Mae West: Be Naked

Despite all you think you know about MAE WEST, there’s always something new. Did you know why Mae wanted an interviewer to try on her black silk negligee, for instance? 
• • This intimate interview with Mae West was first seen in 2009. This is Part 13 of 29 parts.
• • From the Archive: A Candid (and Entertaining) Interview with Mae West • •
• • Mae West didn’t like to give interviews to women • •     
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote: Later, when she was showing me her wardrobe, she encouraged me to try on some of the clothes. I was hesitant, but she insisted I model a black peignoir.
• • “Doesn’t it make you feel sexy?” Mae West  asked.
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote: Her words were barely spoken when she looked at me in disgust. I had put it on over my blouse and skirt. “You can’t get the feeling like that,” she explained. “You have to be naked underneath.”
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote: Perhaps Mae didn’t like to give interviews to women because she couldn’t act her part. With a woman, she had to reveal more of the private person, because she couldn’t use the time to be flirtatious or playful. “With a woman, Mae West has to be there and can’t just send Diamond Lil,” she told me.
• • was there more to Mae West than to Diamond Lil? • •  . . . 
• • This long and fascinating interview will be continued tomorrow.
• • Source: AnOther Magazine; published  Autumn—Winter 2009 issue; rpt on Wednesday, 27 May 2020.
• • On Thursday, 29 July 1954 • •
• • The wire services announced:  "Mae West Introducing Beef Cake to Night Club."
• • Starring in The Mae West Revue, gorgeous Dick DuBois, Mr. America of 1954, brought down the house in what Miss West called "the first bare chest act for lady customers in history."
• • "I know what to give the women," Mae West murmured after the show. "A woman likes to look at any male body."
• • July 2004: Mae West Blog launches • •
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its Sweet 16th anniversary • •

• • What are we up to, writing about the Brooklyn-born bombshell for 16 sweet years now?
• • We've been the main Mae source for documentaries, solo shows, and biographies— — offering a trove of info, quotes, along with Westian arcana, thanks to 4,500+ posts.
• • We’re still here to keep Mae mavens up to date, correct errors, celebrate each revival of a play she wrote, post the latest Westian stage and book reviews. And answer our fan mail!
• • The ghost light’s still on. Come up and see Mae every day.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West is looking thinner. She has told friends the loss is 11 pounds, noted an Associated Press columnist.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "Jazz suited me — — I liked the beat and emotions."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A Hartford daily mentioned Mae West. 
• • It will take two days of retakes and the remainder of two weeks time for the Mae West picture, once called "It Ain't No Sin" and now dubbed "That St. Louis Woman," to be re-submitted to the censor regents, before a final release is possible.
• • Rumors that the entire picture would have to be re-shot died down with the studio's definitely naming July 14, 1934 for the possible preview time.
• • Mae West has been hard hit by censor rulings since her daring and different approach to movie audiences in her first feature picture, acclaimed by the public with such a tremendous rush that she was swept to stardom in a jiffy, led to more daring treatment of her subsequent releases. If Mae West can put it over the new censor rulings, then she is the actress that her most ardent admirers say she is.  ...

• • Source: Hartford Courant; published on Saturday, 30 June 1934
• • 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 16th 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 4,500 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,528th 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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