Mae West: Private Table

MAE WEST was given a role so colorless in “Night after Night,” that she almost turned it down. After being permitted to rewrite her scenes, she wound up being the only thing worth watching. This is Part 2 of 2 segments.
• • Review by A.M.B. of "Night After Night" — Paramount • •
• • Miss West swaggers her generous hips to harbor • •
• • A.M.B. wrote: And then Miss Constance Cummings, silent lady who sits and waits, arrives on the scene. It's love and Mr. Raft attempts to show her, that natural roughneck that he is, that his savoir faire is at least, perfect. 
• • A.M.B. wrote: One of the most laughable incidents in the picture is the sight of Mr. Raft at a dinner table with Miss Cummings on one side of him, and Miss Alison Skipworth on the other, attempting to be the perfect gentleman. And, merely to see, Miss West swagger her generous hips to harbor at Mr. Raft's private table is enough to recommend the picture.
• • A.M.B. wrote: Without a doubt, Miss West's command of the vernacular and her excellent portrayal in this story by Louis Bromfield will bring her juicier parts. We certainly would like to see more and more of her. 
• • Source: Reviewed for Columbia Daily Spectator; published on Monday, 31 October 1932.
• • On Tuesday, 4 June 1935 • •

• • Mae West was the cover girl for the French publication Midinette Journal Illustrate. Issue # 425 was dated for Tuesday, 4 June 1935. Oooh-la-la.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • How can I leave myself out of my own Hollywood memoir when I am surrounded by blondes in a nudist camp? Or talking to Mae West about her cast iron underwear?
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “I’ve been in more laps than a napkin.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The United Press mentioned Mae West.
• • The United Press columnist wrote: “It's tough, being Mae West," she complained during the filming of the picture. "I can’t say the things that other actresses say. When they say 'em, they’re funny; when I say 'em, I'm vulgar. People seem to read double-meaning into every word I speak."  . . .
• • Source: Item in a syndicated U.P. column; published on Wednesday, 22 December 1937
• • 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 3,900 blog posts. Wow!  

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started thirteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3973rd 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: Impudent

So many authors attached their musings to pondering the career and personality of the iconic MAE WEST.
• • This early August date — — 3 August 1954 — — is when Colette died. The frisky French author wrote a notable essay in 1934, assessing the impact of Mae West onscreen. Seventy-seven years ago, Colette observed: "She alone, out of an enormous and dull catalogue of heroines, does not get married at the end of the film, does not die, does not take the road to exile, does not gaze sadly at her declining youth in a silver-framed mirror …. She alone has no parents, no children, no husband. This impudent woman is, in her style, as solitary as Chaplin used to be. ..."
• • Mae West on the Newsstand • •
• • Hope you kept a copy of the Mae West theme issue of Harper’s Bazaar [August 2010].
• • Lovingly lensed by Jean-Paul Goude, model Laetitia Casta portrayed Hollywood screen queen Mae West for the August 2011 edition of Harper’s Bazaar USA. Styled by Alex Aikiu in eye-catching couture from Dior, Armani, and others, Laetitia’s portrayal is nothing short of stunning in "I’m No Angel."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Nancy Wride writes: Dabbing away a tear, outgoing Mayor Beverly O'Neill gazed out at 800 admirers in the Long Beach Convention Center ballroom. For once in 12 years she didn't quote Mae West. Hours of adoration more befitting a eulogy than a retirement had preceded O'Neill to the podium. ...
• • Source: Article: "O'Neill Era Comes to a Close: Supporters and critics praise the three-term pro-growth mayor of Long Beach, who stepped down last week after 12 years in office" written by Nancy Wride, Times Staff Writer for the L.A. Times; published on 24 July 2006
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2011th 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: Colette, Caron, Cukor

MAE WEST, Colette noted in a 1938 publication, had the confidence to create an unapologetic majority-of-one presence on the silver screen — — as self-sufficient and durable as a diamond solitaire. "She alone, out of an enormous and dull catalogue of heroines, does not get married at the end of the film, does not die, does not take the road to exile, does not gaze sadly at her declining youth in a silver-framed mirror …. She alone has no parents, no children, no husband," wrote Colette. "This impudent woman is, in her style, as solitary as Chaplin used to be."
• • Can you imagine the buxom Brooklynite translated into the character of one of the 1890s Parisian prostitutes who people "Gigi," an arch novella written in 1944 by Colette [28 January 1873 — 3 August 1954]? Ooooh-la-la!
• • Defanged by the American musical comedy team of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, who laundered and starched all the sex and naughtiness out of the original, "Gigi" became a romantic tale of mismatched parts and was chastely adapted for the screen in 1958, starring a very ladylike French native Leslie Caron [born 1 July 1931] as the ingenue tutored by the scarlet women in her family. The motion picture version premiered at the Royale Theatre — — the Broadway house where "Diamond Lil" debuted in 1928 — — in Manhattan on 15 May 1958.
• • Still active and sought after, the 78-year-old Academy-Award-nominee will soon portray Madame Armfeldt in a Paris revival of Stephen Sondheim’s "A Little Night Music," a musical about shady ladies that leaves the sex and sass intact. Moreover, Leslie Caron's memoir "Thank Heaven" will be published by Viking around Christmas.
• • Mae West and Leslie Caron • •
• • In The Examiner, Alan Petrucelli has put together a most intriguing profile that includes this morsel about Leslie Caron and Mae West.
• • Pittsburgh Stage and Screen Examiner Alan Petrucelli writes: And this story, which we’ll call The Women, Part Deux, is a hoot! One day director George Cukor “begged” Caron to make up a lunch quartet with — — are you ready? — — Mae West, Greta Garbo, and Barbra Streisand. Caron coos: “An absolutely historical luncheon, I know, but I would have felt very uncomfortable in front of these great dames. You know what happened? Streisand says, ‘Gee, Miss West, I do so admire your work,’ and West replies, ‘Sure honey, I can tell by the way you been stealin’ it…’” [from "Leslie Caron? Oui! Make no reservations about it, just thank heaven for this little/ big girl" printed on 7 September 2009; by Pittsburgh Stage and Screen Examiner Alan Petrucelli; published in: The Examiner — — www.examiner.com].
• • Hmmmm. Though that nostalgic nugget goes together like misfitted pipes amid nougat, and the imagined comeback by Mae West to Brooklyn's Barbra twangs like a nail mis-struck, it is nice to see the Empress of Sex fondly recalled by an awestruck foreign thespian who did not have lunch with her after all (and who did not do her own singing on screen either). We do hope her memoir is a real page-turner quite unlike the clutch of mud most of these celeb tell-alls have been.
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