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MAE WEST worked with numerous native Californian actors. Wade Boteler was cast as the ranch foreman in the motion picture "Goin' to Town" [1935].
• • Born in Santa Ana, California in early October, Wade Boteler [3 October 1888 — 7 May 1943] was a busy bit parts player who appeared in over 440 films between 1919 — 1943. The stern looking six-footer was often hired for detective, police inspector, and authority roles. Employed right up to the end, he died in Hollywood from a heart attack at the age of 54.
• • In October, Let's Remember Dorothy Peterson • •
• • Born in Minnesota on 25 December 1897, the pretty brunette became a stage actress. In 1930, she made her screen debut in "Mothers Cry," a weepy domestic melodrama that required the 29-year-old actress to age nearly three decades in the course of the film. Unfortunately, "Mothers Cry" instantly typecast Dorothy Peterson in the careworn maternal roles.
• • Dorothy Peterson played Thelma in the Mae West hit "I'm No Angel" [1933]. In one scene, Tira points to the photos of various suitors who gave her jewelry, then offers Thelma a necklace to cheer her up. Though her last screen appearance was as Shirley Temple's mother in "That Hagen Girl" [1947], Dorothy Peterson did remain active on the New York theatrical scene and on TV until the early 1960s.
• • She died in New York City in the month of October — — on 3 October 1979.
• • On 3 October 1925 • • 
• • Happy Birthday to the author of the novel "Myra Breckinridge," Gore Vidal, who was born in West Point, New York on 3 October 1925. He is 86 years old today.
• • Starting on 3 October 2005 • •
• • The National Film Theatre in London, England held a complete retrospective of the films of Mae West from 3 October 2005 — on.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “Love isn't an emotion or an instinct — — it's an art."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An item about a ridiculous SNL skit is based on Mae West. Can TV comedy get any lamer than this?
• • Gossip Cop writes: Melissa McCarthy plays Lulu Diamonds in a parody of 1930s tough-talking blonde bombshells like Mae West. In the sketch, on TCM’s “The Essentials with Robert Osborne,” audiences are introduced to snippets from some of her films, where three suitors repeatedly try to woo her. But every time after she utters her character’s catchphrase, ”What don’t you come upstairs, and see me up there sometime,” Lulu Diamonds (McCarthy) takes a nasty tumble down an elegant stairwell. . . .
• • Source: Article: "Melissa McCarthy Falls Down Stairs For Laughs as ‘Lulu Diamonds’ on “SNL” written by Gossip Cop; posted on 2 October 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2072nd 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 charmed The New York Times film critic Mordaunt Hall. Well satisfied by the motion picture "I'm No Angel," Hall haled it and his readers heeded. 
• • Here's what Hall wrote after the advance screening in 1933:
• • Arrayed in a variety of costumes which set off her sinuous form, Mae West is appearing at the Paramount in her latest screen vehicle, "I'm No Angel," a title which, as might be surmised, fits the leading character. Here Miss West, who wrote the story herself from "suggestions contributed" by Lowell Brentano, is beheld as a circus beauty named Tira, who wins applause and admiration by risking her blond head in a lion's mouth twice daily.
• • It is a rapid-fire entertainment, with shameless but thoroughly contagious humor, and one in which Tira is always the mistress of the situation, whether it be in the cage with wild beasts, in her boudoir with admirers, or in a court of law.
• • Tira is ever ready with a flip double entendre, and she permits no skeleton to be found behind her cupboard doors. She has an emphatic personality, which proves a magnet for even socialites with millions. She receives costly presents, including diamond necklaces, but she is hardly a gold-digger. She refrains from posing, preferring to keep her natural slangy speech in her journey through the story from a tent to a penthouse.
• • She admits that she has thrown discretion to the winds and she sometimes finds herself in an awkward predicament, but through a wily lawyer she succeeds in proving that she is guiltless. The feeble parts of this picture are those in which a criminal known as Slick is introduced. The less one sees of him the better one feels, for the production is interesting only as long as it proceeds on its merry route.
• • The glimpses of Tira making her impressive entry to the circus arena and then proceeding to the big cage with the roaring lions are depicted shrewdly. Tira does not actually stick her whole head in the lion's mouth, but contents herself by putting her face between the beast's jaws, which is quite enough. Even this is set forth with a certain degree of fun, and one feels that Tira probably has a pistol ready for an emergency and that other circus employee are ready to shoot in the event that the beast starts to close its mouth. But one is apt to wonder whether they could possibly be quick enough. Society among the spectators is thrilled, all except one snobbish girl, who is furious because her fiancé is very enthusiastic over the performer's courage — — and her beauty.
• • Later there comes the time when Tira puts her fair head into a court of law as the plaintiff in a breach-of-promise case. She sues Jack Clayton, whom she really loves, for $1,000,000, and it is not Tira's artful counsel who wins the case, but the circus queen herself. She cross-examines the defendant's witnesses and turns their testimony in her own favor, the unusual proceeding being countenanced by a judge whose sympathy Tira wins with the utmost ease.
• • Miss West plays her part with the same brightness and naturalness that attended her second film role. There is no lack of spontaneity in her actions nor in the utterance of her lines. She is a remarkable wit — — after her fashion. Cary Grant is pleasing as Jack Clayton and Walter Walker is excellent as the considerate old judge. Gregory Ratoff does well as Tira's lawyer. Wesley Ruggles has directed the film with his usual intelligence.
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• • Byline: Mordaunt Hall
• • Published by: The New York Times
• • Published on: 13 October 1933
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • Cast for "I'm No Angel" • • • •
• • Tira . . . Mae West
• • Jack Clayton . . . Cary Grant
• • Bill Barton . . . Edward Arnold
• • Slick . . . Ralf Harolde
• • Barker . . . Russel Hopton
• • Alicia Hatton . . . Gertrude Michael
• • Kirk . . . Kent Taylor
• • Thelma . . . Dorothy Peterson
• • Benny Pinkowitz . . . Gregory Ratoff
• • Beulah . . . Gertrude Howard
• • The Chump . . . William B. Davidson
• • Bob, the Attorney . . . Irving Pichel• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • On Friday February 6th, a sparkling new print of "I'm No Angel" will open the 1930s series "Breadlines and Champagne," which will run from Friday February 6th through March 5, 2009 at the Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street, New York, NY 10014. Info and screentimes are available by phoning 212-727-8110 — — or by visiting www.filmforum.org online.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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New Yorkers in the know are getting in the mood to spend February 6th with MAE WEST. 
• • If you have seen "I'm No Angel" before, then you might remember the title song, which Mae warbles in her inimitable cheeky way.
• • Harvey Brooks wrote the music for the theme song and the lyrics were written by Gladys DuBois and Ben Ellison.
• • Born in Philadelphia in the month of February — — 15 February 1899 — — Harvey Brooks also wrote the music for several other Mae West numbers. Composer Harvey Brooks died in Los Angeles on 17 June 1968.
• • Here are the lyrics so you can sing along with Mae on Friday.
• • • • "I'm No Angel" • • • •Aw, come on, let me cling on to ya like a vine
Make that lowdown music trickle off your spine
Baby, I can warm ya with this love of mine
I'm no angel
Aw, let me feel your fingers runnin' through my hair
I can give you kisses till you walk on air
Love me, honey, love me till I just don't care
I'm no angel
I'll take your blues, stomp down your troubles
Rock you with a steady roll
Here's your good nation, drink my affection
You're my new ace in the hole
Aw, let me have ya now before the night is gone
Come on, flank this joint, so we can carry on
I can make it heaven where the shades are drawn
I'm no angel
(— Instrumental Break —)
Come on, honey, thrill me like a midnight breeze
Don't care how you do it, babe, just so you please
Take my kisses till your weary heart's at ease
I'm no angel
Let me feel your fingers runnin' through my hair
I can give you kisses till you walk on air
Love me, honey, love me till I just don't care
I'm no angel
Oh, I'll take your blues, stomp down your troubles
Rock you with a steady roll
Here's your innovation, drink my affection
You're my new ace in the hole
Aw, let me have ya now before the night is gone
Come on, flank this joint, so we can carry on
I can make it heaven where the shades are drawn
I'm no angel
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • Cast for "I'm No Angel" • • • •
• • Tira . . . Mae West
• • Jack Clayton . . . Cary Grant
• • Bill Barton . . . Edward Arnold
• • Slick . . . Ralf Harolde
• • Barker . . . Russel Hopton
• • Alicia Hatton . . . Gertrude Michael
• • Kirk . . . Kent Taylor
• • Thelma . . . Dorothy Peterson
• • Benny Pinkowitz . . . Gregory Ratoff
• • Beulah . . . Gertrude Howard
• • The Chump . . . William B. Davidson
• • Bob, the Attorney . . . Irving Pichel• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • "I'm No Angel" is being shown as part of the 1930s series "Breadlines and Champagne," which will run from Friday February 6th through March 5 at the Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street, New York, NY 10014. Info and screentimes are available by phoning 212-727-8110 — — or by visiting www.filmforum.org online.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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