Mae West: Ace Lamont

Articles on MAE WEST and 1930s reviews of her motion pictures that reveal how she was viewed by her peers are the most interesting. This review appeared in Time Magazine in 1934. This is Part 3 of 6 parts.
• • Belle of the Nineties (Paramount) • •
• • Mae West: Ruby Carter, the idol of Saint Louis • •
• • She is Ruby Carter, an entertainer of the mauve decade, the idol of St. Louis and of Tiger Kid (Roger Pryor). Tiger Kid is a prizefighter until his manager frames a telephone call which makes the Tiger think Ruby is unfaithful. Abandoned by the Tiger Kid, she goes to work at the "Sensation House" in New Orleans where Ace Lamont (John Miljan) seizes her in his arms. Miljan: "Your red lips, your white skin, your soft cheeks, your blue eyes, your. . . ."

• • Mae West: ''Say, is this a proposal, or are you takin' inventory?"
• • Molly Brant (Katherine DeMille) is Ace's one-time sweetheart, who dislikes Ruby for occupying her lover's attention and is later saved by Ruby and the Kid from a fire started by Ace Lamont in the hope of destroying "Sensation House" and burning Molly alive.
• • Mae West: Sole authorship of the two-line vaudeville gags • • . . .
• • To be continued.
• • Source: Time Magazine; published on Monday, 24 September 1934.
• • On Tuesday, 19 April 1927 • •
• • The sentencing of Mae West, Jim Timony, and the cast of "Sex" took place on Tuesday, 19 April 1927 in Jefferson Market Court (General Sessions). That trial and the dramatic guilty verdict end Act I of the full-length stage play "Courting Mae West: Sex, Censorship, and Secrets," a serious-minded comedy set during 1926 — 1932. Watch a scene on YouTube.
• • On Thursday, 19 April 1928 • •
• • In his diary, Carl Van Vechten wrote: Then we go to see Mae West in "Diamond Lil," sitting in the front row. I like it even better than before . . . .
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The name of today's sex kitten Brigitte Bardot comes to the white living room and Mae West shrugs off the siren of the Seine's shedding of clothes. "If you have to resort to that," says Mae, "you just haven't got it."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “The curve is the loveliest distance between two points.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A book on vaudeville stars mentioned Mae West.
• • Edward Watz wrote: Paramount would likely have been the ideal showcase for Bert Wheeler and Bob Woolsey's talents, since they were the one movie lot specializing in comedy, with the Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, Mae West, Maurice Chevalier, Burns and Allen, Jack Oakie, Charlie Ruggles, and Mary Boland parading before the camera at that time.   ...
• • Source: Page in this book  "Wheeler and Woolsey: The Vaudeville Comic Duo and Their Films, 1929-1937" written by Edward Watz; published in April 2001
• • 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 4,715th 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: Most Fastidious

Articles on MAE WEST and 1930s reviews of her motion pictures that reveal how she was viewed by her peers are the most interesting. This review appeared in Time Magazine in 1934. This is Part 2 of 6 parts.
• • Belle of the Nineties (Paramount) • •
• • Mae West: New Orleans spluttered vehement objection • •
• • When Belle of New Orleans was proposed, the New Orleans civic organizations spluttered vehement objection. It was subsequently called St. Louis Woman, My Old Flame and several other things before Paramount chose Belle of the Nineties.
• • Ruby Carter's arrival on the pier • •

• • Only two major changes—a hasty and unconvincing marriage at the conclusion and the removal of a sequence showing Mae West and John Miljan preparing to retire—were made before Censor Joseph Breen saw and approved the picture last August. Subsequently Belle of the Nineties passed the censor boards which the industry considers most fastidious, New York and Kansas.
• • While in this motion picture Mae West is billed merely as star and sole author, it is generally understood that she did the casting, passed on the costumes, and is responsible for everything except the sound patents.
• • Mae West: Ruby Carter, the idol of Saint Louis • • ...
• • To be continued.
• • Source: Time Magazine; published on Monday, 24 September 1934.
• • On Monday, 16 April 1928 • •
• • This is from Carl Van Vechten's journal entry for Monday, 16 April 1928. Van Vechten wrote: I read proofs all the morning. Lunch in ... Then to see Mae West in "Diamond Lil," which I adored. Miss West is marvelous. Saw Edna Ferber between acts. [Source: "The Splendid Drunken Twenties: Selections from the Daybooks, 1922 — 1930" by Carl Van Vechten.]
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West told a foreign journalist: "I'm for clean pictures and clean everything."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "You can see for yourself that a girl's just at old as she feels."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A syndicated column about Hollywood discussed Mae West.
• • Mae West Suspends Posing As a Lolling Nymph Long Enough to Exhibit Herself As Gymnast • •
• • She Scorns All Hobbies, Has Quit Going to Prize Fights, Devotes Hours Writing Plays, Dictating Mae Scripts • •
• • Paul Harrison explained: It may come as a shock to some of the parishioners to hear that Mae West takes exercises. It was to me, anyway. Here, I always had thought Mae was a true Sybarite, a voluptuary lolling in a Louis XIV den of misters, ermine, and busy ivory telephones. Or Aphrodite reclining in a foam bath and reading Variety.
• • Paul Harrison continued: In most ways Mae has been remarkably inactive. Never drives her own cars, doesn't dance, swim or ride horseback. Has no interest in gardening, cooking, or knitting. She loathes all games from tennis to chess. She doesn't attend parties and is no longer a regular spectator at boxing matches because, she said, she can't endure the smell of cigars. ...
• • Source: Harrison in Hollywood column;  published on Wednesday, 20 March 1940
• • 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 4,714th 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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Mae West: Screen Naughtiness

Articles on MAE WEST and 1930s reviews of her motion pictures that reveal how she was viewed by her peers are the most interesting.  This review appeared in Time Magazine in 1934. This is Part 1 of 6 parts.
• • "Belle of the Nineties" (Paramount) • •
• • When almost overnight Mae West became an immensely profitable symbol of screen naughtiness by padding her hips and uttering double-entendres without moving her upper lip, Paramount officials decided that she knew what she was doing. They gave her a free hand with her pictures, under the congenial supervision of producer William Le Baron.
• • Mae West and Leo McCarey look over the script • •

• • The completion of her third picture last June coincided precisely with the peak of cinema reform agitation by the Legion of Decency. The Hays office called its original title ("It Ain't No Sin" directed by Leo McCarey) quite "dangerous." The New York State Censors refused to give the picture a license.
• • Thereupon Paramount officials in Manhattan sent the film back to Hollywood for a new title and other changes.
• • Mae West: New Orleans spluttered vehement objection • • ...
• • To be continued.
• • Source: Time Magazine; published on Monday, 24 September 1934.
• • On Friday, 15 April 1927 • •
• • Taking advantage of the legal woes of his sister-in-law Mae West, Beverly's husband Sergei Treshatny obtained a divorce on Friday, 15 April 1927. Well, somebody had a nice weekend, eh?
• • The play "Courting Mae West" dramatizes aspects of Beverly's relationship with Sergei, her divorce, and her hot — cold bond with her older sister Mae.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West's train passed through Harrisburg, PA the other day but Mae denied herself to autograph seekers and such during the pause at the station. Those who were 'roundabout said that she had "six husky-looking bodyguards."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "My pictures do not shock me, but I have been genuinely shocked by stories and some scenes that I have seen in the pictures."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on fashion and Hollywood style discussed Mae West.
• • "The Secret to Mae West's Style" • •
• • Cynthia Robins wrote: The wisecracking personality and slightly nasal delivery, by the way, didn't originate with Mae West. So says Marc Wanamaker, a Hollywood film historian and archivist.
• • Cynthia Robins wrote: Marc explains: "Mae got a lot of her style from Texas Guinan, a stage actress and movie actress in the early silents who became a bar owner in New York. A lot of the lines attributed to Mae (and W.C. Fields, for that matter) like 'Never give a sucker an even break' came from Texas Guinan. They all had known each other for years from vaudeville." ...
• • Source: Cynthia Robins, Chronicle Beauty Writer, The San Francisco Chronicle; posted on Sunday, 15 April 2001
• • 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 4,713th 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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Mae West: A Frank Answer

"An Open Letter to MAE WEST" was written by J. Eugene Chrisman, Western Editor, Motion Picture. His was a unique perspective as both an impartial journalist and yet an avowed fan. Let's take a look. This is Part 8 of 8 excerpts.   
• • Mae West: I hope you'll keep knocking them cold • •
• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: I hope, Mae, that you will keep on knocking 'em cold. No matter what ever happens now, you have etched your name on the fame roll of screen history. Women may come and women may go, but there will never be another Mae West.
• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: I hope you will give me a frank answer to print on this, Mae. Let's have some of the famous West wit to liven it up! When your fans and friends read the answer they'll shout! More power to you and long may you wave.
• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: Always your friend, J. Eugene Chrisman
• • Note: Born in Denver in 1891, it seems Chrisman did his military duty during World War I.
• • Years later, annoyed by McCrae's poem set in Flanders Fields, where poppies blew between the crosses, he wrote a bitter poem set in Flanders, “Poppies,” published in a Fawcett publication: Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang, Vol. II. No. 20, May 1921.
• • This 1935 essay has been concluded with the 8th segment. We hope you enjoyed it.
• • Source: Motion Picture; published in their issue dated for August 1935.
• • On Saturday, 14 April 1973 in Hollywood • •

• • It was an SRO celebration on Saturday night, 14 April 1973 when the Masquers Club honored the Empress of Sex with a "Mae Day" tribute. Unlike previous honorees, Mae had insisted on performing a shimmy and singing "Frankie and Johnny." The ceremony was attended by Sidney Skolsky and many other notables.
• • For instance, Mae's "Myra Breckinridge" cast mate Jim Backus attended the Masquers Club's salute as one of her "Gentlemen in Waiting" (along with George Raft, Jack LaRue, Steve Allen, Lloyd Nolan, etc.).
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • When a gangster threatens Mae West, she believes him. So, in addition to having a couple of bodyguards since she testified against the man who stole her jewels, she has now ordered an armored car to protect the precious lives of herself and her manager James "Big Jim" Timony.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on bombshells mentioned Mae West.
• • "The Evolution of Sex Symbols" • •
• • David Bauer and Laura Capitano wrote: Little did the advertising people behind Jean Harlow's 1933 film Bombshell know their words would be ageless when they called her the "blond bombshell of filmdom." Harlow ushered in a new category of sexy starlet: Usually buxom, often blond, and frequently full-figured. Others — — like Mae West — — and, to a degree, Harlow, established a genre of sexual, defiant characters.
• • Bauer and Capitano wrote: Examples: Mae West, Jean Harlow, Fay Wray, Joan Blondell, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo. . . .
• • Source: The Florida Times-Union; published on Sunday, 13 April 2008
• • 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 4,712th 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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Mae West: Go to Mars

"An Open Letter to MAE WEST" was written by J. Eugene Chrisman, Western Editor, Motion Picture. His was a unique perspective as both an impartial journalist and yet an avowed fan. Let's take a look. This is Part 7 of 8 excerpts.   
• • Mae West: Would Mae like to travel to Mars? • •
• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: But you really should have a long vacation, a quiet rest in a mountain resort, where they never heard of Mae West, or would you be forced to wait until you can go to Mars?

• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: You must be tired, Mae, for flesh and blood — even yours — can stand only so much. So why not take a vacation?
• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: Ed Churchill recently got a story from your old friend, William (Bill) Le Baron. It appeared in the July issue of Motion Picture [1935]. If that story hasn't done more to reveal the REAL Mae West, than anything else ever printed, I'll eat your new costumes. Bill Le Baron adores you and lets the world know it — and I'm proud of him.
• • Mae West: I hope you'll keep knocking them cold • • ...
• • To be continued.
• • Source: Motion Picture; published in their issue dated for August 1935.
• • On Friday, 13 April 1934 in Film Weekly • •
• • It was on the issue dated for Friday, 13 April 1934 that Mae West appeared on the cover of Film Weekly (Vol. 11) in the United Kingdom.
• • On Friday, 13 April 1934 in The Hollywood Reporter • •
• • Headlines in The Hollywood Reporter read: "Mae West Orders Bullet-Proof Car."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • In April 1959, Mae West told a Hollywood columnist that her autobiography would be published in the autumn — — and its title was going to be Empress of Sex.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I'm for clean pictures and clean everything."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • New York Magazine mentioned Mae West.
• • The staff wrote: Marilyn Michaels is a female impressionist.  She impersonates Diana Ross, Mae West, Marlene Dietrich, Barbra Streisand, and other famous persons. At Les Mouches. April 8-11, 1981. ...
• • Source: New York Magazine listing; published on Monday, 13 April 1981
• • 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 4,711th 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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Mae West: Wide and Flouncy

"An Open Letter to MAE WEST" was written by J. Eugene Chrisman, Western Editor, Motion Picture. His was a unique perspective as both an impartial journalist and yet an avowed fan. Let's take a look. This is Part 6 of 8 excerpts.   
• • Mae West: How you get to people, Mae • •
• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: We recently sent a typical Mae West hat, one of those wide, flouncy babies, back for an exhibition at Macy's in New York and word comes that it was the greatest attraction of the display. How you get to people, Mae, is nobody's business! It makes me marvel.

• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: Hollywood would like to lionize you, Mae, but you won't let them.
• • Did Mae West ever get over the hurt? • •
• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: I don't think you ever quite got over the hurt at the premiere of She Done Him Wrong and I can't blame you. You know all the answers and that's enough for me.
• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: What have you in mind for your next picture? I know you are already working on it.
• • Mae West: Would Mae like to travel to Mars? • • ...
• • To be continued.
• • Source: Motion Picture; published in their issue dated for August 1935.
• • On Friday, 12 April 1929 in The N.Y. Daily News • •
• • In her popular syndicated column "Texas Guinan Says" Texas had playfully mentioned her friend: "Mae's a good girl at heart — — but she's got a bad heart."
• • Source: The New York Daily News, on Friday, 12 April 1929.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Despite numerous protests against the "Advertising bally-hoo of Movie Trailers," I say a big bouquet to them! I should never have gone to see Mae West, Otto Kruger, Katharine Hepburn, George Arliss, and — believe it or not — Greta Garbo, were it not for one of these "coming events."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "A gold rush is what happens when a line of chorus girls spot a man with a bankroll."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article in a Hollywood  column discussed Mae West.
• • "Mae West Still Ahead in Her Battle with Age" • •
• • Erskine Johnson wrote: Hollywood — Mae West is still saying, "Come up and see me sometime." But the traffic isn't as heavy as it once was. It has been a long time, you know.
• • Erskine Johnson wrote: The indestructible Mae has lived for 26 years now in the same six-room apartment on the sixth floor of a fashionable apartment house not far from Hollywood and Vine . . .
• • Erskine Johnson wrote: At times, Mae is moving to a beach house she recently purchased to escape the smog. . . .
• • Source: Erskine Johnson's syndicated column, printed in Racine Journal Times Bulletin; published on 12 April 1959
• • 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 4,710th 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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Mae West: Queen of Sex

"An Open Letter to MAE WEST" was written by J. Eugene Chrisman, Western Editor, Motion Picture. His was a unique perspective as both an impartial journalist and yet an avowed fan. Let's take a look. This is Part 5 of 8 excerpts.   
• • Mae West: Helped her down-and-out pals  • •
• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: I'd like to know how many hungry families you've fed and how many down-and-out pals of other days you have given a new start, but I'm not asking you. That's your affair and no one else's. I do know of many of them, but I'm not telling about them here.

• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: SOMEONE once wrote that you are just a parody of Sex, but I know that not a leading man, from Cary Grant to Cavanaugh, have come away from even almost making love to you without being affected. I know that you are the very Queen of Sex, no doubt even greater than Cleopatra who was just a girl who took boat rides on the Nile, thousands of years ago.
• • Mae West: How you get to people, Mae • • ...
• • To be continued.
• • Source: Motion Picture; published in their issue dated for August 1935.
• • On Monday, 9 April 1928 on Broadway • •
• • "Diamond Lil" written by and starring Mae West opened at the Royale Theatre in NYC on Monday, 9 April 1928. It would be her defining role.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The resemblance of Peggy Livesey's Courtesan to Mae West, for example, did not pass unnoticed.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "It's all a lot of strudel."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article in Australia mentioned Mae West.
• • "I'm No Angel"  — — So Says Mae West • •
• • See Her at the Tivoli • •
• • The West Wyalong Advocate wrote:  She shuffles in hearts and deals in diamonds. The Gold standard doesn't mean a thing to this "Come Up and See Me Sometime" girl, who loves her men 'til their diamonds run out.
• • Hear her sing, "That Dallas Man"; "I Want You, I Need You"; "I'm No Angel"; and "I've Found a New Way To Go to Town."
• • When she is "Bad" Oh Boy, is she Good!  Misbehaving Mae does 'em wrong again in the right way.
• • You'll gasp when she sings "That Dallas Man," and several other song bits. Just a rough Diamond in a platinum setting!  Mae West in "I'm No Angel" — — see it at the Tivoli Theatre (West Wyalong) this Tuesday,  Wednesday, and Thursday. The supporting attraction is ...
• • Source: The West Wyalong Advocate;  published on Tuesday, 9 April 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 4,709th 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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Mae West: Impassive at Bouts

"An Open Letter to MAE WEST" was written by J. Eugene Chrisman, Western Editor, Motion Picture. His was a unique perspective as both an impartial journalist and yet an avowed fan. Let's take a look. This is Part 4 of 8 excerpts.   
• • Mae West: I wish you'd tell me , Mae • •
• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: Only a Mae West could put a line like that over!
• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: But one thing, as well as I know you, I wish you would tell me. Why is it when you go to the prize fights, you never make the slightest demonstration? You never show a moment of excitement, even when one boy almost knocks another into your lap? Why is it?

• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: I would like to have some of the Brain Trust get out statistics showing how much you and your screen characterizations have done to keep the Depression as little disastrous as it has been.
• • Mae West: Helped her down-and-out pals • • ...
• • To be continued.
• • Source: Motion Picture; published in their issue dated for August 1935.
• • On Saturday, 8 April 1933 • •
• • Mae West says she swaggers because she just had to attract attention to herself some way. That was all part of a fascinating interview that appeared in The Scranton Republican on Saturday, 8 April 1933.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The Confidential Magazine trial involved Mae West, Robert Mitchum, Maureen O'Hara, June Allyson, Walter Pidgeon, Liberace, and others.
• • California attorney Jerry Giesler, speaking for many Hollywood insiders, declared war on Confidential Magazine: "My clients have decided to fight... We'll hound them through every court in the country.  We'll file civil libel suits and criminal libel complaints...The smut is going to stop."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I was always famous for what I wore, not for what I didn't wear."  
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Dorothy Manners column mentioned Mae West.
• • Mae West, in a white satin evening gown and a pompadour, stole the big scene at Doris and Jules Stein's huge dinner at Misty Mountain, their Beverly Hills place. There were many guests who were younger and more up to the minute, but it was still Mae all the way.
• • She was escorted by her longtime friend, director George Cukor, and every time she opened her rosebud mouth, you would have sworn she was going to say "Beulah, peel me a grape." There's only one Miss West, but the way she plays it, there's enough there for everyone.  ...
• • Source: Dorothy Manners' syndicated Hollywood column rpt in The Arizona Republic; published on Sunday, 7 April 1968
• • 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 4,708th 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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Mae West: Pooh-Poohed

"An Open Letter to MAE WEST" was written by J. Eugene Chrisman, Western Editor, Motion Picture. His was a unique perspective as both an impartial journalist and yet an avowed fan. Let's take a look. This is Part 3 of 8 excerpts.   
• • Mae West: We are both Kentucky Colonels • •
• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: Then we are both Kentucky Colonels, too, and you were kind enough to let me share a small tidbit of your own fame, by posing with me holding my colonel's commission. You never touch likker or I'd make you a real, Kentucky mint julep.
• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: Over the years, though I have heard numerous people in Hollywood knock you in many ways, Mae, personally I've always stood up for a pal.
• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: I've pooh-poohed this marriage thing, for your real friends believe you. Anyway, who cares really? Whether you have a husband or not, this is your own private business.

• • Mae West and John Miljan • •
• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: But of all the snappy lines you have put on the screen in your motion pictures, Mae, my favorite is the one in "Belle of the Nineties" — — the scene when John Miljan showed you the "old master" painting and your witty comeback was: "It looks like an old mistress to me!"
• • Mae West: Well, I wish you'd tell me, Mae • • ...
• • To be continued.
• • Source: Motion Picture; published in their issue dated for August 1935.
• • On Wednesday, 7 April 1954 in Variety • •
• • The death of James Timony [on Monday, 5 April 1954] was announced in The L.A. Times on April 6th and in Variety on the 7th.
• • Mae West was prostrated by grief at the death of her long-term companion. She was unable to receive callers and dealt with his funeral arrangements. Timony's body was sent back to Brooklyn and buried in a family plot at Holy Cross cemetery.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • It is mid-afternoon but Mae West is in a negligee revealing that the years you politely try not to think about have been fantastically kind. Hair kept as blonde as ever; and a smooth face untouched, Mae swears, by plastic surgery; and smooth hands that tell no tales and the seemingly unchanged hour-glass figure.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "The best way to hold a man is in your arms."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A California college campus reviewer discussed Mae West.
• • Film critic Bull wrote: Despite the fact that there is practically a complete absence of coherent plot, "My Little Chickadee" is still funny. Mae West portrays a woman of you-know-what repute who handles a six-shooter as easily as a fingernail polisher.
• • Bull wrote: For a carpetbag full of liver-pill ads which look like century notes she marries Fields; only the marriage is a fake. Cuthbert Twillie (W.C. Fields) later senses a "Ubangi in the fuel supply."
• • Bull wrote:  Complications are furnished by a masked bandit, the town boss, a righteous editor, and Fields' becoming the sheriff.  . . .
• • Source: The Stanford Daily; published on Friday, 5 April 1940
• • 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 4,707th 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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