Friday, June 12, 2009

Mae West: Minnesota

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Handsome men in Minnesota are still calling your name, MAE WEST . • • Veteran lit-critic Dave Wood is feeling a might cranky, though. An...
Thursday, June 11, 2009

Mae West: Jack Howard

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An old vaudevillian who worked for years with MAE WEST has escaped attention. Until now. • • Written by and starring Mae in the title ro...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Mae West: Uncredited

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During the Prohibition Era, this personable actress worked with MAE WEST and garned high praise from many film critics — — and yet she was ...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Mae West: Gorilla Jones

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William Landon Jones enjoyed a close friendship with MAE WEST for 50 years. • • Born in Memphis, Tennessee on 12 May 1906, he was known in...
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Monday, June 08, 2009

Mae West: Woody Eney

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Woody Eney appeared in a TV bio-pic about MAE WEST . • • Born in Canberra, Australia during the month of June — — on 8 June 1937 — — Wo...
Sunday, June 07, 2009

Mae West: James Donlan

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James Donlan appeared in one cinema classic with MAE WEST . • • Born in San Francisco on 23 July 1888, James Donlan dove into the motion p...
Saturday, June 06, 2009

Mae West: Read All Over

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Books about MAE WEST , revivals of her plays, reverberations of her witticisms, impersonations — — the public dialogue about the Brooklyn bo...
Friday, June 05, 2009

Mae West: Imitated

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She's 77, still unsinkable, and she's doing an imitation of MAE WEST in a cabaret show in Manhattan not far from where the Empress ...
Thursday, June 04, 2009

Mae West: Hijinks Jenkins

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MAE WEST met many characters — — and more than a few were men of the cloth. • • According to old newsprint, Leroy Jenkins, who had charmed...
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Mae West: Bernie from the Bronx

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Handsome Tony Curtis was in one motion picture with MAE WEST . • • If you saw " Sextette ," perhaps you remember the scene when ne...
Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Mae West: June 1919

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Ninety years ago, in June 1919, MAE WEST was onstage in a tuneful Broadway hit doing an odd thing — — playing a manhunter who can't land...
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Monday, June 01, 2009

Mae West: Countess

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It is always nice to notice new television personalities who credit MAE WEST with being an inspiration. • • The Brooklyn bombshell did not...
Sunday, May 31, 2009

Mae West: Punchy

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It's quite tempting to memorialize one or two of the famous palookas whose good looks and midnight maneuvers (temporarily) knocked out M...
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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Mae West: John Kobal

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In many ways, John Kobal's Hollywood career caught fire thanks to MAE WEST . • • Years ago, one interviewer whipped up this creamy prol...
Friday, May 29, 2009

Mae West: Subversions

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Some exceedingly peculiar artists were fascinated by MAE WEST — — including Ray Johnson. • • During the 1950s, Ray Johnson began using imag...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Mae West: Orangeville

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A Canadian columnist mentioned MAE WEST — — along with a haunting, daunting detail: it will be the 100th anniversary soon of the Roaring Tw...

Mae West: Merry May

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It was in May 1927 that MAE WEST returned to the Women's Workhouse on Welfare [currently renamed Roosevelt] Island. • • This time, how...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Mae West: Bristol Stomp

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The British actor MAE WEST put on the map in her motion picture classic " She Done Him Wrong " [1933] was encountered at a footba...