Mae West: Dirty Sex

Was the heavily air-brushed memoir that MAE WEST published in 1959 “scandalous”? Vanity Fair seems to think so. See if you agree. This is Part 2 of 14 segments.
• • “When I’m Bad, I’m Better” — — Mae West’s Sensational Life in Her Own Words • •
• • PBS’s Mae West: Dirty Blonde delves into the life of a savvy sexpot—but even it is not half as scandalous as West’s 1959 autobiography.
• • Underneath the diamonds, Mae West had a message • •
• • Hadley Hall Meares wrote: “Underneath the blonde wigs and the diamonds and the wisecracks, she had a message and an agenda,” Dirty Blonde co-director Sally Rosenthal said in a statement to Vanity Fair. “She wanted to offer an alternative version of womanhood, in which overt sexual desire wasn’t shameful or dirty but an expression of independence.”

• • Hadley Hall Meares wrote: Behind this unwavering independence was a rock-solid belief in herself that would carry West through many a professional and personal rock and roll. “The letter ‘I’ appears very often on these pages,” she writes in Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It. “That is because I have been given the liberty, or have taken it, of telling my own story in my own way — and I like a story that takes its time.”  
• • Mae West: The Spotlight • • .. .
• • This 14-part article will be continued tomorrow.
• • Source: Vanity Fair; published on Tuesday, 16 June 2020.  
• • On Saturday, 25 August 1934 • •
• • On Saturday, 25 August 1934, syndicated gossip columnist Louella Parsons wrote:  Snapshots of Hollywood collected at random: . . . Mae West, dripping with orchids, in a ringside seat with her boy friend [sic] Jim Timony; Raoul Walsh, Adolph Zukor and dozens of other film celebrities, watching these bouts  ...
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Larry Sloan moved to Los Angeles from New York after serving in World War II, and made a name for himself through the gossipy, table-hopping column he wrote for the Hollywood Citizen News.
• • As a publicist, Larry Sloan represented a roster of Hollywood stars that included Mae West and Elizabeth Taylor.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "If you can't go straight, you've got to go around."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Mail Online mentioned Mae West.
• • “How to have it all: Life lessons from the original goal-getters” • •
• • Elizabeth Foley and Beth Coates wrote: If you’re feeling down with your dumpiness, remember the wise words attributed to Hollywood legend Mae West: “Curve: the loveliest distance between two points.” ...
• • Source: The Mail Online; published on Saturday, 25 August 2018
• • 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 4,547th 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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