• • Mae West and the Criminal Underworld • •
• • JILL WATTS: Additionally, some of these relationships were with figures, like Madden, who cultivated strict privacy because of his underworld activities. Additionally, she had relationships with African American men. Interracial relationships at the time were highly forbidden and it not only would have hurt her career but endangered her black lovers.
• • MW BLOG: QUESTION #5: Mae West did not have any female proteges nor was she ever photographed with a female identified as “a close friend” (though she did seem to trust Dolly Dempsey). She did express disdain for lesbians. Was she that insecure to the end, did she hate women, were all women perceived as “competitors,” or was it something else in your opinion?
• • JILL WATTS: ANSWER #5: This is an interesting question because, in part, Mae is currently being increasingly recognized as an early LBGT ally. I think there is no doubt that she was very comfortable with gay men and was interested in respecting their choices and elevating their lives.
• • The Gays and Mae • • ...
• • This exciting interview with Prof. Jill Watts will be continued on the next post.
• • On Thursday, 20 August 1970 • •
• • Hollywood film-land types received an invitation to "Sights and Sounds of Mae West" and the event was scheduled for Thursday, 20 August 1970.
• • No! Mae West never performed at Neir’s • •
• • Mae West never performed at Neir's — — nor did she ever set foot in this all-male bastion of sweaty factory laborers.
• • For decades, laborers went to bars to drink, relax, spit, smoke cigars, curse, discuss politics, and (most importantly) to get away from wives and women.
• • Learn more about Woodhaven, a factory hub during the brief time the West family resided there.
• • LINK: The Truth about Mae's life in Woodhaven and Neir's Tavern
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The Hollywood Reporter announced this: Leo McCarey is searching for a Beef Trust chorus. Director wants a bulging line for the Mae West picture, "It Ain't No Sin."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “They were most courteous; they didn't want anything to happen to me before I got to Welfare Island [i.e., The Women's Workhouse], I guess. I was ushered into a waiting-room. There was a colored woman, with a gold badge, in charge.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Globe and Mail mentioned Mae West.
• • J. Kelly Nestruck wrote: The Shaw Festival will look like its old self again next season.
• • J. Kelly Nestruck wrote: On Friday, the Niagara-on-the-Lake repertory theatre’s artistic director, Tim Carroll, announced a playbill for 2019 that will mostly comprise works by Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries – from the Irish playwright’s own five-hour epic “Man and Superman”; to a new translation of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 verse romance “Cyrano de Bergerac”; to a rarely produced [sic] 1926 play by Mae West called "Sex" (set in Montreal, Canada's red-light district). . . .
• • Source: The Globe and Mail; published on Friday, 10 August 2018
• • 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 14th anniversary • •
• • Thank you for reading,
sending questions, and posting comments during these past fourteen years. Not
long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently
when we completed 4,000 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •• • The Mae West Blog was started fourteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4027th 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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