Mae West: Too Wrapped Up

In a revealing 1933 interview with Gladys Hall, MAE WEST talks about being madly in love (only once), the first man who gave her a diamond, and how love affairs (for her) were transactional. Was Mae being truthful? Did Mae believe in her own hard-hearted advice? This is Part 6 of 17 segments.
• • Mae West's Advice to Young Girls in Love by Gladys Hall • •
• • Mae West: Didn't want to have a “pack of kids” • •
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West said, "I knew I'd marry him if we kept on seeing each other, having our dates, talking to each other. Then I'd have a pack of kids with him. But I don't want any kids. I don't now and I didn't then. But I knew I'd get wrapped up in him and his ambitions and all that. I'd be lost in the shuffle. I thought, 'Uh-uh! Not for me!' I went to Chicago to get away from him and I stayed there for two years — — two years that pretty nearly finished me,” Mae added.

• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West said, "I lost weight. I had big circles under my eyes. I looked like the wrath of God. Night after night, I'd sit with my hand on the telephone, ready to call Long Distance, to give his number, just to hear his voice again."
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West emphasized, "I had to fight this. And I did. I fought the temptation every night of those two years. Well, I'm telling you now, it nearly wrecked me.”
• • Mae West: “Loving this man nearly wrecked my life.” • • ... 
• • To be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Movie Classic; issue dated for August 1933.
• • On Saturday, 14 May 1927 in Collier's • •
• • After Mae's arrest in 1927, Booth Tarkington was commissioned to write an article — — and "When Is It Dirt?" [published in Collier's, The National Weekly, on Saturday, 14 May 1927] discussed the issue of censorship and government intervention.
• • An author himself, Tarkington never champions the rights of the censors, of course, in his thoughtful essay.  Though Mae's name is not mentioned in his piece, the magazine page was designed around a huge photo of Mae, looking very annoyed, in court.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • There were many promotional items offered anytime a Mae West motion picture was released. Newspaper reporters and theatre managers would receive certain items. There were also specialty goodies for the Mae West fan club members.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I have never wanted to flaunt my romances in public."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on a Philadelphia cab driver mentioned Mae West.
• • "A Cab Driver's View of People" • •
• • Louis Antosh wrote: Cab driver Vincent Scullin has been called into the city of Philadelphia on several occasions. On one of these, a man stopped him outside the old Ritz Hotel back in the 1940s and asked to use his cab.  But I'll ask you please not to smoke while Miss West is in the cab, said the man.
• • Louis Antosh wrote: Vincent Scullin turned his head to the right and recalled his thoughts back then. Could it be Mae West? But she always carries those long cigarette holders in the movies. Then the hotel door opens and out walks Mae West! And brother let me tell you she looked like a million bucks. White fur coat and dark glasses. Just between you and me and the gatepost. Whoo whoo! ...
• • Source: Delaware County Daily Times, printed on page 1; published on Saturday, 13 May 1967
• • 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 16th 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 4,700 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,734th 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.

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Mae West: Nuts about Him

In a revealing 1933 interview with Gladys Hall, MAE WEST talks about being madly in love (only once), the first man who gave her a diamond, and how love affairs (for her) were transactional. Was Mae being truthful? Did Mae believe in her own hard-hearted advice? This is Part 5 of 17 segments.
• • Mae West's Advice to Young Girls in Love by Gladys Hall • •
• • Mae West: “I was crazy about that man...” • •
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West  said, “And there's only one love like that in any woman's lifetime. I was crazy about that man. I was nuts about him. I was only about sixteen or seventeen — — but, say, I was old for my age. Developed. Everything. It hit me hard. I was so jealous of him, I felt sore all over when I saw him look at another girl.”

• • Mae's mother didn't like him • •
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West said, "My mother didn't like him — — not for me. And I thought a lot of my mother. I got to thinking about it, about him and me. And I says to myself, 'If you keep on like this, there won't be any Mae West.' There wouldn't have been, either."
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West continued, "And I felt I was in love with myself even then. I had a lot of ambition. But if you think my ambition and my love for that man didn't go into the arena and fight until they were bloody, you're crazy.”
• • Mae didn't want a “pack of kids” • • ...
• • To be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Movie Classic; issue dated for August 1933.
• • On Sunday, 13 May 1956 • •
• • Blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield [1933 — 1967] encountered the very handsome Mr. Universe 1956 Miklos (Mickey) Hargitay on 13 May 1956, while attending a performance of the "Mae West Revue" at the Latin Quarter night club in Manhattan.
• • Twenty months later, Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay wed on 13 January 1958. They had three children and, alas, would divorce in 1964.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West has announced that she will be getting an armored limo to protect Jim Timony and herself.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I'd never hesitate to admit I had a husband if I had one, but I haven't."    
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A newspaper mentioned Mae West.
• • Few seem to know that a war is going on between Bolivian and Paraguayan troops, there not being an upside-down stomach or a Mae West ex-husband in the lot.  . . .
• • Source: Healdsburg Tribune (California); published on Thursday, 9 May 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 16th 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 4,700 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,733rd 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.

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Mae West: How I Get Men

In a revealing 1933 interview with Gladys Hall, MAE WEST talks about being madly in love (only once), the first man who gave her a diamond, and how love affairs (for her) were transactional. Was Mae being truthful? Did Mae believe in her own hard-hearted advice? This is Part 4 of 17 segments.
• • Mae West's Advice to Young Girls in Love by Gladys Hall • •
• • Mae West: Be Crazy About Yourselves • •
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West said,"I get my man because I'm in love with myself. I'm crazy about myself. I'm more interested in myself and my own ambitions than I am in anyone else. That sets a high value on me, see? If I had to give advice to young girls on how to get their men, that'd be the first thing I'd tell 'em: “Be crazy about yourselves.” That’s one way.

• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West said,"Another way is to make ‘em give till it hurts. Men have no use for a woman who doesn't get things out of them. Not cheap things, either,” added Mae.
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West  said, "Here’s how I started, though — — by falling in love. And I do mean LOVE.”
• • Mae West: “I was crazy about that man” • • ...
• • To be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Movie Classic; issue dated for August 1933.
• • On Wednesday, 12 May 1971 • •
• • On Wednesday, 12 May 1971 Mae West, UCLA’s Woman of the Century, spoke to students after a screening of her 1933 classic movie “I’m No Angel.”
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West has now reduced 64 [sic] pounds.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "If I need an idea for a picture, I say, ‘Forces, Forces, I need some good dialogue so please help me out here.'"
• • Quote, Unquote • •u
• • An article on Rhode Island theatre mentioned Mae West.
• • History of Theater-by-the-Sea, Act II: The golden age of the 1950s • •
• • Rhode Island reporter Betty J. Cotter wrote: The stars came to Matunuck for weekly runs, just long enough to make an impression on the populace — the moody Marlon Brando, the imperious Mae West, the perky Carol Channing. Matunuck locals traded star sightings. Audiences ate it up. ...
• • Betty J. Cotter wrote: The 1952 season also featured Mae West in a comedy called “Come on Up — Ring Twice.”
• • Betty J. Cotter wrote: “The budget was a far cry from the good old days, and the whole cast traveled in a caravan of motor cars,” Patrick Byrne writes in his book, “Double Entendre: The Parallel Lives of Mae West and Rae Bourbon.” Matunuck audiences didn’t mind — the show sold out. ...
• • Source: The Providence Journal; published on Thursday, 9 July 2020
• • 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 16th 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 4,700 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,732nd 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.

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Mae West: Turned Cuh-razy

In a revealing 1933 interview with Gladys Hall, MAE WEST talks about being madly in love (only once), the first man who gave her a diamond, and how love affairs (for her) were transactional. Was Mae being truthful? Did Mae believe in her own hard-hearted advice? This is Part 3 of 17 segments.
• • Mae West's Advice to Young Girls in Love by Gladys Hall • •
• • Mae West: Just Being Herself • •

• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West began to be cuh-razy about the boys when she was still in rompers in Brooklyn. The neighbors talked about her. Her father raised the roof about her.
• • Gladys Hall wrote: "But," said Mae, "my mother understood me. She'd tell 'em, 'Mae likes to play with boys better than with girls. What about it?’”
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae continued, "That was enough for me. I used  to hug 'em and kiss 'em. Those were the days when I thought a woman had to do the givin', not the takin’.”
• • Gladys Hall wrote: "But," added Mae, “it ain't that way now. I know different.”
• • Mae West: Be Crazy About Yourselves • • . . .
• • To be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Movie Classic; issue dated for August 1933.
• • On Saturday, 11 May 1935 • •
• • Movie critic Andre Sennwald offered his review of "Goin' to Town," starring Mae West, to the readers of The New York Times on page 21 on Saturday, 11 May 1935.
• • On Friday, 10 May 1935, this new motion picture opened in Mae's hometown at the New York Paramount.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West, that eminent psychologist, is about to do a series titled "Mae West Tells All About Love," in which the star of stage and screen will answer letters from video viewers with problems of the heart.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I gave up a lot. I love kids but I never had any. Never let myself eat too much. That might have been fun, once in awhile. Still I can't regret anything really."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on an annual festival in Alabama mentioned Mae West.
• • "Annual festival seeks to keep memory of cowboy movie hero alive" • •
• • Peggy Ussery  wrote: Dothan, Alabama native Johnny Mack Brown [1904 — 1974] was 23 in 1927 when he was cast in his first motion picture. Seven years later, the handsome six-foot-one actor played the role of Brooks Claybourne in "Belle of the Nineties" [1934], starring Mae West in the title role. ...
• • Source: Dothan Eagle; posted on Wednesday, 11 May 2011
• • 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 16th 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 4,700 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,731st 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.

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Mae West: Unless Aroused

In a revealing 1933 interview with Gladys Hall, MAE WEST talks about being madly in love (only once), the first man who gave her a diamond, and how love affairs (for her) were transactional. Was Mae being truthful? Did Mae believe in her own hard-hearted advice? This is Part 2 of 17 segments.
• • Mae West's Advice to Young Girls in Love by Gladys Hall • •

• • Mae West: Unless Aroused • •
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae never sits upright unless aroused; she slouches. She was wearing a slinky black crepe dress, a short white fur coat with enormously puffed sleeves, a white hat on her blonde hair, a bit of white veil, and several "rocks" (diamonds, to you) the size of golf balls on fingers and bosom.
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae reminded me of a sleek cat: eyes half-closed, teeth slightly bared, indolent, insolent and liable to sudden fits of intense and ferocious life.
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West is one hundred percent what she is. She does little or no acting [sic] on stage or screen. She is being herself. She couldn't be anything else. She wouldn't want to be.
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West says she loves herself.
• • Mae West: Just Being Herself • • . . .
• • To be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Movie Classic; issue dated for August 1933.
• • On Friday, 10 May 1935 in NYC • •
• • On Friday, 10 May 1935, "Goin' to Town" opened in Mae West's hometown at the New York Paramount.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • "Mae West Film Big in L.A." • •
• • West Coast Bureau of The Film Daily, Los Angeles — Mae West in "Goin' to Town" established an opening day record at the Paramount. First day's receipts exceeded the previous record by $100.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "The prison doors closed behind me. That's my story."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The United Feature Syndicate discussed Mae West.
• • "Mae Sees Ghosts" • •

• • Hollywood — James Bacon wrote: Spent an afternoon with one of my favorite living legends Mae West. First time I ever visited Mae that we didn't conduct the interview in her bedroom with the mirrored ceilings and walls.
• • James Bacon added: It's not that we're both getting older. Her sister Beverly just happened to be in there, reading a book.
• • James Bacon continued: Mae is ageless.  She looks as if she invented sex yesterday, not in the 1920s. It was Mae who once observed that she was pure as the driven snow, however, she added "Then I drifted."  ...
• • James Bacon continued: Mae told me she had friends, long dead, who come to visit her right in her bedroom. She said, "I believe there is a hereafter."  ...
• • Source: syndicated Hollywood column rpt in The Milwaukee Journal; published on Saturday, 28 April 1973
• • 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 16th 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 4,700 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,730th 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.

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Mae West: How to Get Men

In a revealing 1933 interview with Gladys Hall, MAE WEST talks about being madly in love (only once), the first man who gave her a diamond, and how love affairs (for her) were transactional. Was Mae being truthful? Did Mae believe in her own hard-hearted advice? This is Part 1 of 17 segments.
• • Mae West's Advice to Young Girls in Love by Gladys Hall • •  
• • Gladys Hall wrote: If there is anyone who ought to be able to tell girls how to "get their men” it's Mae. Men just naturally "go West." They'd like to know her better.
• • Gladys Hall wrote: And how does Mae interest them – and hold their interest? She's not afraid to tell you!

• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West slouched down in a chair in her dressing room on the Paramount lot and told me how she gets her man — — or men. She advised young girls how to do likewise.
• • Gladys Hall wrote: She told me how she gets her diamonds. She told me about her romances. She told me about "The One Love" of her life – the first and the last time she was ever really in love. And what it did to her.
• • Mae West: Unless Aroused • • . . .
• • To be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Movie Classic; issue dated for August 1933.
• • On Monday, 7 May 1934 • •
• • On Monday, 7 May 1934 Mae West recorded "Troubled Waters."  This collaboration between New York City lyricist Sam Coslow and composer Arthur Johnson was created expressly for the motion picture "Belle of the Nineties." Backed by Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, Mae archived her performance in the recording studio.
• • On Friday, 7 May 1943 • •
• • Matrimony and mayhaps! Mae West moved on from her marital missteps with vaudevillian Frank Wallace in 1911. However, the final divorce decree took much longer. The marriage was legally dissolved on Friday, 7 May 1943.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The life-size lobby cut-out of Mae West featuring flaps that patrons could lift to see what was worn below — well, this got killed, but fast.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "So the men rule the world and  the women rule the men — — though they don't know it."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on a theft mentioned Mae West.
• • Lisa Rein wrote: A colorful radio is displayed on nearly every horizontal surface. Among them are a set that doubles as a humidor and another, called a “Mae West,” that has a design feature “you could put a brassiere on,” J. David Goldin said with a laugh.  . . .
• • Source: Article: "In National Archives thefts, a radio detective gets his man" written by Lisa Rein for the Washington Post; published on Wednesday, 2 May 2012
• • 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 16th 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 4,700 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,729th 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.

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Mae West: With One Hand

In 1942, when MAE WEST was feeling her Hollywood halo slipping, she decided to reinvent herself. The place to tell the entertainment world her intentions was the famous "Harrison in Hollywood" column, started by Paul Harrison, and now penned by Erskine Johnson.This is Part 5 of 5.
• • Mae West: Sees her next role as a Russian Ruler • •
• • Erskine Johnson wrote: And there's a movie based on the life of Catherine the Great. That's the film on which she's sinking her hopes.

• • Erskine Johnson wrote: She wrote it herself after a year and a half of research about the lady who once ruled Russia with one hand and a regiment of lovers with the other.
• • Erskine Johnson wrote: Catherine, you may recall, was quite a gal, and Mae has taken her apart and put her together again.  
• • Erskine Johnson wrote: Mae says that she even had some old Russian tales translated to discover things not generally known about the Empress. “And what things!" she says.
• • This was Part 5 of five segments. We hope you enjoyed it.
• • Source: Harrison in Hollywood column written by Erskine Johnson, Syndicated Columnist;  published on Thursday, 5 November 1942.
• • On Monday, 6 May 1935 in Time Magazine • •
• • Milwaukee clerk Myrtle Lorraine Sands, while helping to re-index official records in Wisconsin, chanced upon a marriage certificate showing that Mae West had married a fellow on 11 April 1911. The groom was Frank Wallace. Was that 1911 bride the Paramount Pictures movie star herself?
• • Already famous for her wiggling and shimmying, Mae tried every move to wriggle out of this tight spot by emphatically denying it all. However, "the great fact-finding machinery of the U.S. Press began to hum," according to the May 6th, 1935 issue of Time Magazine.
• • When New York reporters located the scrawny, unprepossessing vaudevillian, who was staying "in a theatrical hotel with his dancing partner, Trixie LeMae," Frank Wallace was quite happy to talk. He affirmed the marriage was real.
• • "The nerve of a brass monkey," was Mae West's response.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West is dickering with playwright Charlotte Frances for American stage rights of her play, “Sextette.”
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "It takes two to get one in trouble."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on Atlantic City, NJ  mentioned Mae West.
• • "Atlantic City Notes" • •
• • At the Savoy, the bill includes: Mae West, George Roland and company, Willie Weston, Rose and Ellis, John Geiger, the Flying Russells, Porter and Sullivan, and Herbert and Dennis.
• • The talking pictures will be heard at the Savoy next week. . . .
• • Source: The New York Clipper; published on Saturday, 5 April 1913
• • 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 16th 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 4,700 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,728th 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.

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Mae West: Ideas of Her Own

In 1942, when MAE WEST was feeling her Hollywood halo slipping, she decided to reinvent herself. The place to tell the entertainment world her intentions was the famous "Harrison in Hollywood" column, started by Paul Harrison, and now penned by Erskine Johnson.This is Part 4 of 5.
• • Mae West: Would be “washed up” • •
• • Erskine Johnson wrote:  Mae West continues, “The public got tired of it and I got tired of it. That's when I started turning down pictures. I knew I'd wash myself up but good if I went on playing the same old stuff. They said I was being difficult, temperamental. But I was only being smart. I had a couple of story ideas of my own."
• • A Spy and a Lady • •

• • Erskine Johnson wrote: But now Mae has found what she wants. There's a spy picture over at RKO written for her by Andrew Stone and Fred Jackson. A spy picture in which she plays the spy, goes to Berlin "to take care of Hitler," plays boogie-woogie music on the piano, wears modern clothes, and acts more or less like a lady.
• • Mae West: Eyeing up Russia • • ...
• • To be concluded tomorrow with the fifth segment.
• • Source: Harrison in Hollywood column written by Erskine Johnson, Syndicated Columnist;  published on Thursday, 5 November 1942.
• • On Saturday, 5 May 1934 • •
• • "Mae West Arrives" was the headline on page 11 in Queensland's Morning Bulletin on Saturday, 5 May 1934. A host of compliments ran, like a elegant train, behind her.
• • Morning Bulletin wrote: Mae West makes you greedy. When you see "She Done Him Wrong" you want more and more of Mae. She is like the most thrilling serial story in the world. ...
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mimic Anne Russell rattles off her impressions. Some are good, notably the Mae West take-off. Other imitations are weak.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "People with careers are too busy to spend enough time on their marriage. I have seen several marriages, which should have been happy, fail — chiefly because of that lack of time."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The May Mann papers mentioned Mae West.
• • During her summer at college, May Mann began to pursue an interview with Mae West. According to May, this stunning star evaded the press in fine Garbo fashion. It was May's dream to actually go "up and see [her] some time," and write an exclusive on it. According to the editor of the Standard-Examiner, May got the interview "after two years of repeated effort . . . after considerable maneuvering, near appointments and finally by pulling all the 'strings of power and pull' in Hollywood" (Mae West article, box 9, fd. 5, editor's note). Through her contact with Miss West's personal representative, May became one of the five women to have a personal interview with Mae West . . . .
• • Source: Item in the May Mann Papers, 1930 —1982
• • 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 16th 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 4,700 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,727th 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.

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Mae West: The Public Wants

In 1942, when MAE WEST was feeling her Hollywood halo slipping, she decided to reinvent herself. The place to tell the entertainment world her intentions was the famous "Harrison in Hollywood" column, started by Paul Harrison, and now penned by Erskine Johnson.This is Part 3 of 5.
• • Mae West: Leaving Diamond Lil behind • •
• • Erskine Johnson wrote: She's been trying to break away from that image, she says, for a long, long time. After her second picture, in fact. But film producers would not listen to her; they said they knew best.

• • Erskine Johnson wrote: The box office receipts on her last couple of pictures proved the masterminds were wrong and that Mae West was right.
• • Erskine Johnson wrote: "I knew that all that 'come up and see me some time' and 'you can be had, big boy' stuff couldn't go on after my second picture," Mae West says. "But would the producers listen to me? No. 'Mae,' they said, 'that's what the public wants. So let's give it to 'em.' Well, we gave it to 'em — — until everybody in show business was imitating my stuff."
• • Mae West: Would be “washed up” • • ...
• • To be continued with Part 4 tomorrow.
• • Source: Harrison in Hollywood column written by Erskine Johnson, Syndicated Columnist;  published on Thursday, 5 November 1942.
• • On Saturday, 4 May 1935 • •
• • A Los Angeles Times columnist noted on Saturday, 4 May 1935, that the news about Mae West's secret marriage to Frank Wallace had "chased Hitler, the NRA, and the quintuplets off the front page of every newspaper in America for two weeks."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • "Night After Night" — George Raft attains stardom in a peppy, but otherwise commonplace gangster picture, in which George runs a speakeasy and falls in love with a society girl (Constance Cummings).  Newcomer Mae West almost steals the picture. (Paramount)
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Let me have around me men — — and let it go at that."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on censorship mentioned Mae West.
• • The Wales Padlock Law. ...
• • The trouble was, as always, that the reformers saw smut in everything that chafed their own highly developed sense of sex; to them, a serious treatment of a serious theme, like “Maya,’’ was as filthy as “Pleasure Man.”
• • A number of well-known and respected actors and actresses found, themselves hauled into night court because they had had the audacity to appear in plays dealing with adult themes.
• • A number of young ladies who allowed the public to see them clad in their native modesty, and not much else, were also rounded up by red-faced patrolman. So was Mae West. ...
• • Source: Variety; published on Wednesday, 2 January 1952
• • 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 16th 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 4,700 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,726th 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.

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Mae West: New Directions

In 1942, when MAE WEST was feeling her Hollywood halo slipping, she decided to reinvent herself. The place to tell the entertainment world her intentions was the famous "Harrison in Hollywood" column, started by Paul Harrison, and now penned by Erskine Johnson.This is Part 2 of 5.
• • Mae West: Two nude statues • •
• • Erskine Johnson wrote: Five Mae Wests, not counting the reflections in two oversized wall mirrors, occupy the big all-white living room of her Hollywood apartment. Two nude statues, a couple of nude portraits painted in oil, and Mae herself in a white dressing gown with a couple of rocks on her fingers about the size of the one the Pilgrims first stepped on.
• • Mae West Ain't Kidding • •

• • Erskine Johnson wrote:  Mae West insisted that she's not kidding about forgetting the free-wheeling walk and the Diamond Lil character.
• • Mae West: Leaving Diamond Lil • • ...   
• • To be continued.
• • Source: Harrison in Hollywood column written by Erskine Johnson, Syndicated Columnist;  published on Thursday, 5 November 1942.
• • On Tuesday, 3 May 1938 • •
• • On Tuesday, 3 May 1938, the Hollywood Reporter carried coverage about the Mae West movie "Klondike Annie."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • In the new exploit, Miss Mae West will register in dual capacity of author-producer of "Five-A-Day," saga of the coffee and cake circuit masquerading as valid theatres.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I'm not really a hotsy-totsy dame — I'm a serious business woman. A lot of women make dough by exposing their torso. But I make more by doing nothing of the sort. I just keep 'em guessing.''
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Los Angeles Times mentioned Mae West and James Timony.
• • "Mae West Scouts Talk of Rift" • •
• • On Thursday, 3 May 1934, this headline appeared in The Los Angeles Times. The article quotes Mae West's denial of a rift between herself and Jim Timony. The actress emphasized that they were not sweethearts, however, Jim is still her business manager. ...
• • Source: The Los Angeles Times; published on Thursday, 3 May 1934
• • 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 16th 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 4,700 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,725th 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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