Saturday, July 14, 2007

Mae West: 50 Years Ago

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Fifty years ago, The MAE WEST Revue closed at the Sahara Hotel in 1957. • • In 1954, at the age of 61, the former vaudevillian launched an ...
Friday, July 13, 2007

Mae West: July 1920

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MAE WEST and the Italian accordionist Guido Deiro made beautiful music together for several years in variety. Her marriage to the Mediterr...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

Mae West: Nun in California

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Can you picture MAE WEST as a nun? • • Writers Bruce W. Gilray and Richard T. Witter could. Borrowing liberally from Agatha Christie's ...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Mae West: Coverage

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Then as now, magazines use celebrities to sell copies, for example, Motion Picture [July 1933 issue] ran with this cover story about MAE W...
Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Mae West: Louis Armstrong

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At Owney Madden's Cotton Club, MAE WEST met a talented musician: Louis Armstrong. • • Armstrong comes to mind in the month of July beca...
Monday, July 09, 2007

Mae West: Harvey F. Thew

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Let's not forget Harvey Francis Thew who was born in the month of July — — and worked on a famous screenplay with MAE WEST . • • Born ...
Sunday, July 08, 2007

Mae West: Viva Vegas!

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The Las Vegas Sun has announced that MAE WEST will return to their torrid city this week when a local library's summer film fest focus...
Saturday, July 07, 2007

Mae West: Laslo Karolny

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It's time to wish MAE WEST 's co-star Ringo Starr a happy birthday. • • Born in the month of July — on 7 July 1940 — in Liverpool,...
Friday, July 06, 2007

Mae West: Afloat

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His most famous invention was the MAE WEST vest. • • Born in the month of July — on 24 July 1915 — in Visalia, California, Andrew J. Toti b...
Thursday, July 05, 2007

Mae West: Palmed Off

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The Palm Theatre in San Mateo, California once boasted of coming attractions such as MAE WEST 's film " My Little Chickade e"...
Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Mae West: Liberty

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MAE WEST , always fighting City Hall and the censors, posed as Lady Liberty on a few occasions. • • In her 1934 film " Belle of the Nin...
Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Mae West: Dollface

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Some adults love "living dolls" and others prefer the empty-eyed, stick-it-on-a-bookshelf kind. • • Often MAE WEST 's figure —...
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Monday, July 02, 2007

Mae West: Hammerstein's

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In June 1914 Willie Hammerstein died — — and, oh, what an angel he had been to MAE WEST . In 1912 and 1913, Hammerstein booked the teenag...
Sunday, July 01, 2007

Mae West: Golden Days

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Subscribers to a local New York City newspaper, The Canarsie Courie r, have long enjoyed Brooklyn historian John Denton's columns — es...
Saturday, June 30, 2007

Mae West: Sketchy

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One of the many illustrators who drew MAE WEST was the New York Times contributor Al Hirschfeld, who was born in June [21 June 1903]. • • ...
Friday, June 29, 2007

Mae West: Timothy Shay Arthur

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MAE WEST was not even born yet when Timothy Shay Arthur died in 1885. But when she was a child, "Baby Mae" acted in a dramatized ...
Thursday, June 28, 2007

Mae West: Vox

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Recently, NPR asked listeners to describe the voice of MAE WEST and other personalities. • • One member of their audience likened the actre...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Mae West: Muralist

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The bedroom walls in Mae West 's Los Angeles apartment were decorated by George Quaintance, a tall, handsome blond artist who often incl...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Mae West: Hazel Scott

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Bouquets did not shower MAE WEST after her film " The Heat Is On " was released right before Christmas in December 1943. All the ...
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Monday, June 25, 2007

Mae West: Gene Austin

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MAE WEST utilized her friend Gene Austin's musical talents in her films " Belle of the Nineties " [1934]; " Klondike An...