Monday, October 04, 2021

Mae West: The Real McCoy

During fan magazine interviews, MAE WEST was often coy, guarded, or made a game of her responses. But during this rare sit-down with Hilary Lynn, the subject of sex on screen steered Mae into being more sincere. Since this Westian gem has been overlooked for 85 years, we dusted it off for you Mae-mavens. This is Part 3 of 13 segments.
• • Has Mae West a Dual Personality? • •
• • Mae West advises you to go after your man boldly, but Hollywood's smoothest gents claim she doesn't practice what she preaches. • •
• • Mae West: How sex should be presented on the screen • •

• • Hilary Lynn wrote: Mae West’s eyes are the poet's favorite dewy violet — and the lashes, like Greta Garbo's (as was just recently revealed after all these years of silence) are not the handiwork of a make-up man — they're the real McCoy. Black, long, silky, and with that devastating upswing.
• • Hilary Lynn’s interview with Mae West: "Love and sex may be considered old-fashioned by some," continued Mae, "but they still come in for their quota of after-dinner conversation along with the Italo-Ethiopian situation and what John Barrymore's next movie might be.”
• • Hilary Lynn’s interview with Mae West: "Everybody has his pet theory about how sex should be presented on the screen. Some say it should be done away with entirely. Personally," and here Mae West gave me one of those slow, smouldering glances and lazily stretched her white arms.
• • Mae West: Should sex on the screen be sugar-coated? • • …  
• • Modern Screen’s lengthy article will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for April 1936.
• • On Saturday, 4 October 1947 • •
• • "Shy Mae West!" • •
• • British correspondent Cecil Wilson wrote: Mae West, in London to play "Diamond Lil," was "on show" at the Savoy Hotel for newspapermen. And she put on the performance of her life to give them the Mae West they have come to  know on the screen.  ...
• • Source: The Singapore Free Press; published on Saturday, 4 October 1947.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West did her best to get around the bans with innuendo. For example, ‘Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.’
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I'm never dirty, dear. I'm interesting without bein' vulgar. I have taste."  
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An item in TV Guide in 1963 mentioned Mae West.
• • TV Guide wrote: Mae West is negotiating for a comedy cartoon series, "Pretty Mae," which would feature her voice behind a cartoon caricature of herself. Her only previous TV appearances have been the 1958 Oscar telecast and a "Red Skelton Hour" three years ago. …
• • Source: TV Guide; published on Saturday, 18 May 1963

• • 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 17th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past seventeen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,800 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,835th 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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Friday, October 01, 2021

Mae West: Bold Boudoir

During fan magazine interviews, MAE WEST was often coy, guarded, or made a game of her responses. But during this rare sit-down with Hilary Lynn, the subject of sex on screen steered Mae into being more sincere. Since this Westian gem has been overlooked for 85 years, we dusted it off for you Mae-mavens. This is Part 2 of 13 segments.
• • Has Mae West a Dual Personality? • •
• • Mae West advises you to go after your man boldly, but Hollywood's smoothest gents claim she doesn't practice what she preaches. • •
• • Mae West: Take sex with a laugh • •
• • Hilary Lynn’s interview with Mae West: "I take sex with a laugh. I don't let it get me. Get me?"
• • Hilary Lynn wrote: I was beginning to catch on.

• • Hilary Lynn wrote: In a turquoise satin negligee, very simple but very Patou, Mae was lounging in her boudoir — a perfect atmosphere for our conversation. It was a gold and white boudoir — even to the telephone.
• • Note: Jean Patou [1887 ― 1936] was a French fashion designer who created "Joy," the most expensive perfume in the world, a scent favored by Mae West.
• • Hilary Lynn wrote: White magnolias and gardenias in gold and white vases. A tantalizing scent like heavy tropical flowers touched with moonlight. Soft white rugs on the floor. The sparkle of crystal candelabra. Mirrors lining the walls.
• • Hilary Lynn wrote: Even a mirror above the white, satin-covered bed on which Mae West was relaxing, as disturbingly radiant as Cleo and Delilah all rolled into one.
• • Hilary Lynn wrote: For the first time I had a close-up of Mae's eyes.
• • Mae West: How sex should be presented on the screen • • …  
• • Modern Screen’s lengthy article will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for April 1936.
• • On Monday, 1 October 1928 • •
• • Mae West's gay play "Pleasure Man" had a $200,000 box office advance when it premiered at the Biltmore on Monday, 1 October 1928. The police raided the show, however, and shut it down the same night.
• • The play “Courting Mae West” dramatizes the police raids of Mae West’s Broadway plays.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West's first two films grossed over seven million dollars at the height of the Great Depression. But in an unfortunate back-lash, do-gooders all over the country rose in their wrath. The Legion of Decency was formed and forced the Hays Office (Hollywood's self-censoring body) to tighten up its rules.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Jimmy Cagney is the only one in Hollywood that's got anything like my style. Animal personality. Gives them the rough stuff right out like I do."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A reviewer in Time Magazine covered a play by Mae West.
• • "The Constant Sinner" • •
• • Time's critic wrote: Three seasons ago Mae West's lusty singing of "Frankie and Johnnie" and the nostalgic flavor of bar and brothel scenes made "Diamond Lil" a Broadway hit. In "The Constant Sinner," which Mae West wrote from her own novel, the bars and brothels are Harlem, 1931, and Mae West does not sing. But "The Constant Sinner" is no tame play, nor is it a dull play.  ...
• • Source: Review in Time Magazine; published on Monday, 28 September 1931

• • 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 17th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past seventeen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,800 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,834th 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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Thursday, September 30, 2021

Mae West: Dual Personality

Paramount’s publicity flacks often planted promotional stories on MAE WEST paired with remarks by her various leading men. Unfortunately, most articles were downright dumb.
• • For example, take this misfire: "Making Love to Mae West Is Like a Football Game," a boring “interview” with Johnny Mack Brown [Motion Picture's issue for September 1934]. It started with “Johnny Mack Brown is glad Mae West didn't keep him warming a bench…” and never got better.
• • But William Grigs Atkinson [8 December 1888 ― 15 March 1964], known professionally as Paul Cavanagh, was an English film actor and West End stage star who had graduated from Cambridge University and practiced law before pursuing the dramatic arts. This erudite and perceptive leading man was able to provide fascinating insights on Mae West during his sit-down with Modern Screen for their article published in 1936. Instead of the usual, lamentable publicist’s piffle, Paul Cavanagh’s statements offer that rare ring of authenticity.
• • Since this Tinseltown interview has long been overlooked, we dusted off the cobwebs. Let’s roll the tape together, shall we? This is Part 1 of 13 segments.
• • Has Mae West a Dual Personality? • •

• • Mae West advises you to go after your man boldly, but Hollywood's smoothest gents claim she doesn't practice what she preaches. • •
• • Hilary Lynn wrote: The purpose of this article is to report two conversations. Just that. You can draw your own conclusions from Mae West’s remarks and then Paul Cavanagh’s comments on getting to know Mae West. These first-hand comments are bound to be interesting!
• • Hilary Lynn’s interview with Mae West: "The reason people go for my motion pictures in a big way is that I don't make 'em afraid of sex. Know what I mean?"
• • Hilary Lynn wrote: I didn't . . . quite. So Mae West went on to elaborate.
• • Mae West: Take sex with a laugh • • …
• • Modern Screen’s lengthy article will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for April 1936.
• • On Saturday, 30 September 1944 • •
• • On Saturday, 30 September 1944 Mae West, who was playing the Empress of Russia, moved her show "Catherine Was Great" from the Shubert Theatre to the Royale, the playhouse that had originally welcomed Diamond Lil and her boisterous Bowery hijinx in 1928.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Last month we detailed a Pinkerton man, three movie detectives, and S. S. Van Dine, in a heavy black beard, to discover the brand of perfume used by Mae West. Innocent bystanders had told us Mae's particular preference bore a heavy bouquet which drove men mad and drugged Miss West's immediate vicinity with the very richness of its presence.
• • Four of our operatives, alas, never returned, but the fifth, a man with a wife and family, finally staggered in with a faint cry which must have been "Eureka." In other words, we have it on unimpeachable authority that Mae's perfume choice is Sinless Passion.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "I think a woman may owe a man a lovin'.  But not a livin'!"
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • United Press discussed Mae West and her lawsuit • •
• • "Ex-Husband Loses Mae West Suit — Monthly Maintenance Denied Wallace" • •
• • San Bernadino, Calif., Sept. 23  [U.P.] — — Frank Wallace lost his $1,000 a month temporary separate maintenance suit against Mae West today in a ruling that questioned his good faith in bringing the action against his actress-wife.
• • There is nothing in this case that would convince the court that the plaintiff is not motivated by sheer profit in filing this action, said Superior Judge Charles L. Allison.  …  
• • Source: United Press; published on Tuesday,  23 September 1941

• • 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 17th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past seventeen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,800 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,833rd 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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Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Mae West: Torrid Episode

Many stories have circulated about MAE WEST, a famous Tinseltown temptress. This account, published in 1936, claims Raoul Walsh filmed sexy scenes that were never meant for the screen but for his own private R-rated viewing. See what you think.
• • Modern Screen wrote: "Why not lead off this month's news with a Mae West item?" we have just asked ourselves, and hearing no reply at all, here is this month's Mae West item: As you know, Mae's leading man in "Klondike Annie" is Victor McLaglen [10 December 1886 — 7 November 1959].
• • Modern Screen wrote: Now, Vic is big and tough, but around the ladies he's not exactly what you'd call a Gablemore. He is, briefly, shy.
• • Modern Screen wrote: So our Mae took him in hand during a love scene, and in conspiracy with director Raoul Walsh, gave Vic what is known in technical circles as "the works."

• • Modern Screen wrote: By the time the scene ended, the McLaglen countenance was crimson, and he still doesn't know that the torrid love episode was filmed, not for the picture but for Raoul Walsh's private collection of scenes that Mr. Hays and his hirelings will never view.
• • Modern Screen wrote: While we're on the subject of Mr. Raoul Walsh, it might be nice to mention a fine gesture on his part during the shooting of "Klondike Annie."
• • Modern Screen wrote: During several weeks before Christmas, Walsh shot scenes which required the presence of a number of old timers. Instead of choosing his players at random from the casting office, Walsh ordered a couple of assistants to check on the financial status of the candidates.
• • Modern Screen wrote: As a result, the neediest cases were given jobs and a much more pleasant Christmas than they anticipated.
• • Source: Modern Screen: published in the issue dated for March 1936.
• • On Tuesday, 29 September 1914 • •
• • The newspaper the Philadelphia North American reviewed the more prominent variety artists who were performing onstage in the City of Brotherly Love on Tuesday, 29 September 1914. The arts critic thought well of Mae, who was then calling herself "The Original Brinkley Girl." When he referred to her stage act, he called her a "nut comedienne."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The "doubles" for famous stars make an interesting group. The stand-in for Claudette Colbert is Pluma Noisom; for Crawford, Kasha Le Seuer; for Garbo, Chris Meeker and for Mae West, Virginia Rendell.  
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I objected to the underwear they gave me at the Island. It was rough on the body. ‘I want to wear my silk underwear.’ ‘This ain’ Saks Fifth Avenue,’ said a toothless old hag.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A foreign newspaper mentioned Mae West.
• • "I've Come to Find out, Says Mae." • •
• • The Singapore Free Press wrote: Mae West invited goggle-eyed British reporters to "come up and see me sometime" when she ran the first gauntlet of them on her arrival at Southampton at two o'clock on Wednesday morning.  
• • Just to keep everything above board, Mae West asked the newsmen to a press reception at the Savoy Hotel. …      
• • Source: The Singapore Free Press;  published on Tuesday, 23 September 1947

• • 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 17th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past seventeen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,800 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,832nd 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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Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Mae West: Dog Enthusiast

A lifelong animal lover, MAE WEST posed with Hollywood’s hounds in two of her motion pictures. Less often seen than the famous twin Borzoi portrait from “Goin’ to Town” is this one from “Every Day’s a Holiday.”
• • Here Mae West’s character Mademoiselle Fifi  holds a large Doberman on a leash.

• • Reporters who met Mae West during the 1920s and early 1930s — — before stardom cloaked her utterly — — have a refreshingly different take than those who met her as a bonafide movie queen.
• • New York Herald Tribune reporter Stanley Walker came up to see Mae West often in New York.
• • A section in Stanley Walker’s 1935 memoir discussed Mae West.
• • “Sex Comes to America” • •
• • Mae’s household: monkey and Chihuahua • •
• • In 1934-35, Stanley Walker wrote: The other occupants of the apartment are a monkey named Junior and a small Chihuahua dog.
• • Source: Chapter “Sex Comes to America” from "Mrs. Astor's Horse" written by Stanley Walker [NY: Frederick A. Stokes, 28 October 1935, 320 pages].
• • On Sunday, 28 September 1930 • •
• • Mae West decided to take her play "Sex" on the road during August 1930. The N.Y. Times reported that "Sex" was booked in the Midwest. The engagement at the Garrick Theatre in Chicago began on Sunday, 28 September 1930.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Established in 1928, The Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park and Crematory is located off Ventura Freeway, twenty miles from Hollywood.
• • Hollywood's Fur Friends • •
• • Many of the “fur friends” interred on its 30 acres are pets of famed movie stars such as Mae West’s pet monkey, Boogie, whose screen debut was in “I’m No Angel” and who died months later in 1933 and was laid out in a fancy lined casket.
• • Also buried here: Billie Burke’s police dog, Gloria Swanson’s Rusty, a pet of John Barrymore’s, and a dog belonging to stage and screen actor, Edmund Breese, etc.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I was four when Mama wanted to have my picture taken. I had seen a dog I liked very much. I told Mama, ‘I'd like to have my picture taken with a dog’."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Modern Screen mentioned Mae West and her love for dogs in 1935.
• • The hard-hearted landlord who owns the apartment building in which Mae West resides has decided to be rough on dawgs — — and rough on the tenants who own ‘em.   
• • Yep, either you get rid of your hound or he gets rid of you. Ida Lupino, June Clayworth, and several other beauties have obeyed the No Canine rule.
• • But Mae West will neither park her pups nor leave home. She’s superstitious is our Miss W., and has been so lucky living in her present abode that she doesn’t want to move. Besides, she’s had her whole bloomin’ apartment redecorated at her own expense in full length mirrors and white satin. Some showcase in which to set off Diamond Mae!  . . .
• • Source: Modern Screen; published in the issue dated for September 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 17th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past seventeen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,800 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,831st 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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Monday, September 27, 2021

Mae West: Al Kaufman

In the early 1930s, MAE WEST had her first dealings with Al Kaufman, who usually caved in to her demands. Let’s go back in time.
• • Albert A. Kaufman  [25 September  1888 —7 April 1957] • •
• • In 1932, Paramount Executive Al Kaufman took Mae West and her manager, Jim Timony, out for a nice dinner with a dash of persuasion. At the end of the evening, "Mae opened her handbag, took out a check, and handed it to Al. It was for twenty thousand dollars― ― her salary up to date. She told Kaufman she would be returning to New York; he told her she could rewrite her part as Joe Anton’s former gal-pal. She did, and in “Night After Night,” she "stole the show," recalled Adolf Zukor.
• • Born in Devil’s Lake, North Dakota, Studio Executive Albert A. Kaufman was Adolf Zukor's brother-in-law.

• • Listen to Mae West telling a story about Al Kaufman.
• • Taking a chance in a lion cage • •
• • According to Mae West, Mr. Ruggles was positive. "I can't let you take a chance with those lions!" he said to me.
• • In a few minutes my producer, William LeBaron, was sent for, and he arrived with two assistants to hear my story. He said it was a daring thing that I wanted to do and he agreed that it would make the picture a lot better. But even he couldn't commit himself.
• • Just then Al Kaufman came on the set. He was and is a reasonable and understanding man, but also an excellent business executive.
• • This lion scene is the main reason I'm doing this picture! • •
• • He listened as I blurted out, "This lion scene is the main reason I'm doing this picture!!"'
• • Al Kaufman thought a moment, and then he told me that Paramount Pictures had an enormous investment in me and this motion picture. Aside from the humanitarian feeling of not wanting to have me mangled or killed, the business risk of losing both me and the picture just wasn't to be taken lightly.
• • Finally Al said, "All right, Mae, I will tell you what well do. Let's leave this scene to the last. We'll get all the rest of the picture shot and then well do the scene!'
• • "Oh, no!" I protested, "You just want to put it off to the last moment, hoping I'll go cold on it. You don't want me to do it. We're ready now and I want to do it now."
• • I argued for a long time and finally they gave in.
• • After lunch I returned to the set and things began to move. ...
• • Note: Al Kaufman died in Los Angeles  at the age 68.
• • Source: Mae West telling a story in "The Public Is Never Wrong: The Autobiography of Adolph Zukor" [‎G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1 January  1953].
• • On Thursday, 27 September 1934 in Boston Herald • •
• • A review of "Belle of the Nineties" appeared in the Boston Herald on this date.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West enjoyed eating the eggplant parmigiana at Casa D'Oro in Westwood.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I sat around for 12 weeks drawing money and I never saw a script. This wasn't for me."
• • Mae West said: "I'm here to make talkies. I hope the film can take the temperature."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A pictorial on important screen actresses mentioned Mae West.
• • "Screen Legends" • •
• • Mae West — — Playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol, Mae West was born on 17 August 1893 and was one of Hollywood's more controversial characters. She started out working in Vaudeville and on the stages of New York before taking to the bright lights of the motion picture industry.
• • Offered a Paramount Pictures contract in 1932 when she was 38, Mae West made her film debut in "Night After Night." She died in 1980 at the age of 87 following a stroke and a fall from bed.
• • Source: Vogue; published on Wednesday, 13 August 2014

• • 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 17th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past seventeen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,800 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,830th 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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