Thursday, September 10, 2009

Mae West: Culpeper, Virginia

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Yes, Virginia, there really was an actress who wrote her own material and tonight you can see MAE WEST for free — — on Thursday, 10 Septemb...
Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Mae West: Colette, Caron, Cukor

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MAE WEST , Colette noted in a 1938 publication, had the confidence to create an unapologetic majority-of-one presence on the silver screen —...
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Mae West: Garden State

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MAE WEST and Cary Grant will delight film buffs in The Garden State next month. • • As part of Monmouth County Library's popular series...
Monday, September 07, 2009

Mae West: Lil Thrills

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Calendar girl MAE WEST was noted in Playbill 's long-running feature: "Today In Theatre History: September 7." • • Theatre c...
Sunday, September 06, 2009

Mae West: Easy Rider

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MAE WEST adored ragtime. She once told an interviewer about grooving very early to "the black man's sound." Whether she was im...
Saturday, September 05, 2009

Mae West: Original Brinkley Girl

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Nineteen-year-old MAE WEST claimed to be " The Original Brinkley Girl ." • • During 1912-13, when Mae was still trying to find h...
Friday, September 04, 2009

Mae West: Decade-ism?

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MAE WEST popped up between the sheets of The London Review of Books , whose critics seem to be so derailed by deadlines that they never hea...
Thursday, September 03, 2009

Mae West: Making Faces

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MAE WEST posed for George Hurrell. "She'd drop her clothes at the drop of a hat," the Tinseltown photographer once told John ...
Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Mae West: Nashville Nighty

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An article in The Tennessean mentioned MAE WEST 's long ago sojourn in The Volunteer State. • • It was a booking in the venerable Ryman...
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Mae West: Cigarette me, Cossack!

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MAE WEST was woven into the wool within London's Times as the editors whiled away one column on Collins’s latest dictionary, which loo...
Monday, August 31, 2009

Mae West: Dutch Ducked

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MAE WEST 's pal Texas Guinan got on the wrong side of Arthur Flegenheimer, better known as "Dutch Schultz" [6 August 1902 — 24...
Sunday, August 30, 2009

Mae West: A Painful Extraction

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Recently, MAE WES T was quoted in The Times of India , Washington Post , Forbes , and so on. • • None of these mentions was even one-hundre...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Mae West: Neighbors in Lovenests

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Marion Davies’s neighbors included MAE WEST , Louis B. Mayer, Samuel Goldwyn, Cary Grant, and J. Paul Getty — — some of whom would walk over...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Mae West: Hoosier Hoedown

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It's been years since MAE WEST toured the midwest so happy Hoosiers are hand-clapping about her revisiting next month. • • The upcoming...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Mae West: Suddenly Sam

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Since MAE WEST enjoyed a long association working for the Shubert brothers, it would be remiss not to give Sam his due on this date. • • Bo...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Mae West: Duke & Dutch at Do Drop

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There was sufficient enthusiasm over a new musical featuring MAE WEST and Duke Ellington to lure trendy Harlemites haloed by extravagant ha...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Mae West: Hebrew Temptress

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Not known for high culture, MAE WEST deliberately decided to throw her audience more than a few curves when she performed a shortened versi...
Monday, August 24, 2009

Mae West: B for Bromfield

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Right after MAE WEST stole the show — — with her sassy cameo in " Night After Night " — — the reviews came in, banging the drum ...
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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Mae West: August Attire

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Born under the sign of Leo the lion, MAE WEST (birthdate: 17 August 1893) felt empowered by her untamed, untranslatable, creative roar — —...