Mae West: Too Vulgar

Was MAE WEST really misquoted? Let’s find out. This is Part 6 of eight sections.
• • 1930s sex symbol Mae West has been misquoted for decades, book reveals • •
• • one of Hollywood’s biggest sex symbols • •
• • Stephanie Nolasco wrote:  Not only did “She Done Him Wrong” broke box office records in the United States, but it drew audiences throughout the world and saved Paramount from bankruptcy.
• • Stephanie Nolasco wrote:  Famous for her zany catch-phrases and double entendres, the vaudeville actress became known as one of Hollywood’s biggest sex symbols in the 1920s and 1930s.
• • Stephanie Nolasco wrote:  “I would say 80 percent of that character is her,” Vieira noted. “Initially people thought those movie posters were awful, too vulgar.”
• • Mae definitely was not a one-man woman • • . . .  
• • This article by Stephanie Nolasco will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Fox News; published on Wednesday, 4 September 2019.
• • On Tuesday, 25 September 1934 in Variety • •
• • A lengthy review of "Belle of the Nineties" appeared in Variety on this date.
• • Abel wrote: "Belle of the Nineties" is a little of everything. Even "St. Louis Blues" and "Memphis Blues" are in it — — she did "Frankie and Johnny" in "Diamond Lil."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •

• • The Motion Picture Hall of Fame: And do not forget the Hollywood stars who go down to this building from time to time. Mae West, Binnie Barnes, Edward Arnold, Gloria Swanson, Herbert Marshall, Buck Jones, Evelyn Venable, Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Johnny Mack Brown, Isabel Jewell, . . .
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Well, I've always had to battle for my rights."
• • Mae West said: "I'm very boring in real life. So I made up the walk and the talk."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Modern Screen mentioned Mae West.
• • Dareos, famous Hollywood seer, gives his annual forecast • • 
• • As Told to Harry Lan • •
• • Other charts into which Dareos has peered for Modern Screen give him less clear, less definite pictures.
• • Dareos' predictions carry the promise of continued success and unmarred future for Michael Whalen, June Lang, Gladys Swarthout, Jimmy Stewart, Gladys George, Mae West, Fred MacMurray, Bing Crosby, and Bette Davis.
• • For other movie personalities, Dareos sees unhappiness and sorrow that will mar a year otherwise fairly tranquil. …
• • Source: Modern Screen; published in the issue dated for February 1937
• • 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 4309th 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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