Mae West: Projecting Sex

Was MAE WEST really misquoted? Let’s find out. This is Part 7 of eight sections.
• • 1930s sex symbol Mae West has been misquoted for decades, book reveals • •
• • definitely was not a one-man woman • •
• • Stephanie Nolasco wrote:  “But when they saw the film, they realized she’s hilarious… Mae was a very headstrong person and she knew her business. She wasn’t going to let people run over her… and she definitely was not a one-man woman.”
• • Stephanie Nolasco wrote: Mae West’s follow-up film, 1933’s “I’m No Angel,” became an even bigger sensation. The Los Angeles Times noted that after three more movies, West was earning the highest salary of any Hollywood star with $300,000 per picture and “an additional $100,000 for story or scenario.”
• • Stephanie Nolasco wrote:  And West was proud to project sex on her own terms. “That was her agenda,” said Vieira. “That was what she believed in. She thought it was good, it was healthy and she was going to do it.”
• • Stephanie Nolasco wrote:  Mae West flourished in Hollywood, but never forgot her roots.
• • “I lived like a man, in some ways” • • . . .
• • This article by Stephanie Nolasco will be concluded on the next post.
• • Source: Fox News; published on Wednesday, 4 September 2019.
• • On Saturday, 26 September 1931 in Billboard • •

• • About "The Constant Sinner," Jack Mehler wrote that "it has the makings of a good money show, both for Miss West and the Shuberts who are reported in on it." Mehler's entire review was published in Billboard's issue dated for Saturday, 26 September 1931.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West was screaming in her excitement at the Friday night fights.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I'm for the masses and the masses are, it seems, all for Diamond Lil."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Daily Variety mentioned Mae West.
• • That Mae West 'marriage' report from Milwaukee to effect that she wed one Frank Wallace while playing In vaudeville there back in 1911, had all the New York city desks and news syndicates scouring the town for past info.
• • All wanted data on Miss West's age, as well as the marriage in the belief that one would prove the other.
• • Jim Timony rushed into town. …
• • Source: Variety; published on Wednesday, 24 April 1935
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • • 
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — — 
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/

• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 15th anniversary • •  

• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fifteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,300 blog posts. Wow!  

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4310th 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: Too Vulgar

Was MAE WEST really misquoted? Let’s find out. This is Part 6 of eight sections.
• • 1930s sex symbol Mae West has been misquoted for decades, book reveals • •
• • one of Hollywood’s biggest sex symbols • •
• • Stephanie Nolasco wrote:  Not only did “She Done Him Wrong” broke box office records in the United States, but it drew audiences throughout the world and saved Paramount from bankruptcy.
• • Stephanie Nolasco wrote:  Famous for her zany catch-phrases and double entendres, the vaudeville actress became known as one of Hollywood’s biggest sex symbols in the 1920s and 1930s.
• • Stephanie Nolasco wrote:  “I would say 80 percent of that character is her,” Vieira noted. “Initially people thought those movie posters were awful, too vulgar.”
• • Mae definitely was not a one-man woman • • . . .  
• • This article by Stephanie Nolasco will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Fox News; published on Wednesday, 4 September 2019.
• • On Tuesday, 25 September 1934 in Variety • •
• • A lengthy review of "Belle of the Nineties" appeared in Variety on this date.
• • Abel wrote: "Belle of the Nineties" is a little of everything. Even "St. Louis Blues" and "Memphis Blues" are in it — — she did "Frankie and Johnny" in "Diamond Lil."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •

• • The Motion Picture Hall of Fame: And do not forget the Hollywood stars who go down to this building from time to time. Mae West, Binnie Barnes, Edward Arnold, Gloria Swanson, Herbert Marshall, Buck Jones, Evelyn Venable, Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Johnny Mack Brown, Isabel Jewell, . . .
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Well, I've always had to battle for my rights."
• • Mae West said: "I'm very boring in real life. So I made up the walk and the talk."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Modern Screen mentioned Mae West.
• • Dareos, famous Hollywood seer, gives his annual forecast • • 
• • As Told to Harry Lan • •
• • Other charts into which Dareos has peered for Modern Screen give him less clear, less definite pictures.
• • Dareos' predictions carry the promise of continued success and unmarred future for Michael Whalen, June Lang, Gladys Swarthout, Jimmy Stewart, Gladys George, Mae West, Fred MacMurray, Bing Crosby, and Bette Davis.
• • For other movie personalities, Dareos sees unhappiness and sorrow that will mar a year otherwise fairly tranquil. …
• • Source: Modern Screen; published in the issue dated for February 1937
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • • 
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — — 
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/

• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 15th anniversary • •  

• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fifteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,300 blog posts. Wow!  

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4309th 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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