Mae West: Mae West Fest

Fess up: have you heard of the female-friendly theatre company named after MAE WEST?
• • Daring the unknown to come calling, the Annual Mae West Fest offers a competitive opportunity for playwrights to showcase or develop new work through play readings and feedback, as well as possible production by Mae West Fest onstage and publication in an anthology, etc.
• • Currently, the Female Protagonist Project is a new playwriting competition offered by the Mae West Fest, a non-juried festival in Seattle, WA, of plays written and directed by women.
• • The annual Female Protagonist Project Celebration occurs during February, in Seattle, WA.
• • For more details, contact the nice folks at the Mae West Fest [320 Summit Avenue E., #1; Seattle, WA 98102] or visit them online: www.maewestfest.org
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: NBC Radio - Feb. 1950

MAE WEST was invited to guest-star a few times with Perry Como on his popular NBC radio show.
• • On 16 February 1950 Mae was heard coast-to-coast with the Italian-American barber turned crooner on his "Chesterfield Supper Club."
• • Newsweek and other publications gave the details of Mae's splendid diamond lavaliere and tourniquet-tight white spangled evening gown.
• • Last week, noted Newsweek, Mae West "sidled onto the stage of NBC's studio 8-H in Radio City . . . this time, in a script with all possible blue bleached out."
• • In a playful spin on Shakespeare, Perry played "Comeo" and Mae was "Juliet."
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Breen Screen

On 10 February 1936 - - after a tsunami of objections and windy correspondence with MAE WEST and Paramount Pictures - - movie censor Joe Breen agreed to the release of "Klondike Annie."
• • Ramona Curry analyzed the set-to in her article "Mae West as Censored Commodity: The Case of "Klondike Annie":
• • "The controversy began immediately upon Hollywood previews of the film in early February, when [Joe] Breen learned that Paramount was exhibiting a print containing material that had been deleted from the version of the film approved by the PCA. Breen immediately rescinded the Code seal and entered into into further negotiations with the studio which resulted in the elimination of 'love talk' and other implications of an 'illicit love affair,' before he agreed on 10 February 1936 to the film's release. "Klondike Annie" opened five days later in a special public preview in Miami and was released nationwide the following week. ..."
• • Source: Ramona Curry, "Mae West as Censored Commodity: The Case of "Klondike Annie," Cinema Journal 31, No.1, Fall 1991, Pg. 57-85.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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• • Movie poster • • Mae West • • 1936 • •
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