Mae West: Getting Fresh Free

Pomona, California does not have a moviehouse but that does not stop the metro area from saluting MAE WEST and W.C. Fields, who will be getting freshly aired on July 17th.
• • Annually, the stars come out in Pomona — — as part of their wonderful Fresh Air Flick Summer Schedule.
• • Each Friday evening, fondly regarded motion pictures are screened for free al fresco style.
• • Movie-lovers will enjoy "My Little Chickadee" next Friday evening on a funky inflatable outdoor screen set up downtown at Thomas Street Plaza.
• • Bring a chair, pack some popcorn, and head over to Thomas Plaza in downtown Pomona at the junction of West 2nd Street and Thomas Street. After you enjoy this 1940 cinema classic, pick up a schedule to see what else will be screened through July and August. The final flicker will be "Cool Hand Luke" on 4 September 2009.
• • The genesis of "My Little Chickadee" was jump-started at the end of May 1939. Mae West had returned to Hollywood after touring with her play about Catherine the Great and began negotiating with Universal Studios to co-star with another comedian. Aware of the former vaudevillian's reputation for drinking, Mae hesitated. Universal upped the game by offering her $300,000 for the film, the script, and a promise that anytime Fields was intoxicated, he would be banned from the set. The first time Fields drunkenly stumbled into the studio, Mae shouted, "Pour him out of here!" Very quickly, everybody knew she meant business.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Dom Gone

We bid a fond adieu to a comedian who worked with MAE WEST.
• • Brooklyn native Dominick "Dom" DeLuise was born on 1 August 1933 to Italian American parents Vicenza and John DeLuise.
• • Like Mae, Dom DeLuise hailed from Brooklyn, New York. During the 1960s, the moon-faced entertainer was often seen on TV variety shows and also boosted the comic quotient in motion pictures featuring Mel Brooks and Burt Reynolds.
• • The 75-year-old funnyman passed away on Monday evening — — 4 May 2009 — — at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, according to his agent Robert Malcolm. DeLuise's wife Carol and three sons were at his bedside when he took his final breaths.
• • "Dom DeLuise was a naturally funny man," averred film critic Leonard Maltin. "He didn't need a script to be funny, but smart people like Mel Brooks knew how to give him just the right setting and showcase."
• • Dom DeLuise, who has many movie credits to his name, was also seen in Sextette [1978]. Released by Crown International, this musical comedy starred Mae West. Others in the cast included Timothy Dalton, Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr, George Hamilton, Alice Cooper, and Walter Pidgeon.
• • Dom DeLuise also played host in the documentary film "Mae West . . . and the Men Who Knew Her."
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: W.C. Fields

Mmm, that birthday is coming up fast, my little chickadee!
• • William Claude Dukenfield was the birth name of actor W.C. Fields [29 January 1880 - - 25 December 1946]. Born in Darby, Pennsylvania at the end of January, the vaudevillian toured the country and began making "flickers" in 1915. That year the comedian made his first silent: "His Lordship's Dilemma."
• • Like MAE WEST, Fields wrote several of his own screenplays. He appeared in over three dozen movies. Near the end of his career, he collaborated with his co-star Mae West on the script of "My Little Chickadee" [1940]. Fields took the role of Cuthbert J. Twillie. Mae West played Flower Belle Lee. Edward F. Cline directed.
• • After years of immoderate drinking, W.C. Fields died on Christmas Day 1946 in Pasadena, California of a stomach hemorrhage.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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