Mae West: Undress for Men

Despite all you think you know about MAE WEST, there’s always something new. Did you know that Mae West admitted she dressed for women and undressed for men, for instance? 
• • This intimate interview with Mae West was first seen in 2009. This is Part 19 of 29 parts.
• • From the Archive: A Candid (and Entertaining) Interview with Mae West • • 
• • Mae West asked: “Do you have something to hide?” • •    
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote:  Mae West continued: “Never? Oh, that’s a shame. You’d look good fixed up. Remind me before you leave. I can let you have some powder and lipstick.”
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote:  She noticed the Hermès scarf tied around my neck. “Is that scarf because you’re cold,” Mae asked, “or do you have something to hide?”
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote:  I took it off. “That’s better,” Mae said. “Now, if you’d unbutton a few buttons ... Men like it if you show them a thing or two. I dress for women and undress for men.”

• • Charlotte Chandler wrote:  Mae West continued: “I can smell you’re telling the truth about smoking, because if you smoked, your clothes and hair would smell from it, especially your hair. You know, I never liked being touched by a man who smoked.”
• • Mae West said: “I was sorta tired” • •  . . . 
• • This long and fascinating interview will be continued tomorrow.
• • Source: AnOther Magazine; published  Autumn—Winter 2009 issue; rpt on Wednesday, 27 May 2020.     
• • On Tuesday, 6 August 1912 • •
• • In 1912 a teenage Mae West was invited to perform again at Hammerstein's Victoria. The singing comedienne was booked for a week-long engagement that began on Tuesday, 6 August 1912.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West is driving around these days in a bullet-proof steel car.  (Those threats, you know.) 
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Everyone else that gets in the money out here buys a forty-room house, hires a dozen servants, and gets ritzy. But not me. I'd be lonesome."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Hollywood's "Secret Police" • •
• • On several occasions, members of my Hollywood squad have been assigned as twenty-four-hours-a-day guards to certain stars who have been threatened.
• • During Mae West's recent court case, when she gallantly defied kidnap and death threats and testified against gangsters who had robbed her, one of my investigators lived in her house, rode in her car and guarded her on the set, itself, for weeks.  . . .

• • Source: Motion Picture; published in their August 1934 issue
• • 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 4,534th 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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