Mae West: Duesie Got Away

A 1935 trophy car, originally built for MAE WEST, was sold again to a new owner at a Monterey, California car auction during August 2007, it was reported recently.
• • Duesenberg built just 36 supercharged 320-hp Model SJs, wrote car-newshound Ken Gross. This swoopy Bohman & Schwartz Town Car, originally destined for silver-screen bombshell Mae West, was snapped up for $20 grand in 1935 by Ethel V. Mars, the candy fortune heiress.
• • A dog when it was painted silver, RM [the seller] sprayed this car a sinister jet black. Ending a spirited bidding duel, Peter Bainbridge's gavel fell at $4.4 million, proving that Duesies — — even with staid, formal coachwork — — remain America's undisputed classics and will never go out of style, according to Ken Gross.
• • An automobile formerly owned by Steve McQueen sold for $2.3 million during the same vintage vehicle auction . . .
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• • Source: Edmunds' Inside Line
• • Article: "Top 10 Sales at the 2007 Monterey Auctions"
• • Byline: Ken Gross, Road Warrior columnist
• • Published 28 October 2007
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: 1932

MAE WEST co-starred in the 1932 "speakeasy" film "Night After Night" with two actresses who are linked to the month of May.
• • Constance Cummings, who was 22 when she played a socialite Jerry Healy in the movie, was born in Seattle, Washington on 15 May 1910. At age 95, the actress died in Oxfordshire, England on 23 November 2005.
• • Constance's blueblood persona was based on the heiress Barbara Hutton (who inherited the Woolworth fortune), who had once lived in a rowhouse on West 56th Street – – before it was turned into a ginmill operated by gangster Larry Fay.
• • Wynne Gibson, who played the "tough" cookie Iris Dawn [the dame George Raft's character Joe Anton is getting tired of], died on 15 May 1987 of cerebral thrombosis.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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