Mae West: Fueled Fame

A Los Angeles Times cartoon showed MAE WEST yanking G.B. Shaw's beard. Since she avidly followed theatre gossip, it’s possible Mae was familiar with his prostitute play, “Mrs. Warren's Profession,” featuring a streetwalker who is now a wealthy madam. If only they could chat during Shaw Fest, which will present “Sex” this summer.  This is Part 3 of 10 segments.
• • Shaw Festival revives Mae West’s racy Broadway hit “Sex” • •
• • Controversy as fuel for fame • •
• • J. Kelly Nestruck wrote: “This was such a big court case and it really brought her a ton of publicity,” says Pamela Robertson Wojcik, a University of Chicago professor whose books include Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna. “It helped fuel her stardom.”
• • J. Kelly Nestruck wrote: As Mae West, who claimed to have worn silk underwear during her stay at Jefferson Market women’s prison, put it herself: “Considering what Sex got me, a few days in the pen and a $500 fine ain’t too bad a deal.”

• • J. Kelly Nestruck wrote: The acclaimed director Peter Hinton-Davis (formerly Hinton) has wanted to direct Sex for a long time, since he read the script when it was first published in the late 1990s as part of a collection of West’s plays that had long sat gathering dust in the Library of Congress.
• • Peter Hinton-Davis has wanted to direct Sex for a long time • •  
• • This preview article will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The Globe and Mail; published on Monday, 6 May 2019.
• • On Monday, 31 May 1999 • •
• • There was a 30-minute episode "Mae West" on TV's E! Mysteries and Scandals: Season 2, Episode 14. It aired on Monday, 31 May 1999.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The three movie sets an outside photographer positively can't enter in Hollywood are those of Mae West, Shirley Temple and Greta Garbo.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: " "Beauty may only be skin deep, but it's what's underneath that makes the skin beautiful. Keep healthy, and you'll keep good looking." 
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Photoplay mentioned Mae West.
• • “My Little Chickadee” — — Universal • •
• • Mae West is the little flower of the frontier, and W. C. Fields masquerades as a bold bad bandit and shoots Indians with a sling shot. The result is just about what you'd expect — ribald but genuinely comic, with both stars at top form.  . . .
• • Source: Photoplay; published in the issue dated for July 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 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 4,200 blog posts. Wow!  

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fourteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4225th 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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