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Despite all you think you know about MAE WEST, there’s always something new. Did you know why Mae West kept her soft youthful complexion into her later years, for instance?
• • This intimate interview with Mae West was first seen in 2009. This is Part 18 of 29 parts.
• • From the Archive: A Candid (and Entertaining) Interview with Mae West • •
• • Mae West's secret for soft skin • •
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote: “Then you’ll keep your soft skin,” Mae said. “That’s how I kept mine. I always use baby oil. Baby oil’s good for the whole body. But the secret is it has to be warm, and you have to have a man put it on you — — all over.”
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote: Mae West continued: “You aren’t wearing any make-up! Is it because I said you’d better come on time? Did you have to get ready in a hurry?”
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote: “It wasn’t because I didn’t take meeting you seriously,” I said. “It’s because I never wear any make-up.”
• • Mae West asked: “You have something to hide?” • • ...
• • This long and fascinating interview will be continued tomorrow.
• • Source: AnOther Magazine; published Autumn—Winter 2009 issue; rpt on Wednesday, 27 May 2020.
• • On Tuesday, 5 August 1913 • •
• • A review of Mae West's performance at Hammerstein's Victoria appeared in a NYC newspaper on Tuesday, 5 August 1913. The critic noted that she was appealing to the audience "by singing a repertory of 'I Don't Care' type of songs and appearing in a dazzling series of low-and-behold gowns." However, it was clear she was trying to steal the thunder from the main act, Evelyn Nesbit, and having a hard time of it.
• • Even Variety's columnist Joshua Lowe [whose critique was published on Friday, 8 August 1913] noticed how hard she was working. "Mae West sang loud enough to be distinctly heard in the rear," wrote Joshua Lowe.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Moviegoers the world over have tried to find words to describe Mae West. John Mack Brown, once a football star at Alabama, finds a vivid way of describing her by talking football language.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Jimmy Cagney is the only one in Hollywood that's got anything like my style. Animal personality. Gives them the rough stuff right out like I do."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Motion Picture mentioned Mae West.
• • Do you know what players are winning the popularity polls this year?
• • What stars are the favorites at the box-office?
• • This box-office contest is of vital importance to the stars because their popularity and value as drawing cards are truthfully revealed.
• • The ten winners this year in the order that they finished were Marie Dressier, Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor, Eddie Cantor, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Mae West, Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford. . . . .
• • Source: Motion Picture; published in their September 1934 issue• • 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 16th anniversary • •
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• Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during
these past fifteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors.
And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,500 blog posts.
Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,533rd 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 worked with an actor who kept her up-to-date on her celestial alignments.
• • "Mae West Consults Astrologer" • •
• • "What the Stars Foretell" • •
• • From Our Hollywood Correspondent — — Mae West, who will shortly be seen in "The Belle of the 'Nineties," recently had her horoscope taken. What the stars had to say about her love affairs was, naturally, of particular interest. It appears that Miss West can look forward to arriving at marriage and at the climax of her professional career just about the same time.
• • Despite the phenomenal success that Mae West has been enjoying during the past two years, she will not attain the apex of her screen career for at least three years more, that is to say, she will not reach her highest point until 1938, and she'll be married then. So, at least, the stars foretell.
• • These prophecies and a host of other interesting predictions were furnished to Miss West by Stuart Holmes [1884 — 1971], who has been a motion-picture actor for 24 years and a professional astrologer for the past six.
• • Stuart Holmes, who plays a major role in Miss West's new starring picture, "Belle of the 'Nineties," which brings Miss West back to the screen as the love of the gay blades along the levees in the "Naughty 'Nineties," compiled Miss West's horoscope with the aid of his wife, Bianka Holmes.
• • "Leo, the sign of kings, represented by the sun, is your sign," explained Holmes. . . .
• • "Mae West Consults Astrologer" will be continued (at some later date).
• • Source: Article in The Australian Women's Weekly; published on Saturday, 26 January 1935.
• • On Tuesday, 7 August 1934 in Variety • •
• • According to Daily Variety, "Belle of the Nineties" was given the purity seal on Monday, 6 August 1934. Variety announced this on the front cover of their issue dated for Tuesday, 7 August 1934.
• • Correspondence from Hammell to Joe Breen dated for Tuesday, 7 August 1934, however, listed half-a-dozen script revisions that would be made. These modifications were meant to scrub away any implied immorality from the Ruby Carter character or the Tiger Kid.
• • On Monday, 7 August 1995 • •
• • The William Morris Agency too credit for Mae's career. "They Made Mae West a Star" was the title of the article that ran in U.S. News and World Report on Monday, 7 August 1995.
• • On Thursday, 7 August 1997 • •
• • A book review of "Becoming Mae West" by biographer Emily Wortis Leider, an article entitled "A Hollywood Legend Who Wasn't Always What She Seemed," was written by Maria Braden for Knight-Ridder Newspapers. They published it on Thursday, 7 August 1997.
• • Save the Dates: 3 Mondays in August 2015 • •
• • Onstage Outlaws — — Mae West and Texas Guinan during the Lawless Prohibition Era • •
• • 3 events commemorate the Brooklyn bombshell’s August birthday in the room where she faced a judge who sent her to jail • •
• • New York's
Annual Mae West Tribute: to celebrate the birthday of Brooklyn bombshell
Mae West, on August 3rd and on August 10th, her films will be shown at
6:00pm. The first one, "Sextette" [1978] was screened on August 3rd. "Go West Young Man"
[1936] will be screened next week on August 10th. The August 17th multi-media
presentation will feature light refreshments (courtesy of East Village
Cheese) and a raffle. You could win rare films starring Texas Guinan. Or
maybe a rare reprint by The New Yorker’s caricaturist Alfred Freuh or by a famous N. Y. Times illustrator.
• • Refreshment sponsor: East Village Cheese
• • Here's the NYPL link — http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2015/08/17/onstage-outlaws-mae-west-and-texas-guinan-during-lawless-prohibition-era
• • Here's a fascinating article on speakeasy queen Texas Guinan written by syndicated columnist Lenore Skenazy — New York's Night Club Queen Was as Big as Texas
• • Here's an interview with Mae-maven LindaAnn Loschiavo — A Conversation with NYC Playwright LindaAnn Loschiavo
A Conversation with NYC Playwright LindaAnn Loschiavo
• • The weekly events magazine Time Out New York recommended this event:
Time Out New York recommends "Onstage Outlaws Mae West and Texas Guinan"
• • Details — — Mae West Tribute: Triple Treat in 2015
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • With help from Mae West, the actor Fuzzy Knight got his first notable film role in the 1933 motion picture "She Done Him Wrong."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I'll stick to the movie game for some time. But I hope to be able to find time to do another play."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The New Movie Magazine mentioned Mae West.
• • Columnist "Nemo" wrote: And among the ten handsomest males I note my old favorite, the actor James Cagney [17 July 1899 — 30 March 1986]. I never realized that Jimmy Cagney was so beautiful. Even Mae West, who told me she considered him to be the most desirable of Hollywood males, chose him not for beauty but for the old animal in him. I suppose that eventually a freckle-remover will make Jimmy perfect. ...
• • Source: "Nemo's Hollywood" — — Nemo, the mysterious reporter nobody knows, brings you the latest news from the cinema capital printed in The New Movie Magazine; published in March 1935
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 11th anniversary • •
• • Thank
you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these
past eleven years. The other day we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a
milestone recently when we completed 3,200 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started ten years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3240th 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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• • Photo: • • Mae West • • in 1935 • •
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In 1935, MAE WEST continued to avoid questions about her marriage to Frank Wallace, creating a tangled web of her own making. It got messy.
• • "Inside Hollywood" written by Ellen Grant • •
• • At first Mae West was amused, then she became a little irritated — — and when this was written she was pretty much on the warpath about her supposed past marriage.
• • Quoth Mae to me: "Last year they had me married to Jim Timony, my manager, this year they have me married to several guys named Wallace — — I suppose next year they'll have me arrested for bigamy!'' Which sort of sums up her attitude on the subject.
• • Source: Item in Photoplay Magazine; published in the issue dated for July 1935.
• • On Saturday, 1 July 1933 • •
• • A Mickey Mouse cartoon, "Mickey's Gala Premiere," was released on Saturday, 1 July 1933. Mae West is one of the celebrities who makes an appearance.
• • On Sunday, 1 July 1934 • •
• • Supposedly, on Sunday, 1 July 1934, the censorship of the Production Code began to be seriously and meticulously enforced. Mae West suddenly found her screenplays heavily edited.
• • On Tuesday, 1 July 2003 • •
• • It was on 1 July 2003 that Camille Paglia's fascinating article was published in Interview Magazine. Her title was "Where's Mae West When We Need Her?" and Paglia discussed why movies must restore the "H" factor — — the humor and the humanness.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The Edgewater Beach may cancel its annual fireworks display, July 4, and leave everything up to Mae West, who opens in "Sextette," at the hotel's Playhouse the same night! It figures.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "If I was a drinking girl, you might figure I had up and married this guy in an off moment and forgotten about it. But I don't drink."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A fan magazine mentioned Mae West.
• • "Goin' to Town" — Paramount — Mae West, pursuing the man instead of being pursued, in a fast-moving, wise-cracking film, that will keep you laughing. (May)
• • Source: Item in Photoplay Magazine; published in the issue dated for July 1935
• • Note: In case you assumed that script was solely meant for Mae West, think again.
• • In her syndicated column, Motion Picture Editor Louelle O. Parsons wrote this in 1933: Gene Markey and Kathryn Scola have written an original for Jimmy Cagney called "Goin' to Town" and, although Jimmy plays a race track Jockey, he tries no rough tactics. In fact, he breaks into society and becomes the idol of the Four Hundred. "Goin' to Town" follows "The Heir Chaser" and it's one to a million he will have Joan Blondell with him on account of popular demand.
• • Source: Item from a syndicated gossip column rpt on page 6 of Reading Times (Reading, Pennsylvania); published on Saturday, 2 December 1933
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 11th anniversary • •
• • Thank
you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these
past eleven years. The other day we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a
milestone recently when we completed 3,200 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started ten years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3212th 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/
________
Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Mae West
• • Photo: • • Mae West • • in 1935 • •
• • Feed — — http://feeds2.feedburner.com/MaeWest
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