• • Image from a Cracked Mirror • •
• • Mae West has issued more “bon mots" than any wit • •
• • Jacoba Atlas wrote: No one can deny that she’s issued more “bon mots" than any wit since Oscar Wilde and certainly more than Hollywood ever saw even in the heyday of Dorothy Parker, and despite her Sunset Boulevard trappings, she is right there with perceptive insights.
• • Jacoba Atlas wrote: For instance, “Life’s unpredictable, but you can count on glamour to see you through hell." (Could that hell include her own old age?) Or, “I’ve never had children. They take a lot out of you, mentally, physically, psychologically, but they also give you strength.”
• • Jacoba Atlas wrote: Any woman who has debated the contradictions of procreation and womanhood would echo that sentiment.
• • Mae West is a great ad for health food and self-control • • …
• • This long profile by Jacoba Atlas will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Los Angeles Free Press, Volume 11, issue 517; published on Friday, 14 June 1974.
• • On Saturday, 13 May 1961 • •
• • On Saturday, 13 May 1961, the "Coop" lost his battle with cancer.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West’s ex-husband, Frank Wallace, named the boxer Albert “Chalky” Wright among those having an affair with West in his divorce filing.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "So far as plots are concerned, I have gathered them by the hundreds in my years of stage experience. The rule that 'the plot is the thing' still holds good. As particular as I am with selection of characters and their dialogue, I realize that the story must hold together. It must build and never let down."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on a Philadelphia cab driver mentioned Mae West.
• • "A Cab Driver's View of People" • •
• • Louis Antosh wrote: Cab driver Vincent Scullin has been called into the city of Philadelphia on several occasions. On one of these, a man stopped him outside the old Ritz Hotel back in the 1940s and asked to use his cab. But I'll ask you please not to smoke while Miss West is in the cab, said the man.
• • Louis Antosh wrote: Vincent Scullin turned his head to the right and recalled his thoughts back then. Could it be Mae West? But she always carries those long cigarette holders in the movies. Then the hotel door opens and out walks Mae West! And brother let me tell you she looked like a million bucks. White fur coat and dark glasses. Just between you and me and the gatepost. Whoo whoo! ...
• • Source: Delaware County Daily Times (page 1); published on Saturday, 13 May 1967
• • 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 4,473rd 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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