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The Pre-Code MAE WEST is the best. 
• • if you still have not seen the classic “I’m No Angel” on the big screen, this Sunday is your chance.
• • In this screen gem — — inspired by Bostock's lion exhibit in Coney Island that she adored as a little Brooklyn girl — — Mae West is a woman who knows what she wants and how to get it. And she wants Cary Grant. Again. The bold Tira works as a hootchie-cootchie dancing beauty and a lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number — — she'll put her head into a lion's mouth.• • The intrepid Mae West did all her own stunts in the lion's cage, too.• • When: At 2:00 pm on Sunday, 21 September 2008.
• • Where: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art [4420 Warwick Blvd. Kansas City, Missouri 64111 — — T: 816-753-5784.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West
• • Photo: • • Mae West • • 1933 • • NYC
Mae West.
Come up and see MAE in Kansas City next month — — and it won't cost you any coins. Okay, that's enough for the "hard C" sound. 
• • Pre-Code cinema from the early 1930s is a category that Mae did especially well in before the Hitler of Hollywood put his foot down.
• • The Kemper Museum’s series of pre-Code films will continue with four motion pictures that will be shown on Sundays at 2:00 PM. Screenings are free.
• • September 7th is the first showing — — “Beast of the City” starring Jean Harlow and Walter Huston.
• • September 21st is the second feature — — “I’m No Angel” starring Mae West as Tira, the gal who knew you didn't need feet in order to dance. Mae knows what she wants and how to get it in this 1933 effort co-starring Cary Grant. Her unapologetic sexuality is one reason the blue noses decided Hollywood needed to police itself.
• • Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art [4420 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Missouri 64111]; T 816-753-5784. They offer some neat freebies, too, such as free admission and parking. Tell them you heard about this on the MAE WEST BLOG.
• • By the way, the phrase "I'm No Angel" was first uttered by the heroine of Vanity Fair [published in 1848], a novel written by William Makepeace Thackeray. Here's the line: '''Revenge may be wicked, but it's natural,'' answered Miss Rebecca. ''I'm no angel.'' And, to say the truth, she certainly was not.'
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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• • Photo: • • Mae West • • 1933 • • NYC
Mae West.
Before April ends, it's time to squeeze in Mae West's dear old friend Grace La Rue.
• • Born on 23 April 1880 in Kansas City, MO, Grace La Rue was a major musical comedy star during the first two decades of the 20th century. In "The Honeymoon Express" the winsome actress introduced the song "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)" to an enraptured British audience at the London Palace on 4 August 1913.
• • During the Broadway run of that musical, however, cast member Al Jolson recorded that song for Columbia Records. During the number onstage one evening, Jolson went down on one knee and cried: “Gimme, gimme, what I cry for.” This created a sensation. When the audience wouldn’t let him sing anything else, he gave them one chorus after another — — even dismissing the cast altogether while Gaby Deslys was still on stage. The exasperated French diva quit the Winter Garden show, and Grace La Rue replaced her.
• • In 1919, Grace wed actor Hale Hamilton, and they toured together in vaudeviille.
• • Retired and residing in California, Grace LaRue — — age 48 — — made a brief appearance as Frances in She Done Him Wrong [1933] as a personal favor to Mae West.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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• • Photo: • • Mae West • • 1933 ad • •NYC
Mae West.
