the newspaper on 30 April 1956. Here is an excerpt from Dana's coverage.
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• • The old belief that everything should be bigger and better, a thought most forcefully pronounced by Hollywood trailers, can be applied with forthright honesty to Mae West, who has returned to the Latin Quarter, where she scored heavily in the fall [sic] of 1954.
• • Instead of changing her act, Miss West embellished it. Most noteworthy, I think, is the addition of some song-and-dance men whose soft-shoe capers and grace provide a fair contrast to the muscle boys who are the background for her boudoir comedy. They rock and they roll and Miss West demonstrates that her vocal chords are as roving as her come- hither eyes.
• • . . . Packaged in regal white robes, [the bodybuilders] march first toward the audience then turn to Miss West and throw back their robes. Her expression of approval regales the customers. One of the muscle specimens is Mickey Hargitay, Mr. Universe. ...
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Mae West: Merchant of Menace

MAE WEST was not unfamiliar with menace. One of her former lovers, a money machine who could afford to finance all of her extravagant Broadway productions, was Owen Vincent Madden. On Friday evening 17 August 2007, a walking tour "Mae West Side Story" will take participants to several locations where the gangster rendezvoused with the Broadway actress — — including the place where Mae said they met.
• • British news man Graham Nown wrote a book about Owney, The English Godfather [London: Ward Lock Ltd., 1987] exactly twenty years ago. The dustjacket pictures a youthful-looking mobster and the marquee of the legendary Cotton Club in Harlem.
• • "Have you ever heard of this top Yankee gangster who was raised in Wigan?" asks Geoffrey Shryhane of his UK readers in the publication Wigan Today. Explaining further, Shryhane says, "Owney (The Killer) Madden was born in Leeds in 1891 and became America's most dangerous public enemy, an influential godfather of organized crime.
• • Enormously proud of himself for reading a book printed two decades ago, Geoffrey Shryhane goes on . . . and on. According to Shryhane:
. . . I've just read a fascinating account of Owney (real name Owen) Madden's life by the late local journalist Graham Nown. I can recommend it. Seems that the Madden family came to live in Wigan when he was a lad. Thick yellow smoke enveloped the town and clogs clattered on the cobblestones at dawn.
. . . Owney, who listed Mae West among his friends, remembered the Wigan schoolmaster's polished cane ready to swoop as pupils chanted edifying maxims such as "Discipline is the backbone of the British Empire."
. . . After school he tended his dad's pigeons ... and throughout his life as gangster, he retained a love of his feathered-friends.
. . . Later, the family moved to New York — — a Hell's Kitchen where the young Owney was drawn into a life of petty crime and gang violence.
. . . The English Godfather rose to criminal fame during the dry years of prohibition, when he ran chains of speakeasies, selling bootleg beer, and smuggling alcohol. ...
• • If you have not gotten around to The English Godfather yet, consult this UK-based site.
• • Source: Wigan Today — — http://www.wigantoday.net/
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Mae West: Louis Armstrong

At Owney Madden's Cotton Club, MAE WEST met a talented musician: Louis Armstrong.
• • Armstrong comes to mind in the month of July because that's when he suffered a fatal heart attack in New York, NY and died, nearly 70 years old, on 6 July 1971.
• • The New Orleans native impressed Mae and she asked him to participate in "Every Day's a Holiday."
• • The movie's musical numbers include "Jubilee" (written by Stanley Adams and Hoagy Carmichael and sung by Louis Armstrong). Seen very briefly as a street cleaner, Louis Armstrong introduces the song "Jubilee" while parading down the street along with other street sweepers during an election rally.
• • Even Mae West weighs in during this catchy tune by playing the drums, a talent taught to her by her Brooklyn boyfriend Joe Schenck.
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Mae West: Duke Ellington

On the birthday of Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington - - born 29 April 1899 in Washington, D.C. - - it's interesting to recall how hard MAE WEST had to fight with Paramount Pictures to get the musician into her film "Belle of the Nineties."
• • Always the champion of the African-American talents she met, Mae insisted that the studio hire him to play and also appear in the movie. The studio didn't want to hire Ellington, at first, because they said the famed Cotton Club headliner would be "too expensive." When Paramount finally gave in to Mae, they agreed to let Ellington and his orchestra play - - however, they insisting on having all white musicians on the set.
• • Mae West marched into the head office at Paramount and said, "White men can't play black music in my picture!" And it was done. Ellington and his band were used and shown onscreen, thanks to Mae (who refused to budge on this).
• • Hollywood's censors did have the final say, though; they refused to let Mae appear next to the musicians in the same scene.
• • "Belle of the Nineties" was in production from 19 March 1934 until June 1934.
• • During the 1920s, Mae West met Duke Ellington at Owney Madden's speakeasy. An autographed photo of Mae given to the "Duke" was among his most cherished possessions.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: "Killer" Madden

MAE WEST had a talent for hooking up with the right gangsters.
• • "So sweet and so vicious," was Mae's character rating for Owney "The Killer" Madden, who died during the month of April.
• • Mae West acknowledged meeting Madden when she moved into the Harding Hotel at 205 West 54th Street. Owney Madden provided the financing for several of Texas Guinan's speakeasies - - and Guinan's Club Abbey operated from the basement of the Harding Hotel during Mae's residency. Texas Guinan employed a tap dancer, George Ranft [stage name George Raft], who was also Madden's bagman.
• • When Owney Madden financed Mae West's Broadway show "Sex," George made nightly visits to pick up the gangster's share of the box-office profits. Soon George and Mae became lovers, a mutually beneficial relationship.
• • Owen "Owney" Madden [born 18 December 1891 in England] grew up in midtown Manhattan's gang-ridden westside. In the early 1900s, his family moved to 352 Tenth Avenue, off the corner of West 30th Street. Mary Madden and her three youngsters had moved in with her sister-in-law Elizabeth O'Neil; both widows were raising children while trying to support a husband-less household. Young Owney soon joined the Gopher Gang and became a one person crime wave.
• • During the Prohibition Era, Madden owned the popular Cotton Club in Harlem. When Francis Ford Coppola made "The Cotton Club," he chose Bob Hoskins to portray Madden.
• • On 24 April 1965, Owney Madden, 75, died in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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