Mae West: Prompted Controversy

The films of MAE WEST are being shown on college campuses. A showing at Indiana University inspired this fascinating article by Katherine Johnson, a PhD Candidate in Communication and Culture. This is Part 5 of 6 segments.
• • Mae West: More Than Meets the Eye • •
• • Mae West shaped film history • •
• • Katherine Johnson wrote: Mae West may not have starred in as many films as a lot of her contemporaries, but her career was one that has shaped film history. Many remember her in 1936’s Klondike Annie, 1940’s My Little Chickadee, and 1970’s Myra Breckinridge.
• • Katherine Johnson wrote: At five feet tall, the bawdy woman was certainly more than just a risqué actress. She not only starred in several classic pre-Code and early Code films, but the films in which she acted also often pushed against societal mores. 

In 1932 Mae wore her diamond necklace, stolen a year later

• • Katherine Johnson wrote: Even more significant is that fact that many of these films that prompted controversy were written by West herself. Whether writing additional dialogue, as she did for Night After Night and others, or adapting her own plays for film (She Done Him Wrong, for instance), West had a good amount of creative control during the majority of her career, even while struggling against Hollywood’s Production Code.
• • Mae West’s impact has lasted far beyond her career • • …
• • To be concluded on the next post.
• • Source: Article by Katherine Johnson for Indiana University Cinema… A Place for Film™; posted on Wednesday, 26 September 2018.
• • On Wednesday, 10 March 1926 in Variety • •
• • A news item noted that a new play by "Jane Mast" (Mae West) called "Sex" was coming to Broadway. This announcement ran in Variety's issue dated for 10 March 1926.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Why, Mae West was asked, has she chosen to return to the strain of movie work? "I owe it to my fans," she said. "I get hundreds and hundreds of letters from people begging me to make another movie. It's not hard work. In fact, I'm enjoying it."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Women can make men do anything they wish them to do, if they're clever, and they needn't be gold-diggers, either."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article in a Florida newspaper mentioned Mae West.
• • Marty Fugate wrote: “Salvador Dali: Gardens of the Mind” blossomed at Selby Botanical Gardens. ...
• • Marty Fugate wrote: From here, the path takes you deeper into Dali’s fevered mind.
• • Marty Fugate wrote: Large-scale recreations evoke basic elements of his symbolic vocabulary.
• • Marty Fugate wrote: Eggs. Eyeballs. Butterflies. Spirals. Crutches. Boats. Pianos. Mae West. Dali’s mustache. …
• • Source: Herald Tribune; published on Saturday, 29 February 2020
• • 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 4,400 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,427th 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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