Mae West: Mr. Rights

Despite all you think you know about MAE WEST, there’s always something new. Did you know some of  Mae's opinions about single life, for instance?
• • Here’s an intimate interview with Mae West — — first seen in 2009. This is Part 1 of 29 parts.
• • From the Archive: A Candid (and Entertaining) Interview with Mae West • •
• • the sound of Mae West's multi-layered false eyelashes • •
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote: Only after Mae had been speaking for a while did I realise that it was the sound of her heavily mascaraed, multi-layered false eyelashes brushing her cheeks whenever she blinked.
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote:  Our meeting had been arranged by director George Cukor, who had known Mae since the mid-1920s, when they were both working on the stage in New York.
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote:  Mae West said this about marriage: “They used to ask me, ‘How come, Mae, you never married? Was it because you couldn’t find the right person? Because you never found Mr. Right?’ It wasn’t because I didn’t find the right man. It was because I kept finding him. I found too many Mr. Rights.”
• • Mae West said, “I don’t like to give it away free.” • •  . . .
• • This long and fascinating interview will be continued tomorrow.
• • Source: AnOther Magazine; published  Autumn—Winter 2009 issue; rpt on Wednesday, 27 May 2020.
• • On Sunday, 17 July 1932 • •
• • Interviewed for The L.A. Times by California reporter Muriel Babcock,  Mae West told her, "The screen doesn't require as much acting of a certain type. The camera catches the slightest facial movements, the slightest twitch of an eye." The complete interview appeared in the weekend edition on Sunday, 17 July 1932.
• • 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 • •
• • Peter J. McGuinness (1888—1948), elected to the Board of Aldermen representing the 15th A.D. (Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY), said he has seen very little he has really enjoyed since Marie Dressler died. Among the exceptions are Mae West's movies. 
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I live to live high up."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article  about the bustlinee mentioned Mae West.
• • "Bustline Back to Its Own Say the Stylists" • •
• • Dorothy Roe, Associated Press Fashion Writer, explained from her desk in New York that the American bustline comes into its own again in the previews of fall fashions being staged this week for the nations press.  
• • Mae West pockets are the device adopted by Pauline Trigere to accent Hollywood's favorite curves. Mae West pockets are distended pockets placed just above the bustline for added illusion ...

• • Source: Associated Press; published on Wednesday, 12 July 1950
• • 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 4,520th 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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