Mae West: Liverpool in January

MAE WEST will open the Controversial Classics Cinema Series in Liverpool later this month — — and her cinematic version of "Diamond Lil" will be onscreen in The Empire State.
• • Oddly enough, this motion picture has not been listed on the library's web site yet but we were tipped off, thanks to the sharpies at Eagle Newspaper in frosty Syracuse, New York.
• • Eagle-eyed arts reporters announced it: "The Liverpool Public Library is pleased to have Syracuse University Professor Kendall Phillips back to present another series on controversial films, their impact on and the reaction to them by society. The first program will take place at 6:00PM on Thursday 21 January 2010 in the Carman Community Room." [Source: Eagle Newspapers — — www.cnylink.com]
• • Kendall Phillips is a leading scholar of rhetoric, public discourse, and rhetoric of popular culture. His university bio notes that he explores these concepts through a variety of rhetorical artifacts, including comic books, film, political speeches, and scientific controversies, and teaches such popular courses as “The Rhetoric of Film,” “Rhetoric and the Public Sphere” and “The Rhetoric of Popular Culture.”
• • On January 21st, Phillips will deliver a short lecture before the screening of "She Done Him Wrong" [1933] starring Mae West and written by her. Since the motion picture is a fast-paced 68 minutes, it is hoped that his prelude will also be bright, breezy, and brief. A post-film discussion will follow. This is a free event and the public is welcome.
• • The Controversial Classics Cinema Series will continue on Thursday evening 18th February with "The Dirty Dozen."
• • WHERE: The Liverpool Public Library: 310 Tulip Street, Liverpool, New York 13088; Telephone: (315) 457-0310. Tell 'em you heard about it on the MAE WEST BLOG.
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Mae West: Adolph Zukor

MAE WEST worked with everyone from A to Z — — and, at Paramount Pictures, she met the biggest AZ of all.
• • Born in early January as "Adolph Cukor," Adolph Zukor [7 January 1873 — 10 June 1976] was a film mogul and founder of Paramount Pictures.
• • The Hungarian journalist Farkas László writes: Throughout the 1920's Zukor used to receive about 40 letters a day from a Hungarian nation proud of his fame and stature. He never forgot the land of his birth, and was never ashamed to let people know where he was from. He hired many Hungarians to work in his studio.
• • I'M NO ANGEL (1933) • •
• • Farkas László adds: A great starring vehicle for Mae West, world famous then as a vamp. She horrified the prudes by being not only proud of herself, but acting like it made her happy! She instantly became the feminine embodiment of the Antichrist to the puritans. The Catholic Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago warned people that watching a Mae West picture was a sin, and ordered his priests to picket outside of movie theaters with signs, telling people to stay away. How silly; you can't buy publicity like that, and for Zukor, it was all just money in the bank! Dietrich and West were two sex symbol women whose talents were best utilized by Paramount. ...
• • Farkas László concludes: Zukor ended his day-to-day oversight of film production in 1936, when he became Chairman of the Board, a position he kept until the end of his life. He died in 1976, at the incredible age of 103. Not bad for a man who decided to "cut back" his smoking to five cigars a day!
• • Go read the whole article and enjoy the photographs.
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• • Article: "When Hungarians Ruled Hollywood: A Birthday Tribute to the Great Adolph Zukor"
• • BY: Farkas László | Commentator
• • Published by: Pestiside — — www.pestiside.hu
• • Published on: 7 January 2010
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Mae West: Back to 1939

It was the worst of times economically but it was the best of times for Hollywood and MAE WEST. During the 1930s, some of the most memorable motion picture ambitions were being mined. They had STORY then. They had big budgets. They had stars under contract.
• • Turning up the lights on the year 1939, David Parkinson had this to say: Turmoil also disrupted the inaugural Cannes Film Festival. A “steamship of stars' had crossed the Atlantic carrying, amongst others, Mae West, Gary Cooper, Charles Boyer, Douglas Fairbanks, Tyrone Power. A giant facsimile of Notre Dame had even been erected on the beach for the 1 September gala screening of William Dieterle's adaptation of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. However, Hitler's Germany invaded Poland that day and, when the Russian documentary accompanying Dieterle's costumer snapped in the projector, it was decided to abandon the festivities. ...
• • Go read the whole article and savor the vintage.
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• • Article: "1939 – The Best of All Time?"
• • BY: David Parkinson
• • Published by: Film in Focus — — filminfocus.com
• • Published on: 6 January 2010
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Mae West: Hot_l Harlem

Discover the Harlem hotspots loved by MAE WEST — — along with a new angle on the night clubs where she performed along with Ella Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Al Jolson, Billie Holiday, Irving Berlin, etc. — — when you enjoy a walking tour of Harlem.
• • A six-hour adventure exploring West 125th Street (and beyond) is enthusiatically led by The Big Apple Jazz Tour's founder: Gordon Polatnick.
• • Owned by Mae's generous lover Owney Madden, The Cotton Club would broadcast their Sunday night night shows over the radio. Featured acts on "Celebrity Night" might put Mae West at the mike or other prominent Caucasians such as George Gershwin, Al Jolson, and Irving Berlin.
• • In her novel The Constant Sinner, Mae situated Babe Gordon selling cocaine hidden in rouge containers at the department store near the Apollo.
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Mae West: Eddie Sutherland

A director who worked with MAE WEST at Paramount Pictures has escaped our attention up until now. Since it's his birthday, a few paragraphs are in order.
• • Born in London, England in early January, A. Edward Sutherland [5 January 1895 — 31 December 1973] hailed from a theatrical family. Al Sutherland, his father, was an American-born theatre manager and producer; Julie Ring, his mother, was an American vaudeville performer. Early in his career, Sutherland was cast in more than thirty-six silent movies — — after his debut as one of the original Keystone Cops in "Tillie's Punctured Romance" [1914], a slapstick feature that starred Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, and Marie Dressler. Mack Sennett launched him at age 19 into a long career in films.
• • In 1926, at age 31, he had transitioned into the director of "It's the Old Army Game" starring W.C. Fields, with whom he remained friends.
• • The five-foot-eight charmer, who was much married, was once wed to the beautiful Louise Brooks. . . briefly.
• • He helmed "Every Day's a Holiday" [1938], which starred Mae West and featured Edmund Lowe, Charles Butterworth, Charles Winninger, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Catlett, Chester Conklin, and Louis Armstrong.
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Mae West: The Dike in "Klondike"

MAE WEST, best known for her friendships with homosexuals and drag queens, also had gay women in her circle.
• • Born on January 4th • •
• • New Jersey native Marion Morgan [born on 4 January 1881] — — in the spotlight as a young dancer and then as a 34-year-old choreographer — — relocated to the West Coast. In 1930, she moved into the Hollywood Hills house owned by her lover, film director Dorothy Arzner. They lived openly together for over 40 years until Marion's death in 1971.
• • Morphing into a screenwriter, the very versatile and attractive Marion Morgan worked on the script for "Goin' to Town" [1935] and "Klondike Annie" [1936].
• • This career move was quite a change. Audiences and critics had known her because of the Marion Morgan Dancers, formed in 1915, which was originally comprised of six young women who had studied with Marion Morgan in California. The troupe specialized in ballets adapted from classical legends, such as 'Helen of Troy,' and usually danced in togas and bare feet.
• • In this image, San Francisco photo-journalist Arnold Genthe captures Marion Morgan as she glides across the stage, wearing a flowing costume and carrying a drum head.
• • Marion Morgan lived to be 90 years old. She died on 10 November 1971 in Los Angeles, California.
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Mae West: Staten Island

An Art Deco confection, where comedienne MAE WEST had inspired the thunderous applause that makes paint flake from the walls, is about to emerge from its Miss Havisham-like decay. The building had closed as a movie theater in 1977.
• • According to Staten Island Live's reportage, the once glorious Paramount Theater is set to reopen later this month on the North Shore — — the area closest to the ferry dock, which overlooks Manhattan — — as an entertainment hotspot, sparking hope that this historic building will pump new life into Stapleton’s commercial heart. Mae West, who was under contract to Paramount Pictures for several years, appeared in several of their theatres coast to coast.
• • Local reporter Jodi Lee Reifer writes: The Art Deco theater, with its figurative wall sculptures and Egyptian-style ceiling paintings, opened in 1930 at 560 Bay St. with 2,500 seats. In its 1940s heyday, the venue was the site of beauty and jitterbug contests and war bond auctions. Movie stars such as Mae West, Gary Cooper, Mary Pickford, etc. appeared on stage there, and it was one of only 10 theaters in the country that possessed two giant organs.
• • Jodi Lee Reifer adds: The venue will serve as a catering hall, restaurant and performance center, with bands, comics and plays potentially appearing on stage, said Hsiu Sung (David) Yang, who is opening the Paramount with partners Charley Zerrilli and Peter Lisi as part of SI Paramount Inc.
• • “It’s going to revitalize the neighborhood by bringing in some good acts,” Peter Lisi predicted. ...
• • If you enjoy learning about second acts and historic playhouses, you might find the article interesting. Follow the link to read on.
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• • Article: "Historic Paramount set to reopen"
• • BY: Jodi Lee Reifer
• • Published by: SILive.com — — www.silive.com
• • Published on: 2 January 2010
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Mae West: Freebie in Carolina

When a new modern art museum debuts on Saturday 2 January 2010, visitors are invited to attend the opening day for free — — and enjoy a Max Ernst sculpture inspired by MAE WEST and WC Fields.
• • Where: Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, 402 S Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28202; T 704-353-9200.
• • Not to be missed is this masterpiece on the fourth-floor main gallery — — "Study for a Monument to W.C. Fields," by Max Ernst, a tribute to the movie "My Little Chickadee," co-starring Fields and Mae West.
• • This splendid assemblage includes "Spirales Logarithmiques" by Le Corbusier, "Woman Drying Herself After the Bath" by Edgar Degas, works by Picasso, Nicolas de Staël, Jasper Johns, and others.
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Mae West: Larry in January

A short story "Single Night" by Louis Bromfield became the backbone of the Paramount film "Night After Night" [released on 30 October 1932] — — which was a triumphant screen debut for MAE WEST. Here she is, as Maudie Triplett, poised in the doorway of Joe Anton's speakeasy on West 56th Street, about to tell the doorman it's "the fairy princess, ya mug!"
• • January 1st • •
• • Two months after the film was distributed to movie houses across the country, bootlegger Larry Fay met a spectacularly crimson-soaked death inside 33 West 56th Street on 1 January 1933.
• • Janus, the Roman god of gates and doorways, looks both ways. And the house on West 56th Street certainly looked different from the perspective of George Raft, Mae West, Louis Bromfield, and Larry Fay.
• • January 2nd • •
• • A more pleasant January memory for Mae West took place a year later. On 2 January 1934, when her sister Beverly applied for a marriage license in Chicago, it was hoped that her second Russian husband would be a better companion than her ex-husband Sergei Treshatny. The groom Vladimir Baikoff made Beverly's acquaintance when both were booked on a radio program. Beverly was doing her famous Mae West impersonation for a broadcast — — and Vlad was eager to conjugate some sultry Slavic verbs with her in private, after the show.
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Mae West: A Midnight Belle

MAE WEST rang in her banner New York year, 1928, with a one-night stand, hosting a nightclub, a la Texas Guinan, at Club Deauville — — then located at Park Avenue and East 59th Street [the night of December 31, 1927 — January 1, 1928].
• • During the Prohibition Era, Mae West had bought a townhouse for herself — — at 266 West End Avenue — — shortly before she moved to Hollywood. She lived there with her sister Beverly, whose Russian husband had divorced her over a scandal related to the out-of-town premiere [Bridgeport, Connecticut] of Mae's gay play "The Drag." There was an arrest at the Arcade Hotel and Beverly West along with director Edward Elsner were charged with "disorderly conduct" [i.e., being drunk]. The police action made headlines. Uh-oh!
• • A happier topic would be Mae's old haunts — — the neighborhood known as the Upper West Side [stretching roughly from West 61st to West 76th Street]. This is the single-most-star-studded area in Manhattan, according to the "Star Sleuth" Larry "Wolfe" Horwitz. Within this neighborhood is an area that Larry Horwitz has labeled a Star Walk: a ten-block strip along Central Park West that contains "the greatest concentration of movie stars and other celebrities anywhere in the world," according to him.
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Mae West: December 1919

On 28 December 1919, MAE WEST was very busy — — double-booked, in fact.
• • The 26-year-old "firefly of vaudeville" was appearing that night at the Lyric Theatre [on 42nd Street, west of Broadway]. Sharing the Lyric bill with her were these entertainers: Eugene and Willie, the Howard Brothers; Carl McCullough; the 4 Haley Sisters; and "8 other favorite acts."
• • On the same night, Mae West performed at the 44th Street Theatre [near Broadway]. On the program was the top-billed act — — Sophie Tucker and Her Kings of Syncopation — — along with Ames & Winthrop, Mae West, Riggs & Witchie, and "8 other favorite acts."
• • Sophie Tucker • •
• • Sophie Tucker [13 January 1884 — 9 February 1966] was one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first third of the 20th century. Almost ten years older than Mae and not as controversial when she launched her career, Sophie Tucker had an ethnic appeal which upped her forward momentum and she was, in fact, a much bigger draw in vaudeville than the Brooklyn bombshell.
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Mae West: Dixie in 1934

It was on 28 December 1934 that the good folks in The Yellowhammer State were anticipating another visit from MAE WEST.
• • The announcement in the local paper The Star read: The glamorous Mae West returns to the Ritz Theater screen Monday night [Dec. 31, 1934] as the star of the featured attraction being shown at the New Year's Eva gala which begins at 11:30 p.m. Hats, horns, serpentine, and balloons will add to the enjoyment of the party. Serpentine, eh?
• • The Star is published in Anniston, Alabama — — the heart of Dixie.
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Mae West: Seminole

A strolling impersonator — — made up to resemble MAE WEST — — will delight New Year's Eve celebrants in Coconut Creek, Florida.
• • A party-planner at the Seminole Casino had the idea of offering a Ziegfeld Follies-style show along with the usual sit-down supper and balloon-drop on 31 December 2009. The New Century Dance Company will perform onstage show. A live band will play music from the 1930s to today.
• • Topping off the retro entertainment in the butterfly capital of the world will be strolling impersonators of Mae West, WC Fields, and others.
• • WHERE: Seminole Casino Coconut Creek — — Entertainment Pavilion, 5550 NW 40th St., Coconut Creek, FL, 33073; T 954-977-6700.
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Mae West: Lou's Big Night

MAE WEST and George Raft knew the address well — — well before Louis Bromfield was drinking there one afternoon with his newsman buddy Lucius Beebe, a Herald-Times columnist. Club Napoleon, a speakeasy on the grand scale, was located at 33 West 56th Street, then a fancy block of Beaux Arts mansions. Years before it became an illegal ginmill, 33 West 56th had been the childhood home of Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton. The gracious townhouse next door had been designed by Bruce Price for a prominent physician.
• • Both Mae West and her character Maudie Triplett were used to standing in the shouting place and breathing in a strong dose of masculinity — — booze, beer, cigars, sweat, and spit — — as evening comes down in the shape of a boxing arena or a speakeasy, a zone a man wants to own. A mob-controlled place only the tough girls are seen in.
• • Though he made his name writing about rural life, Louis Bromfield was intrigued by the downward mobility of West 56th Street, once the preserve of bluebloods but now in the hands of gangsters who ran the speakeasy Mona Lisa [36 West 56th] or Larry Fay, who opened his parlor floors to drinkers.
• • December 27th — — a good beginning at the end of the year
• • Born Lewis Brumfield in Ohio in the month of December — — on 27 December 1896 — — the 6' 2" inch journalist won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Early Autumn [1926], and then turned to writing fulltime. His short story "Single Night" became the backbone of the Paramount film "Night After Night" [released on 30 October 1932]. Two months after the film was distributed to moviehouses across the country, bootlegger Larry Fay met a spectacularly crimson-soaked death inside 33 West 56th Street on 1 January 1933.
• • Author and farmer Louis Bromfield had a more serene death, at age 60, on 18 March 1956.
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Mae West: Clothes Fall

MAE WEST — — surely deserving of a sonnet and the dignity of iambic pentameter — — turned up in a line of free verse penned by Ann Carter.
• • The reigning poetess of Carroll County, Arkansas has a slim new anthology out: Sweetness: Collected Poems 1974-2009. Here's a brief excerpt with a moonstruck metaphor:
• • • • Since I swore off romance, the full moon rise
• • • • Is tonight's big event, a celestial floor show
• • • • Where a Mae West moon shoulders out
• • • • In iridescent orange and then lets those clothes
• • • • Fall for the moon white skin she's in.
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• • In England, today is "Boxing Day" — — no relation to the boxers Mae dated. However, we think pro boxers deserve their own commemorative date.
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Mae West: Potawatomi

Imagine having MAE WEST pose with you on New Year's Eve?
• • Guests at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino in downtown Milwaukee will be able to stop by one of two photo booths — — in Wild Earth and the Grand Lobby — — between 7 p.m. and 1 a.m. to get a complimentary picture on 31 December 2009.
• • "At each booth, there will be dashing men and glamorous women to get in the picture with you," a spokesman said.
• • Throughout the evening, guests will have a chance to mix and mingle with celebrity impersonators including Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, Groucho Marx and W.C. Fields.
• • Guests will receive a top hat and horn to ring in 2010.
• • WHERE: Potawatomi Bingo Casino: 1721 West Canal Street, Milwaukee, WI 53233-2662; T 414-645-6888. Tell them the MAE WEST Blog tipped you off.
• • Have a very Merry Christmas!
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Mae West: The Big D

MAE WEST and diamonds were almost synonymous even before the creation of her most memorable character: Diamond Lil. ''I hadn't started out to collect diamonds, '' she said, ''but somehow they piled up on me.'' The onstage Diamond Lil was a singer in a Bowery saloon of the 1890's — — a bad girl with a good heart, who murdered her girlfriend, wrecked a Salvation Army hall, and sang ''Frankie and Johnny,'' wrote The New York Times [on 23 November 1980].
• • Jewelry and Christmas go together as nicely as red goes with green on holiday decorations. If you are hoping that Santa scatters some glitter around your tree, filling your New Year with sparkle plenty, then here are some precious gem quotes to meditate on.
• • "Diamonds is my career!" — — from "Diamond Lil" by Mae West
• • "What shall I wear? ... God! But he's swell. What about my diamonds? Yes, I'll wear them, too. What will he say about the diamonds? But, no, he won't ask. He'll just think and that's what I want him to do — — think!" — — from "The Constant Sinner" by Mae West
• • I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond. — — Mae West
• • No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. — — Mae West
• • "She has more ice than a case of champagne. You can signal ships when you're hauling that kind of jewelry!" — — from "Courting Mae West"
• • Jewelry takes people’s minds off your wrinkles. — — Sonja Henie
• • Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond. — — Kahlil Gibran
• • This diamond has so many carats it’s almost a turnip. — — Richard Burton
• • I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever. — — Anita Loo
• • "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" — — a song written by Jule Styne and Leo Robin
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Mae West: Wolverhampton

The artist who helped create the cover for the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band — — which featured MAE WEST — — is having an exhibition of additional works inspired by The Empress of Sex.
• • Once based in London (while married to the painter Peter Blake), and now a resident of Sundance, Utah, Jann Haworth has a show currently at Wolverhampton Art Gallery — — her first in the UK since 1972. On display are her creations from back in the 1960s as well as more recent work.
• • According to British-based Terry Grimley, her father’s work in Hollywood must have been a direct influence on Haworth, as was the 1960s taste for old-fashioned glamour, often characterised as kitsch. These threads (literally) come together in pieces like Mae West Dressing Table (1965) and the triple portrait relief of Mae West, Shirley Temple and W C Fields (1967). ...
• • Grimley writes: Actually there is not always a great deal that immediately distinguishes the early work from the latest. Jann Haworth’s figures and objects are stitched together from a range of materials including canvas, kapok, and vinyl, and the introduction to the exhibition makes much of the feminine character of her materials and techniques. Her Cowboy from 1963-64 — — a life-size figure in white, leaning against the wall with his hat pulled down over his eyes — — is about as realistic and life-like as her figures get. When the sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi saw it he suggested she cast it in bronze, but she preferred to stick to “a female language to which the male students didn’t have access.” Haworth has described the domestic media adopted by some female artists as having a “B-movie” relationship to the traditional media of fine art. ...
• • The full title of Grimley's art review is below to help you find out more about the exhibit in England at Wolverhampton Art Gallery until 10 April 2010.
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• • Article: "Birmingham Art: Jann Hawarth's unique view of the world at Wolverhampton Art Gallery"
• • BY: Terry Grimley | Life & Leisure columnist
• • Published by: The Birmingham Post — — www.birminghampost.net
• • Published on: 24 December 2009
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Mae West: NSW

MAE WEST entertained down under this week.
• • According to Fergus Shiel in the Brisbane Times: The connecting of comedians across generations according to a theme — tonight [i.e., on Monday, 21 December 2009] it's funny folk from Mae West to Richard Pryor and Peter Griffin, the Family Guy, smashing social boundaries — feels forced to me. Still, how could you not enjoy a reprise of their best moments and best lines, including this gem from Mae West: "I used to be Snow White but I drifted."
• • "Make 'Em Laugh" — — ABC1, 9.35pm [Australia].
• • Michael Kantor is the director, producer, and co-writer of "Make 'Em Laugh," which was broadcast awhile back in the United States.
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Mae West: December Dollars

It was December 1935, the height of the Great Depression, and newspapers began posting the annual earnings of Americans — — such as MAE WEST — — who had earned over $15,000. Only about 18,000 Americans had a salary that topped $15,000 during the mid-1930s. Publishing mogul William Randolph Hearst received half-a-million that year. Mae was right behind her nemesis with salary checks totaling $339,166.65 during the same period.
• • Obviously, Hollywood's talented and unstoppable doll was bringing in top dollars at a time when breadlines and soup kitchens were a common sight across this nation. However, "Hundreds of corporation officials were revealed as making as much salary in one year as most men dream of accumulating in a lifetime of work," noted The New York Times, quoting figures furnished by the U.S. Treasury Department. "Salaries of $100,000 and more were not rare."
• • Financially speaking, Mae West outpaced her movieland peers. Dozens of salaries are memorialized in this lengthy year-end report. Here are a few.
• • Bing Crosby, actor — — $104,449 — — in addition to $88,499 he earned as a crooner from Crosby Productions, Inc.
• • W.C. Fields, actor — — $155,083.
• • Marlene Dietrich, actress — — $145,000.
• • Charlie Chaplin, actor — — $143,000.
• • William LeBaron, producer — — $114,711.
• • Adolph Zukor, Paramount Pictures Distributing Co. — — $52,193.
• • Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse — — $51,500.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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