• • MW BLOG: QUESTION #7: Since Mae West did not do a lot of TV — — like comedienne Lucille Ball (who has already been honored with a postage stamp) — — and her reputation has not been burnished by The Roger Richman Agency nor the group he sold it to (Corbis), and since Mae had no children who are devoted to nor invested in her "legacy management," how enduring is her legacy, in your view?
• • JILL WATTS: ANSWER #7: It is an interesting general question about public figures and “legacy management.” Marketing the image and work of artists who become public figures can generate considerable income for estates. I think your question is good because it implies that, after death, "legacy" rests on someone else actively assuring that the image and work continues to circulate. I think that it flows two ways — — there needs to be someone (or some entity) to spearhead the marketing part and then there needs to be the support of the public (i.e., fans and those who find the art important).
• • The legacy of Mae West • • . . .
• • This exciting interview with Prof. Jill Watts will be continued on the next post.
• • Recommended Reading: “Mae West: An Icon in Black and White” by Jill Watts [Oxford University Press; paperback edition, 2003]; 400 pages.
• • On Tuesday, 29 August 1989 • •
• • Arlena Gibson's article "Go West, Young Man," which referenced Mae West and the opportunities she gave to young actors, was printed in The Village Voice, a weekly, on Tuesday, 29 August 1989 (pages 37, 38).
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • After the Hollywood newcomer's death, Mark Hellinger noted: “I found Dorothy Dell pretty, very pert and had a sweet smile. Everything Dorothy said and did was offered in a Mae West sort of way — — a very young Mae West-ish sort of way. And Mae didn’t reach the screen until long after that Follies had closed.”
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I don't approve of nudity in films. It’s just not right. But I can see what's happening. The picture makers have run out of titles; that's why you get all those long titles nowadays. They've also run out of plots."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Mail Online mentioned Mae West.
• • How to have it all: Life lessons from the original goal-getters • •
• • Elizabeth Foley and Beth Coates wrote: Mae was just over five-foot-tall, a great wit and so famously well upholstered that WW2 sailors called their life jackets ‘Mae Wests.’ She was proud of her body, even if it didn’t fit with the fashion of her time. In later life, she installed a mirror over her bed and adorned her piano with her own naked statue. For a Hollywood starlet, she was unusual. She was 38 years old when she was signed by Paramount Pictures in 1932 and was happy to be perceived as a risqué kind of dame, even though she endured dissing from the likes of author Graham Greene, who referred to her as ‘an overfed python’. But she ended up an icon: Salvador Dalí designed a sofa shaped like her lips and she appears in Frida Kahlo’s painting My Dress Hangs There. Mae’s nutritional advice? ‘I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.’ …
• • Source: Article by Elizabeth Foley and Beth Coates; published on Saturday, 25 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 4034th 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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