Mae West: Movieland Wax Museum

Logan Fleming, who calls himself "the best wax figure maker in the world," visited MAE WEST at home after she agreed to be sculpted and rendered in wax for Buena Park's celebrity memorial destination — — Movieland Wax Museum.
• • The California tourist attraction first opened in 1962. A commercial artist who was often commissioned to do billboards, Fleming was disappointed by the figures on display; he felt he could do a much better job and was, eventually, hired.
• • According to Peter Larsen, who did a fascinating article for the Orange County Register: Around 1970, the museum started sending Logan Fleming out to do sittings at the homes of celebrities who agreed to be memorialized in wax. He'd photograph them from every angle, measure their heads and facial features with calipers, and usually come back with a good story about what the stars were really like.
• • Peter Larsen writes: The cast of "Star Trek" were among the first stars he met. He also met comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin from "Laugh-In." And, in a particularly memorable encounter, he worked with Mae West, then in her 80s.
• • "She was a real tough baby," Fleming says of Mae West, whose full story takes up a large part of the book he wrote with co-author Suzanne Sumner Ferry.
• • "She was 83 and she was still wearing a little negligee."
• • Peter Larsen adds: Throughout the '70s, Fleming created wax figures, from start to finish. Allen Parkinson sold the museum in 1970, and Fleming survived several changes in ownership, serving as the museum's art director and sculptor for nearly 30 years. He also worked a few freelance jobs with other wax museums on the side. In all, Fleming figures he's worked on more than 1,000 sculptures, from the early ones he painted to the later ones he made from scratch.
• • Peter Larsen concludes: Movieland Wax Museum closed on Halloween, 2005, and it was a tough day for Fleming. "I think it broke his heart to see that and not know where (the wax sculptures) ended up," Suzanne Sumner Ferry says. As for the book they've written — — The Day the Stars Stood Still — — even though it's still being shopped to publishers, Fleming is happy that it simply exists. . . .
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• • Article: "His Movieland memories are stronger than wax"
• • By PETER LARSEN
• • Published by: THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER — — www.ocregister.com
• • Published on: 17 December 2010
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Mae West: Mobile Movie Queen

The "mobile motor lodge" owned by MAE WEST has brought her history on wheels to a whole new audience: the RV buffs. Roving exhibitions have featured this vehicle along with a colorful coffeetable book.
• • In 1931, Mae West’s Paramount Studios contract included a chauffeur-driven “house car” for the star to relax in while filming movies. And it's interesting that Mae West happens to have something in common with Henry Ford [30 July 1863 — 7 April 1947] , Thomas Edison, Howard Hughes, John Madden, the Partridge Family [ABC series aired originally from 25 September 1970 until 31 August 1974], Ken Kesey, The Who, and even Barbie. All of these had a home on wheels — — be it an old converted school bus, a massive RV cruiser, or an elegant house car. These celebrity motorhomes are only the frosting on the cake in Douglas Keister's entertaining and informative new book Mobile Mansions.
• • Chico, California-based photographer Douglas Keister fills out his ultimate guide to RV nostalgia with entertaining descriptions, as well as a sampling of photos, including the deluxe motel-in-motion once enjoyed by Mae West and other cultural icons. Gibbs Smith is the publisher.
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Mae West: San Francisco Metreon

Items that once belonged to MAE WEST will be displayed on the West Coast as part of a large-scale exhibition: "Hollywood Legends: The Barry Barsamian Collection."
• • Ninety-five icons of stage, screen, and even TV series are represented in this show which has brought together an astonishing number of daytime garments, gowns, loungewear, ties, accessories, character costumes, fur coats, hats, jewelry, posters, photos, and props for this colorful array at the Metreon — — such as the ruby slippers and costumes worn by Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz."
• • A resident of Oakland, California, Barsamian got interested in collecting when, as a youngster, he would save his allowance to purchase TV Guides and also Shirley Temple dolls. Having a cousin in the entertainment industry [actor Mike Connors] sparked his interest in meeting other celebrities. Many of the items he acquired were purchased directly from personalities such as Mae West. Over the years, he hoarded and preserved paraphernalia belonging to Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Barbara Eden, Lucille Ball, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Agnes Moorhead, Bob Hope, Rock Hudson, Cary Grant, and others.
• • The show can be seen at the San Francisco Metreon (corner of 4th and Mission Streets).
• • The exhibition is scheduled to run from noon to 8:00 PM from Wednesdays — Sundays on the theater's ground floor.
• • The Barry Barsamian Collection exhibit will be on display until the end of May.
• • Several California publications have written about this passionate collector but the most interesting article appears in The San Francisco Chronicle.
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Mae West: Way Out, West Coast

Had she lived, MAE WEST (born in 1893) would have been enjoying her 116th birthday on 17 August 2009.
• • Happily, bi-coastal celebrations of her life and legacy have not stopped for the Mae-mavens among us.
• • Perhaps the Empress of Sex, who resided in a modest two-bedroom unit in the Ravenswood from 1932 — 1980 (where the blinds were always drawn), loved best her confined and old-fashioned white-and-gold living quarters, which made her feel safe. Similarly, some devotees have decorated their abodes in a retro style that must be labeled "Way Out West." Ramfis Diaz, a lifelong collector and MAE-niac, is in this number, enjoying his unique wall-to-wall Mae-Westian in a Los Angeles location so secret that anyone who attempts to enter is immediately pre-screened for waspish Jayne Mansfield tendencies. Or so we hear.
• • This Mae-flavored Mecca was the scene of a festive annual gathering just days ago when the screen queen's faithful congregated on Ramfis's roof under a balloon-studded birthday sign. [See photos.]
• • "It was the best party we ever had!" proclaimed Damon Devine, a handsome Hollywood heart throb. "All the essentials were present: catered Chinese cuisine, a full bar, a sumptuous cake, and a very nice crowd. Mae West photos were everywhere along with big number 8s. Party-goers grooved to the sounds of cool late 1950s, early 1960s lounge music — — and, of course, lots of Mae West covers. The guest list was notable for its diversity in age and race. Once again, the red-headed nudist was there! He has become a fixture now! Chris Basinger (a friend of Mae West's and Ravenswood front desk clerk in the early 1970s) made it this year, as well as Kevin Thomas of the L.A. Times. In our midst was also a Mae West impersonator. I hope next year can match this!"
• • Damon Devine added: "During our celebration, several Angelenos were logging on to your Mae West Blog via their i-Phones and PDAs. They love this site."
• • On to the buffet. Help yourself to a slice of eye-candy — — photographs sent courtesy of the devastatingly delightful Damon Devine, who crafted the beautiful Mae West doll in the center of the last photo.
• • Pictures are the property of Damon Devine and were used with permission. So show some respect or else you'll have to answer to Owney Madden, chump.
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Mae West: Quality

Stars inside their Hollywood homes — — Architectural Digest just revisited the topic and featured MAE WEST at home again.
• • Ten celebrities had been photographed inside their residence. When the movie queen was spotlighted in this publication, here's the text they ran:
• • “There’s always been just one way — — what’s right for me,” said the indomitable Mae West. Like many performers, West was a mixture of show-off and recluse, a personality at once calculatingly public and insistently private. These two facets of the actress’s nature were reflected in her home and the life she led there — — not in any balanced way but, like nesting boxes, one hidden within the other. Outside was the Mae West persona, sex-obsessed, and self-loving, for which she found a domestic equivalent in the apartment she moved into in 1932, when she first arrived in Los Angeles, and where, in what may well be a record for residential longevity in Hollywood, she remained for the next 48 years.
• • Located on the sixth floor of the Ravenswood, an Art Déco building on Rossmore Avenue whose other tenants included Ava Gardner, Hedda Hopper, and Judy Garland, West’s apartment was modest in size. It had just two bedrooms, a tiny kitchen, and common rooms that were by no means grand, but the decoration aspired to grandeur, and beyond. “Quality, quality — — that’s all I heard [from my mother],” Mae West told Life Magazine in 1969. “Everything has proportion, nothing is jarring. Everything is symphony.” Fearful of the damaging effects of sunlight and fresh air on her beauty, she kept the blinds permanently drawn and the air conditioning perpetually humming. (April 1994)
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• • Column: "Stars in Residence: Hollywood Homes"
• • Published in: Architectural Digest — — http://www.architecturaldigest.com
• • Published in: July 2009 [originally printed in their April 1994 issue]
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Mae West: 100 Years

Formerly known as the Columbia Theatre and the Geary Theatre when MAE WEST trod the boards, this magnificent San Francisco showplace will soon celebrate its 100th birthday.
• • Constructed in 1909, and opened to the public on 10 January 1910, the 1.024-seat Beaux Arts auditorium has been the headquarters of the A.C.T. acting company since former director Bill Ball relocated the group to the West Coast from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1965.
• • The Geary Theater was nearly destroyed in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake; the extensive damage caused to the structure shuttered it for seven years.
• • American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Artistic Director Carey Perloff announced the lineup of the company's 43rd subscription season today. The season will welcome some of the best American and international artists to the Bay Area and also celebrate the 100th anniversary of this national landmark, a celebrated architectural icon in a city renowned for its urban beauty.
• • During its storied past, this has been a venue for performers of the likes of Mae West, Sarah Bernhardt, Helen Hayes, Isadora Duncan, Clark Gable, Laurence Olivier, and others.
• • The building is located here: 415 Geary Street [at Mason Street], San Francisco, CA 94108.
• • Its near neighbor is the Curran Theatre — — where Mae West performed her blockbuster success "Diamond Lil" in 1929 — — located at 445 Geary Street (San Francisco, CA 94102).
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Mae West: Front Row News

Continuing our eye-witness coverage of the MAE WEST panel at UCLA on 23 February 2009, here are more first-person accounts sent in by our intrepid Hollywood correspondents following Monday's clam-bake.
• • One strikingly handsome Angeleno shares this observation: Brought in from the lobby to the James Bridges Theatre were a few Mae West costumes. And THANK GOD, as they would prove to be the only interesting element of the evening. On display was a well-preserved blue dress worn by Mae's character Peaches O'Day in "Every Day's a Holiday" [released in the USA as holiday fare on 18 December 1937]. This beautifully embellished costume was designed 72 years ago by Elsa Schiaparelli. Also on view were Mae's small white satin shoes used during her speakeasy scenes as Maudie Triplett in "Night After Night" and the black sequined and white fur ensemble whipped up for the 1958 Academy Awards grand opening number with Rock Hudson — — and later re-used in "Sextette."
• • According to our trusty Angeleno eagle-eye: The Mae West panel was made up of Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times, Charlotte Chandler, Tim Malachosky, Marvin Paige (a notorious "casting" director), Jonathan Kuntz (an historian of the old Hollywood studio system), and Dan Price (a film archivist who actually knew Miss West very well). Biographer Charlotte Chandler — — her notorious giant curls at half mast on this night — — looked remarkably like my deceased friend Quentin Crisp. She appeared fatigued, but spoke very well. It would seem this is an ANNUAL ROUTINE FOR HER. A book per year, and then this kind of christening ritual in the same theater. Charlotte Chandler said Mae West gave her a bottle of baby oil and said it should be applied warm, by a man, all over. She also gave her some cosmetics. She CLAIMED to have heard a "fluttering" not unlike bird wings, only to discover it was Mae's heavy false eyelashes brushing her cheek as she was blinking.
• • Unfortunately, there were not too many voyagers into Mae West's storied past on February 23rd. UCLA's promotion coordinators put forth a rather low-energy outreach and the auditorium (which can accommodate 278 listeners) was barely half-full for this free event.
• • The Mae West blog is grateful to these stalwart screen-lovers for their patience and their comments. More front-row details will appear tomorrow.
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Mae West: Front Row Views

They came up to see MAE WEST — — about 100 devotees and curiosity seekers, lining up before 7:30 PM on Monday February 23rd outside of UCLA's Melnitz Hall (i.e., the James Bridges Theater, which can seat 248 adults).
• • The Mae West Blog heard from a number of West Coast eye-witnesses and attendees, all of whom are well-versed in MAE-ology. In other words, they've seen all the movies, they know the Westian one-liners by heart, they've read the books, they've collected their share of a-MAE-zing memorabilia, and they were expecting a little class from an event staged at UCLA, where Mae West accepted an award as "Woman of the Century" in 1971 when she was 78 years old.
• • Moderated by Robert Rosen, Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, "the event will be filled with surprises and goodies to make it a night to remember," promised the UCLA press release. However, the evening seems to have been organized by one of the campus leaf-blowers instead.
• • An informed source describes the peculiar "welcome" token on February 23rd: "On our way in, we were all handed a low quality laser copy of Mae West's 1947 passport, which had nothing to do with anything, nor was anyone at all interested, except the die-hards (and there were none here, except me, who has a much higher quality version at home). Why this exceedingly odd item was chosen as a hand-out, no one knew. And no info of any kind was written on it."
• • Our informed source adds: "Inside we saw a gigantic screen with very common, PIXILATED images of Mae West — — every single one obtained by a quick and effortless Google image search."
• • Whose hands were clapping? Another Angeleno insider dishes: "The audience was not comprised of young college students interested in all that Mae West has done for cinema, women, or gay people. The crowd was mostly in the age range of 50 to 70 and two-thirds were male. A sprinkling of women in their 20s — 50s dotted a few rows in this amphitheatre."
• • Unfortunately, there were not too many voyagers into Mae West's storied past on February 23rd. UCLA's promotion coordinators put forth a low-energy outreach and the auditorium was barely half-full.
• • The panelists, charged with discussing their personal and intimate recollections of one of the most fascinating and versatile American icons of the 20th century, were not the most riveting raconteurs, it would appear, alas and alack. A disappointed attendee writes: "I was startled to notice that over one-third of the audience had fallen asleep. Only when Kevin Thomas or Dan Price said something amusing did the listeners seem to be revived for a bit. And even Charlotte Chandler herself appeared to be dozing off on occasion!"
• • One sharp-eyed seat-holder remarked: "At the very beginning, the host said that topics such as what Mae West did for the women's movement, gay people, and the cinema would be discussed, as well as her being a sexual icon. Turns out that no such profound subjects were ever discussed on February 23rd, even in passing."
• • The Mae West blog is grateful to these observers for their comments. More front-row details will appear tomorrow.
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Mae West: Over Exposed

On orders from MAE WEST herself, her publicity department does not write stories about her anymore.
• • To those who ask for interviews, manager James Timony tactfully explains that Mae is extremely busy writing the next scenario. There has been, Mae and her studio have concluded, "Too much West."
• • Mae's appearance in court here for several days, to tell how she was robbed of diamonds and money, was of no little concern to herself, her manager, and her studio — — but not so much for reasons of justice as for those of career. She knew beforehand that she'd be quoted and photographed, the very things she had been trying to avoid. . . .
• • As to the effect of this publicity, consider the declaration of a former West admirer and inveterate picture-goer, who told me: "I haven't seen the new Mae West picture. I've read so much about her and seen her photographs so often that I don't want to see 'I'm No Angel'!"
• • This attitude is one which Mae and Paramount fear may become too prevalent. If it does gain ground, the excellence of future Mae West pictures will be of little matter.
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• • Screen Life in Hollywood by Hubbard Keavy [1934]
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Mae West: Poetic Lust

An annual erotic poetry event in sunny California was inspired by MAE WEST. Who knew?
• • Taking place on December 29th this month at Priya Indian Cuisine [see below for the complete address in Berkeley], Poetry Express extends an invitation to its sixth annual "Between the Holidays Erotic Poetry Night."
• • The name of the event is a syntactic nod to Mae West, says Poetry Express host Mark States, who explains that the bawdy thespian "named her legs Christmas and New Year's and asked if you would 'come visit her between the holidays.'" [Perhaps we should state the obvious — — that this was well-known quip was not a line from one of the actress's movies for Paramount Pictures — — because a comment like this in a screenplay surely would have been red-lined by the film board's purity police.]
• • Throughout the evening, attendees' readings at the open mic will be interspersed with Mae West witticisms, quips, and quotes.
• • Although Poetry Express happens almost every Monday evening throughout the year . . . PE's erotica theme nights are a popular tradition in the local open-mic scene. One year, States remembers, "a triad — — one wife, two husbands — — came and read their group-sex poems to each other. Somehow," he laughs, "the rest of us felt left out." Another year, "the sensuous lesbian love stories were the most popular and sweat-inducing. ... Good erotic poetry does not have to be obscene, nor technical like the Kama Sutra," advises States, a noted performance poet whose books include Reinvention from Mother's Hen, Grip of the Past, and Tongue Control. "It should engage the audience, make them see and smell and taste the experience as though they were there. . . . If you can make me blush and sweat, you've written a great erotic poem." . . .
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• • Article: Do Tell: Warm up a winter night with erotic poetry, performed live.
• • Byline: Anneli Rufus
• • Published by: East Bay Express — — www.eastbayexpress.com/
• • Published on: 24 December 2008
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• • Priya Indian Cuisine is located here: 2072 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, California 94702; 510-644-3977
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Mae West; Good "Sex"

Mae West deserves a better columnist than anyone on the staff at The Mercury News.
• • Half-right history from the pen of reporter Karen D'Souza provides an itchy discomfort for theatre fans who know better.
• • Listen in as she hacks her way, inexpertly, through a partial autopsy of "Sex."
• • Alas, the photo of Delia MacDougall in a platinum blonde wig that looks like a Hallowe'en nightmare is not worth reprinting. Mae West never wore her hair like that during the 1920s — — nor onstage in "Sex." [See the photo of Mae West and Lyons Wickland in the Broadway production, 1926 — 1927.]
• • Ssssh. Not a word to the silly West Coasters.
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• • GOOD SEX !?! • •
• • By Karen D'Souza

• • When she was good, she was very good, but when she was bad, she was better…
• • Indeed, Mae West was so naughty in the 1926 Broadway smash “Sex,’’ that she got tossed into the slammer on indecency charges. Her first full-length play got her nabbed by the coppers but it also established her reputation as a bon-mot spewing bombshell with a wit as sparkling as her diamonds. As she once famously quipped: “A hard man is good to find.” That notorious sense of the lascivious paved the way for her breakthrough film “She Done Him Wrong’’ and set her on the path to becoming the highest paid star in Hollywood.
• • With a backstory that sizzling, you’d expect a play hot and bothered enough not just to raise eyebrows but to singe them right off your face. Alas, while West laced this creaky melodrama with scads of her legendary one-liner gems, the play never really reaches a climax. Despite Delia MacDougall’s come-hither tour-de-fierce as the first lady of risque and some delish vintage double entendres, “Sex’’ blows hot and cold at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre.
• • It’s a pity because Delia MacDougall here plays against type and proves herself to be a superb shimmier.
• • She nails the signature seismic sashay and gimlet-eyed stare that made West an icon.
• • Decked out in a platinum blonde bob, MacDougall’s exacting replication of West is uncanny. This sex goddess didn’t just wiggle, she swayed from stem to stern. She didn’t so much talk as purr, caressing the ear with a velvety voice full-bodied enough to scratch.
• • Yearn to come up and see her some time?
• • Pick up the paper [The Mercury News] Wednesday for a full review of the show’s prowess but know this now: this “Sex’’ doesn’t entirely satisfy. Sigh.
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• • Source: The Mercury News — mercurynews.com
• • Byline: Karen D'Souza
• • Published on: 9 November 2007
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Mae West: "Sex" Returns!

MAE WEST returns to the West Coast when the Aurora Theatre Company offers "Sex" as part of their new season.
• • A world premiere along with two West Coast premieres highlight the typically ambitious five-play season announced today by Artistic Director Tom Ross.
• • Local actress Delia MacDougall (a Bay Area favorite) takes on the gutsy Margie LaMont role, which Mae West wrote for herself, in a revival of the 1926 comedy that landed its star in jail. Tom Ross himself will be directing "Sex," with music direction by Billy Philadelphia, in November 2007.
• • Aurora Theatre Company • 2081 Addison St. • Berkeley, CA 94704
• • Online: www.auroratheatre.org
• • Tickets: 510-843-4822
• • Tell them the Mae West blog told you to come up and see Aurora!
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Mae West: Man Fook

MAE WEST knew men but she also had a special place in her heart for Man Fook Low. In Los Angeles, her favorite Oriental eatery was Man Fook Low in Market Chinatown, one of the first places to feature the dumplings now known as dim sum.
• • In the 1930s, Hollywood started patronizing the top Chinatown restaurants. Repeat attenders included chopstick-wielders such as Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet, Walt Disney, and the Marx Brothers. During the Depression, when movie people could afford to eat well at a time when many Americans were jobless, the West Coast gossip columns and movie magazines would mention Tuey Far Low alongside showbiz hang-outs such as the Brown Derby, Sardi's, and the Coconut Grove. (Tuey Far Low courted customers by staying open until 5 A.M.)
• • Celebrities also flocked to Man Jen Low and the Dragon's Den.
• • In Mae's opinion, however, Man Fook Low was THE PLACE for "authentic" Chinese chow. In 1959 their shui mai dumplings were 35 cents each.
• • The Lunar Year 2007 begins the year of the pig.
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Mae West: Big O

It's time for the big O. MAE WEST never took Oscar to bed - - that cold gold-plated statuette - - but there are a lot of people heading to "Oscar country" in time for the 79th Annual Academy Awards. And the Los Angeles tour guides are ready.
• • If you're en route to California, you can come up and see Mae and her friends on a junket called "Dearly Departed." A Director of Undertakings, who has researched “a scary amount of knowledge about all things Hollywood” [according to a recent independent Viator user review], ushers travelers through decades of death, murder, and fun during this excursion. Prices for the Dearly Departed Tour start at $35.00. Scenes frequented by the famous and infamous are explored, as well as the "final scene" for many an actor including MAE WEST, Frank Sinatra, River Phoenix, Bela Lugosi, etc.
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