• • Modern Screen wrote: We've finally run down those rumors about Mae West. There is a new Mae. Proof that satisfied us was that she no longer will ask the lads to come up and see her sometime. For she's given up that sixth-story apartment in Hollywood, and moved into a Beverly Hills bungalow.
• • Modern Screen wrote: And instead of lolling on white bear rugs in her leisure moments, Mae now devotes herself to raising vegetables in the back yard. It's all sort of beautiful.
• • Source: Modern Screen; published in the issue dated for July 1937
• • On Wednesday, 29 August 1979 • •
• • Mae West didn't need the money and rarely did things of this nature. But with Poland Spring, she was merely endorsing a product she had personally used for years.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • In 1929, when profits were beginning to dip, Carl Laemmle tried, without success, to bring Mae West and her controversial show to Hollywood via Universal Studios.
• • Two years later, with the studio on the brink of bankruptcy, Paramount risked everything by taking on the woman and her reputation, along with the property that had enjoyed such success on Broadway. As always it was money, not morals, that ruled Hollywood.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “Always give the man the benefit of the doubt. Fraternize, don't glamorize. If he can take it, let him have it, and pick up the check yourself once in awhile."
• • Mae West said: "She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An academic paper mentioned Mae West.
• • Kinne Chapin wrote: Screen siren Marlene Dietrich famously accused Mae West of being responsible for the wellspring of morality that came with the PCA in 1934.
• • Kinne Chapin wrote: Marlene Dietrich said of Mae West, “I like Mae, but it is all her fault that we have the Hays Office and this childish censorship. So American — to see sex everywhere and then try to hide it.”
• • Kinne Chapin wrote: Hollywood and the public felt that Mae West’s films were dangerous and being handled with care, even if the PCA treated them with standard procedure.
• • Source: “Good Taste and Decency” — — Female Sexuality in the Production Code Era, 1930-‐1955 by Kinne Chapin, Honors Thesis Seminar; published in 2012
• • 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 15th 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 4,200 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4290th 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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Editors gave their spin! It's more that editors made things up out of whole cloth! Growing vegetables, indeed.
ReplyDelete• • Someone was thinking of CORN,eh?
ReplyDeleteLinda J. Sandahl, right you are. If Mae West EVER had any interest in vegetables such as carrots, it was strictly how many carats her diamonds were!
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