Mae West: Dorothy Sands

Dorothy Sands boosted her visibility with her MAE WEST impersonations in the "Grand Street Follies" in 1928.
• • Like Mae West, Dorothy Sands was born in 1893 and died in 1980. On 5 March 1893, Dorothy Sands was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• • Dorothy Sands began her performance career on Broadway in 1924, and was steadily cast on the legitimate stage until 1970. Her last Broadway credit was her role as Hattie Fields in the comedy "Paris Is Out!" [2 February 1970 - 18 April 1970].
• • On the vaudeville circuit, she also did impressions of Sophie Tucker, Eva Tanguay, Ethel Barrymore, and others.
• • Reviewing her performance in their June 11th, 1928 issue, Time Magazine had this to say: The Grand Street Follies are built upon the eminently sound principle of burlesquing all recent attractions at Manhattan theatres. A sophisticate must loudly giggle, when Albert Carroll comes on the stage impersonating Laurette Taylor or when Dorothy Sands pretends she is Ina Claire, lest neighbors in the audience suffer from the illusion that he has not viewed the original from which the parody derives. Yokels, too, are compelled by their anxious timidity to give deceitful titters. Since almost all Manhattan theatre-goers fall painfully into these categories, it was perhaps unnecessary for Albert Carroll and Dorothy Sands to make their burlesques in The Grand Street Follies of 1928 quite so hilariously exact as they did. The former simultaneously played Mrs. Fiske with the right side of his face and Ethel Barrymore with the left; Dorothy Sands played Mae West in Romeo and Juliet.
• • Other impudent imitations were offered by Paula Trueman who appeared successively as Haidee Wright, Eva LeGallienne, and Helen Hayes.
• • The customary features of musical shows — such as hordes of pretty, naked ladies and many sentimental songs — are not emphasized in The Grand Street Follies. Mayor Walker, however, without whom no amusement is complete, appears by proxy. ...
• • After a lengthy career onstage and in TV shows, Sands died in Croton-on-Hudson, NY on 11 September 1980.

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Mae West: "Hard to Handle"

When MAE WEST was getting fitted for her costumes for the ill-fated "Myra Breckinridge"
[release date 24 June 1970], one creation by Edith Head cleverly reprised Mae's Statue of Liberty moment in the 1934 movie "Belle of the Nineties."
• • During March 1970, Edith Head [1897-1981] was working on Mae's wardrobe.
• • This is Edith Head's sketch for Mae's character Leticia Van Allen.
• • Author Gore Vidal, who disowned the screen version of his novel, had named his character "Letitia" - - but Mae West insisted that her role should be advertised as "Leticia," citing "the obvious reasons."

• • In this production, Mae West performed the songs "Hard to Handle" and "You Gotta Taste All the Fruit." During the shoot, the actress would come to work surrounded by young, muscular males. She would tell the studio security, "They're with me!"
• • Director Michael Sarne did not use a lot of the material Mae West had written for her scenes, she later complained to newspaper reporters.
• • This box office disappointment was the feature debut of actor Tom Selleck.
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Mae West: FBI-eyed

MAE WEST never went duck hunting with Dick Cheney. The actress never compared colorists with bottle blonde Valerie Plame. And though Mae exchanged Christmas cards with Libby Taylor, she never had "Scooter" Libby on her list. However, Mae did tangle with an FBI agent.
• • FBI files indicate that in 1935, Mae West received an extortion letter threatening to disfigure her with acid.
• • In 1943, Mae West, Betty Gable, Jack LaRue, and other Hollywood notables received additional extortion letters.
• • An eighteen-year-old male was apprehended trying to mail another letter in which he demanded $85,000. The extortionist — — from Omaha, Nebraska — — received a five-year sentence for the crime.
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Mae West: Different Drummer

It was fifty years ago today that Remo Belli sat behind a set of drums and played for MAE WEST when she performed in southern California. That gig, he recalled, was one of his last bookings as a band member.
• • In 1957, Belli became a Mylar drumhead manufacturer. Remo Inc., the company he founded, employs about 320 people and has a manufacturing plant in Valencia, California. The company makes 18,000 drumheads each day, Remo said.
• • "I never planned on doing this. I planned on being a musician," Remo Belli, now 79 years old, told the L.A. Daily News in a recent interview - - offering his recollections about working with Mae.
• • In 1912, Mae West learned how to play drums. Her boyfriend Joe Schenck, who had his own band, taught her. Then 19 years old, Mae was living in the Ridgewood section of New York City.
• • Joe Schenck rehearsed with Mae and his musicians in a clubhouse located at 70-12 Cypress Hills, Ridgewood, NY.
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Mae West: 2 Shows in March

MAE WEST comes to the South Street Seaport this month on March 18th and March 24th when a salute to old-time variety artists will be onstage.
• • Organized by Montauk Theatre Productions/ Shooting Star Theatre and the show's creators NY Artists Unlimited, both shows are matinees and geared towards all ages. Performances are interactive and followed by a discussion/ workshop. Tickets are very inexpensive.
• • "Voices of the Town - - A Vaudeville Salute!" features a line-up that includes MAE WEST, The Marx Brothers, Sophie Tucker, Bert Williams, Florence Mills, Eva Tanguay, Marie Dressler, and more.
• • "Voices of the Town" covers the history of vaudeville in America 1875-1935 and shows the breakthroughs made by African-Americans, women, and immigrants. It has 25 period songs, dance, comedy routines, and brings to life numerous stars of yesteryear.
• • Writer-director Melba LaRose leads the cast which includes Carmela Davis, Nate Steinwachs, Lucia Manzella, Katrin Hier, and Joyce Pena. Anita Brown from Shooting Star Theatre makes a special guest appearance as Molly Picon, singing in both Yiddish and English. Choreographer for the shows is Francis J. Roach.
• • Spanning the late 1800s to the mid-1930s in America, this piece shows how performers survived two Depressions, war, oppression, segregation, discrimination of all sorts, struggles for human/ workers'/ women's rights, and the like. It also reveals that vaudeville was "family entertainment" and the starting point for many major stars.
• • Portrayals of once very important African-American stars are plentiful: Bert Williams, the highest paid star in the Ziegfeld Follies, and Florence Mills, great star of the Harlem Renaissance and Broadway (both played by Carmela Davis). In addition, audiences will gain insight into the T.O.B.A. Circuit (black performers only) and the use of blackface.
• • Circle your March calendar. These affordable matinee shows will be held at the Seaport District Cultural Assoc. Performing Space (a former Liz Claiborne store) on the SW corner of Beekman & Front Street on March 18th and March 24th, 2007. Phone to reserve tickets: 212-242-6036.
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Mae West: Sensation

Salvador Dali and MAE WEST both knew how to make an impression.
• • Writing for the London newspaper The Guardian, reporter Jonathan Jones reports on an element that took root during the 1930s: "It was sexy, weird, and dangerous - - and it's still hugely influential today."
• • According to Jones, Dalí saw no difference between the avant-garde and popular culture, and excelled at the art of sensation: when a surrealist exhibition was staged at the New Burlington Galleries in London in 1936, it was Dalí who made the papers by giving a lecture wearing a deep-sea diving suit complete with brass helmet - - and collapsing.
• • Dalí projected his dreams so clearly they fascinated fashion designers and Hollywood, where he worked with Alfred Hitchcock and even Walt Disney. He happily designed the lip sofas that feature in the V&A show and, in his one-man museum in Figueras, created an entire room whose furniture forms itself into Mae West's face, with sofa lips.
• • None of this was the betrayal of surrealism that Breton and his comrades accused him of after they threw him out of the movement in 1936, for confessing to a fascination with Hitler. Surrealism was an attempt to release "the marvellous" into everyday existence. Dalí, a clever man, saw that this connected it with architecture, which shapes our everyday environment. His hero was the Barcelona architect Antoni Gaudí. At Figueras, you see Dalí's desire to create a total environment of fantasy such as Gaudí's rapturous house Casa Batlló.
• • This is what Dalí's Mae West room, lip-sofa and telephone with a lobster for a receiver try to do: replace reality with fantasy, as Gaudí's architecture does.
• • Nothing could be more surreal. Dalí did it in a way anyone could respond to. Soon designers were making surrealist dresses, Cecil Beaton taking surrealist fashion photos. Dalí travelled far from home and, some say, lost his soul painting portraits of rich Americans. ...
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• • Source: The Guardian
• • printed: Monday - - 5 March 2007
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Mae West: The Hindu

The book reviewer for The Hindu has been busy leafing through past lives.
• • In his column for India's National Newspaper published on Sunday 4 March 2007, V. Gangadhar observed that 2006 was a boom time for biographies in the U.S.A.
• • He writes: "Sex symbol Mae West reigned in Hollywood for less than eight years but there was something weird about her narcissism according to biographer Simon Louvish in Mae West: It Ain't No Sin. After a sensational debut, she ruined her career with endless sex talk on her conquests and female unsatiated sexual needs. All this got boring after sometime, the newly-constituted U.S. Board of Censors began to wield its scissors and West's movie success dimmed. She had to remain content with suggestive one-liners."
• • Source: The Hindu - - http://www.hindu.com/
• • Publication Date: 4 March 2007
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Mae West: Stuart Holmes

Character actor Stuart Holmes played the part of Dirk in the MAE WEST film "Belle of the Nineties" [1934].
• • Originally titled "It Ain't No Sin," various aspects of the movie came under the scrutiny of Hollywood's Hays Office.
• • Born in Chicago as Joseph Liebchen in March - - on 10 March 1884 - - the versatile six-footer appeared frequently in films playing minor roles from 1909 until 1964.
• • Holmes died in Hollywood of a stomach ailment on 29 December 1971.
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Mae West: Bert Williams

MAE WEST adored the vaudevillian Bert Williams.
• • "Baby Mae" performed his famous song "Nobody" during her earliest amateur outings, impersonating her idol with accuracy.
• • Bert Williams [12 November 1874 – 4 March 1922], the pre-eminent Black entertainer of his era (birthname Egbert Austin Williams), was born on the island of Antigua [West Indies]. In 1888 his family moved to Los Angeles. He began his entertainment career in 1892 in San Francisco.
• • Bert Williams became one of vaudeville's top names, both as a solo performer and as part of the successful team "Williams & Walker" with partner George Walker. Together they popularized the Cakewalk. Light-skinned, the Caribbean native was also famous for performing in blackface.
• • After George Walker's death, Williams appeared with Eddie Cantor and in major shows such as the Ziegfeld Follies.
• • After collapsing onstage on 25 February 1922 while singing "Under The Bamboo Tree," Bert Williams died in a hospital on March 4th. He was 48 years old.
• • Last year two books about his outstanding career were published.
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Mae West: March 1964

It was on 22 March 1964 when MAE WEST appeared on a TV series with the talking horse.
• • Episode Five: "Mae West Meets Mr. Ed" - - [synopsis] Wilbur is hired as an architect by a new client who turns out to be the famous movie star, Mae West. She wants a new stable built.
• • When she comes over to see Wilbur with her three male bodyguards - - the human equivalent of "stallions" - - everyone is smitten by her. She leaves Wilbur her calling card, the 'queen of hearts' from a deck of cards. When Mae West had called earlier and Mr. Ed had answered the phone, she was turned on by his voice and let him know he could come over anytime. Later, when Wilbur won't let Mr. Ed watch television, Mr. Ed decides to take Mae West up on her invite.
• • In reality, Mae was not much for outdoor sports, though she did learn to ride a horse, ride an elephant, and tame a lion for various movie roles. An animal lover, Mae West would visit the zoo in whatever town she happened to be appearing onstage. Mae bought her first monkey when she moved to California.
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Mae West: March 1940

Here's an excerpt from a movie review published by The New York Times in March 1940 discussing MAE WEST's latest screen effort which had opened in Manhattan at the Roxy on Seventh Avenue.
• • W. C. Fields and Mae West Are Seen in 'My Little Chickadee' at the Roxy . . .
• • Noel Coward once had a line about two empty paper bags belaboring each other, but we never thought we should one day be scoundrel enough to remember it in connection with a picture harboring W. C. Fields and Mae West.
• • "My Little Chickadee," at the Roxy, in which the two comic soloists are trying to sing a duet, is an effort greatly strained. With the best will in the world, it just isn't funny --not even when the great William Claude ogles Miss West and roguishly invites her to come up and see him some time; not even when La West, commenting on her escape from the "Masked Bandit," explains "It was a tight spot, but I managed to wiggle out of it."
• • And those are the film's high-water marks.
• • The low water mark is more clearly defined, for the film is at low tide most of the time in the quality of its humor, in the broad treatment its players and directors have given it, in the caliber of the audience it seems intended to please and in the generally bad odor it exudes.
• • Miss West's humor, like Miss West herself, appears to be growing broader with the years and begins to turn upon the lady: it's one thing to burlesque sex and quite another to be burlesqued by it.
• • Mr. Fields, largely the innocent victim of some one else's bad taste, inevitably is tempted to juggle a few mud pies himself. It puts a heavy strain on an old admiration to endure the old boy's keyhole-peeping and door-champing at Flower Belle's boudoir, to see him become just another member of the adulant entourage Miss West thoughtfully creates for all her pictures.
• • The story this time is of Flower Belle Lee (guess who) and of Cuthbert J. Twillie, who are united in the bonds of matrimony-in-name-only because Flower Belle needs a consort for legal reasons and because Cuthbert has. . . well, never mind what . . . .
• • excerpt from:
• • Film Review
• • Written By FRANK S. NUGENT
• • published: 16 March 1940 in The New York Times
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Mae West: Chill Chaser

Read the words of MAE WEST to fight the winter chill.
• • When Lillian Schissel edited "Three Plays by Mae West" [published by Routledge in 1997], this was the first time Sex, The Drag, and The Pleasure Man had been printed in PLAY form. Thought to be lost, the original manuscripts were sleeping at the Library of Congress. After prolonged legal wrangling with the Roger Richman Agency of Los Angeles, who at the time represented the Mae West receivership estate, a deal was finally struck to have the plays published.
• • In her introduction, Lillian Schissel argues that West provided one of the first role models for women suggesting they could be independent and achieve success following through on their own ambitions.
• • Mae West was, without question, one of the most famous and controversial figures of her era. She was a tough-talking, wise-cracking vaudeville performer who made her way onto the Broadway stage and then into the hearts of the American public with a highly visible Hollywood film career. Rarely, however, do people think of Mae West as a writer even though she wrote eight scripts for the stage and her own dialogue for many of her films.
• • In Three Plays By Mae West, Lillian Schlissel brings this underexplored part of West's career to the fore by offering for the first time in book form, three of the plays West wrote in the 1920s -- Sex (1926), The Drag (1927), and Pleasure Man (1928). Schlissel's introduction offers insight to the life and early career of this legendary stage and screen actress.
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Mae West: Strings Attached

There are strings attached to MAE WEST - - the marionette made by Michael Baroto in Burbank, California.
• • This one-of-a-kind puppet has an animated mouth.
• • Mae West is strung to move from side to side. And special strings move one hand to her hip, and one to her head. From the photographs, this figure seems to be very detailed with rhinestones and sequins. [Measurements are 35 inches without strings.]
• • This colorful marionette is being offered on Ebay. The seller indicates this item comes with a Mae West music CD and radio show CDs.
• • No takers so far. Maybe there are too many strings attached to living with Mae. . . .
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Mae West: Presidential

Who will you vote for? Obama, Hillary, or Mae West!

In 1959, a few months before Mae West's autobiography would be published, The Las Vegas Sun ran a spoof headline about the presidential race between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. Which new candidate would be campaigning to run the White House? Mae West was about to launch her "third party" bid from the Sahara Hotel, said the Sun, all in fun. How many think that Mae West probably would have done a better job on Pennsylvania Avenue than actor Ronald Reagan did?
• • Maybe you can't vote for an actress in November, however, you CAN enjoy several books about Mae West. Many are available at a nice price via Ebay.
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Mae West: Hollywood

As the news crews gather in Los Angeles for the annual Academy Awards affair, what is there to say about MAE WEST?
• • • • In her bestseller "From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies," Molly Haskell discussed the Mae West persona. Haskell wrote: "Unlike other stars, whom we think of in the context of specific films, her image, complete with body language and voice, lifts buoyantly out of celluloid into space like the inflatable life preserver that was named after her in World War II. She's a pneumatic floozy presiding over an army of panting camp followers, a Catherine the Great from Brooklyn, a Salome who adds on the layers instead of shedding them, a Cleopatra whose infinite variety is debatable."
• • • • According to Molly Haskell: For years Mae West tried to promote a film about Catherine the Great, in which she would offer a warmer and more sensual alternative to what she described as Dietrich's "hollow-cheeked doll." Although Mae West finally succeeded in launching an unfunny Broadway play on the subject of the czarina, for most of her career she was in fact playing a bawdy, carnivalesque version of Catherine, surrounded by an "honor guard" of admirers. See her, as the lion-tamer in "I'm No Angel,"entering atop an elephant, wearing a white spangled jumpsuit. Looking at her now, we can't but applaud this middle-aged woman (she was 40 when she made her first film), undisguisedly rotund, flaunting an unliposuctioned, unsiliconed body and demanding her sexual privileges!
• • • • With unshakable confidence, she seems to have hungered for the spotlight from infancy, and when she got a chance to make her song-and-dance debut at the age of 7, she took it and never stopped showing off.... [Excerpt from an essay by Molly Haskell published in August 1993 in The New York Times.] Molly Haskell is the author of "From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies."
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Mae West: DeMille

Many men looked at MAE WEST — — but Oscar never glanced once in her direction. In filmland, Mae West secured no nominations for acting. And her financially successful movies for Paramount scored no Oscar wins.
• • However, just in time for the Academy Awards ceremony comes this mention of Mae West when film preservationist Cecilia DeMille Presley was honored by Chapman University on Friday, the 23rd of February, in Indian Wells.
• • The Desert Sun noted that the granddaughter of former Paramount Studios Chief Cecil B. DeMille, who splits her time between Los Angeles and the Palm Springs, California desert, was honored for her gift of extraordinarily rare film-related art to Chapman University's new $42 million Marion Knott Studios within the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts.
• • The collection includes art for MAE WEST films, John Wayne films, and also pieces in media ranging from animation cells to rare stills, poster art, and storyboards.
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Mae West: Shame Game

MAE WEST sashayed through Marina Hyde's column in The Guardian during the month of February. The British columnist was inveighing against this topic: "Shamelessness: the TV route to rehabilitation."
• • Observing that "Broadcasters have a superpower - - and seem increasingly complacent about the way in which they are excercising it," Marina Hyde scolded Channel 4 and other networks. Hyde added: "Shame, one mused, dragging the word from some cobwebbed memory hole. Didn't you hear they found the antidote to that? It's called television."
• • According to Ms Hyde, the concept of disgrace as a career opportunity is not especially new. "I expect it will be the making of me," Mae West purred in 1927 of her arrest on vice charges relating to her play Sex, and indeed it was. But it has never been easier to bounce back, and TV is the primary redemptive force. ... Reality TV pays better even than Mohammed Fayed, it seems ...."
• • Source: The Guardian, UK - - http://www.guardian.co.uk/
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Mae West: New Orleans

When a St. Louis woman comes down to New Orleans, it doesn't matter if Mardi Gras has passed because a new party is in town: Ruby Carter - - played by MAE WEST.
• • Originally, the male lead for "It Ain't No Sin" [re-titled "Belle of the Nineties" and released in September 1934] was to be George Raft. However, 33-year-old Roger Pryor [1901-1974] - - dubbed "the poor man's Clark Gable" - - got the role of the boxer called the Tiger Kid.
• • Though Karl Struss was the cinematographer who worked on "Belle of the Nineties," this photograph of Mae West at ringside was taken by a master portraitist who shot many Hollywood stars and other celebrities: George Hoyningen-Huené.
• • Baron George Hoyningen-Huené, who segued into the darkroom when he met his lover Horst, was born on 4 September 1900 in Russia to a nobleman.
• • Hoyningen-Huené, behind a camera before anything resembling contemporary flash photography was known, achieved wonderful effects in black and white.
• • George Hoyningen-Huené died, age 68, in Los Angeles on 12 September 1968.
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Mae West: Man Fook

MAE WEST knew men but she also had a special place in her heart for Man Fook Low. In Los Angeles, her favorite Oriental eatery was Man Fook Low in Market Chinatown, one of the first places to feature the dumplings now known as dim sum.
• • In the 1930s, Hollywood started patronizing the top Chinatown restaurants. Repeat attenders included chopstick-wielders such as Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet, Walt Disney, and the Marx Brothers. During the Depression, when movie people could afford to eat well at a time when many Americans were jobless, the West Coast gossip columns and movie magazines would mention Tuey Far Low alongside showbiz hang-outs such as the Brown Derby, Sardi's, and the Coconut Grove. (Tuey Far Low courted customers by staying open until 5 A.M.)
• • Celebrities also flocked to Man Jen Low and the Dragon's Den.
• • In Mae's opinion, however, Man Fook Low was THE PLACE for "authentic" Chinese chow. In 1959 their shui mai dumplings were 35 cents each.
• • The Lunar Year 2007 begins the year of the pig.
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