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On Thursday, 8 November 1978, when MAE WEST was 80 years old, syndicated columnist Nancy Anderson's interview with the screen legend ran. Rattled off from Mae's point-of-view and with no fact-checking, the text is rather cheeky. Let's enjoy it together. This is Part 2.
• • "Mae West Hasn't Aged A Day Since She Was 30 Years Old" • •
• • Written by Nancy Anderson — — Copley News Service
• • Pictures with nudity are not doing well • •
• • Nancy Anderson added: Pictures aren’t doing that well today, Mae continues, because "they use nudity and all this stuff too much. They don’t have good stories. And so the producers throw in naked bodies and think they will save their pictures — — which they won’t.”
• • The ever-vigorous Miss West began her career at the age of 8 performing in dramatic stock [sic] and, by the time she was 17, she was a headliner in vaudeville and revues [sic].
• • According to Mae's story about her past, the famous Schuberts, impressed by her obvious box-office power, decided to star her in a play and offered several vehicles for her consideration, but none, Mae says, was suitable.
• • Mother made a suggestion • • . . .
• • This was Part 2. We will continue tomorrow with Part 3.
• • Source: Article written by Nancy Anderson for Copley News Service; syndicated on Thursday, 8 November 1978.
• • On Friday, 28 June 1946 • •
• • Mae West was starring in "Come On Up" at Cass Theatre in Detroit on Friday, 28 June 1946. The Playgoer's cover featured a beautiful portrait of Mae West perched on a divan wearing a beautiful gown with a floral pattern.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Everyone, it seems, either loved or hated Mae West.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "She who laughs lasts."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A Westchester County paper mentioned Mae West.
• • Mae West, whose list of “tall, dark and handsomes” has been swelling from picture to picture, attains her all time record in her new Paramount film, “Goin’ to Town,” playing at RKO Proctor’s, Mount Vernon, five days, Saturday to Wednesday, June 29, June 30, July 1, July 2, July 3.
• • Seven “leading men” are Miss West’s total in the new picture, and not one of them has ever acted with her before. Paul Cavanagh heads the list as the man Miss West really loves, with Ivan Lebedeff, Tito Coral, Fred Kohler, Sr., Monroe Owsley, Gilbert Emery and Grant Withers, running him close seconds. ...
• • Source: Review in Bronxville Press (Bronxville, NY); published on Friday, 28 June 1935
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 12th anniversary • •
• • Thank
you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these
past eleven years. The other day we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a
milestone recently when we completed 3,700 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started ten years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3735th blog post.
Unlike many blogs, which draw
upon
reprinted
content
from
a
newspaper
or
a
magazine
and/
or
summaries,
links,
or
photos,
the
mainstay
of
this
blog
is
its
fresh
material
focused
on
the
life
and
career
of
Mae
West,
herself
an
American
original.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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• • Photo: • • Mae West • • in 1935 • •
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On Thursday, 8 November 1978, when MAE WEST was 80 years old, syndicated columnist Nancy Anderson's interview with the screen legend ran. Rattled off from Mae's point-of-view and with no fact-checking, the text is rather cheeky. Let's enjoy it together. This is Part 1.
• • "Mae West Hasn't Aged A Day Since She Was 30 Years Old" • •
• • Written by Nancy Anderson — — Copley News Service
• • Hollywood — — Mae West who brought sex to Broadway in more ways than one (she made her bow on the Great White Way in a play called “Sex” [sic], thinks most new sex-ploitation films are neither entertaining nor artistic and that Linda Lovelace should be barred from acting “for the dignity of the profession.”
• • Miss West, who is 80 years old, looks ageless and who merrily claims to be “twenty-sex,” has never peeled in a single scene nor uttered a smutty word — — though she’s epitomized sensuality so successfully that her films literally saved the Paramount theater chain.
• • “I saved 1,700 theaters,” Miss West says crisply. “Paramount was going to have to sell them to MGM. But since my pictures made so much money, the studio was able to keep them.”
• • Pictures with nudity are not doing well • • . . .
• • This was Part 1. We will continue tomorrow with Part 2.
• • Source: Article written by Nancy Anderson for Copley News Service; syndicated on Thursday, 8 November 1978.
• • On Wednesday, 27 June 1928 • •
• • Critic Stark Young wrote an article called "Diamond Lil" for the New Republic. It was published on Wednesday, 27 June 1928.
• • On Sunday, 27 June 1943 • •
• • For the L.A. Times, Philip K. Scheuer wrote an article "Town Called Hollywood: Mae West to Dance in Next." His lengthy newspaper feature ran on Sunday, 27 June 1943.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West has just opened in "Diamond Lil" in Manchester, England.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "The time to worry is when they stop talking about you."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A California daily mentioned Mae West.
• • Link Quarberg, beating the drums for 'My Little Chickadee,' arranged for Frank Buchman, head of 'Moral Rearmament,' to discuss ways and means of world peace in Mae West's apartment. Link brought along a photographer steered Mae and Buchman toward the piano, and got a picture of the pair with a nude statue and picture of Mae in the background. It almost ruined Buchman [sic]. . . .
• • Source: Item in San Bernardino Sun; published on Saturday, 23 September 1950
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 12th anniversary • •
• • Thank
you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these
past eleven years. The other day we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a
milestone recently when we completed 3,700 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started ten years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3734th blog post.
Unlike many blogs, which draw
upon
reprinted
content
from
a
newspaper
or
a
magazine
and/
or
summaries,
links,
or
photos,
the
mainstay
of
this
blog
is
its
fresh
material
focused
on
the
life
and
career
of
Mae
West,
herself
an
American
original.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
________
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Mae West
• • Photo: • • Mae West • • in 1928 • •
• • Feed — — http://feeds2.feedburner.com/MaeWest
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