Mae West: Projecting Sex

Was MAE WEST really misquoted? Let’s find out. This is Part 7 of eight sections.
• • 1930s sex symbol Mae West has been misquoted for decades, book reveals • •
• • definitely was not a one-man woman • •
• • Stephanie Nolasco wrote:  “But when they saw the film, they realized she’s hilarious… Mae was a very headstrong person and she knew her business. She wasn’t going to let people run over her… and she definitely was not a one-man woman.”
• • Stephanie Nolasco wrote: Mae West’s follow-up film, 1933’s “I’m No Angel,” became an even bigger sensation. The Los Angeles Times noted that after three more movies, West was earning the highest salary of any Hollywood star with $300,000 per picture and “an additional $100,000 for story or scenario.”
• • Stephanie Nolasco wrote:  And West was proud to project sex on her own terms. “That was her agenda,” said Vieira. “That was what she believed in. She thought it was good, it was healthy and she was going to do it.”
• • Stephanie Nolasco wrote:  Mae West flourished in Hollywood, but never forgot her roots.
• • “I lived like a man, in some ways” • • . . .
• • This article by Stephanie Nolasco will be concluded on the next post.
• • Source: Fox News; published on Wednesday, 4 September 2019.
• • On Saturday, 26 September 1931 in Billboard • •

• • About "The Constant Sinner," Jack Mehler wrote that "it has the makings of a good money show, both for Miss West and the Shuberts who are reported in on it." Mehler's entire review was published in Billboard's issue dated for Saturday, 26 September 1931.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West was screaming in her excitement at the Friday night fights.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I'm for the masses and the masses are, it seems, all for Diamond Lil."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Daily Variety mentioned Mae West.
• • That Mae West 'marriage' report from Milwaukee to effect that she wed one Frank Wallace while playing In vaudeville there back in 1911, had all the New York city desks and news syndicates scouring the town for past info.
• • All wanted data on Miss West's age, as well as the marriage in the belief that one would prove the other.
• • Jim Timony rushed into town. …
• • Source: Variety; published on Wednesday, 24 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 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 4,300 blog posts. Wow!  

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4310th 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/
________
Source: https://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml   
Mae West
• • Photo: • • Mae West • • in 1931 • •
• • Feed — — http://feeds2.feedburner.com/MaeWest
NYC  Mae West