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 7 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.
• • Mae West: I met the sodden gilded people • •
• • Hadley Hall Meares wrote: Mae West said: “So, this is the place a leaf falls up in some canyon and they tell you it’s winter,” she quipped upon her arrival in Hollywood.
• • Hadley Hall Meares wrote: Mae West was decidedly unimpressed. “I saw some of the town, met some of the sodden gilded people,” she writes. “I saw that under the daffy California sun there had hatched out as queer an industry and as odd a collection of self-made men as ever crossed the Rockies…. The studios were giant factories turning out the same length of scented tripe, dressed up with the same rubber stamp features of large cowlike heads, mammary glands, and 10-foot-high closeups of nostrils you could drive a Cadillac into.”
• • Mae West: I refused to appear unless . . . • •
• • This 14-part article will be continued tomorrow.
• • Source: Vanity Fair; published on Tuesday, 16 June 2020.
• • On Monday, 1 September 1941 • •
• • A stage show "The Silver Screen" had its debut on that date at the Wilshire Bowl nightclub (5665 Wilshire Blvd).
• • Mae attended with her usual companion, Jim Timony.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The only trouble with Mae West's doormat deluxe is that it doesn't mean what it says.
• • This foot-wiper fantastic is made of finest velvet in shades of white and blue. It is installed where all may walk at the stoop of her studio bungalow and it has embroidered upon it a reminiscent phrase: "Come up and see me sometime."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I don't approve of nudity in films. It’s just not right. But I can see what's happening. The picture makers have run out of titles; that's why you get all those long titles nowadays. They've also run out of plots."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Motion Picture Daily mentioned Mae West.
• • We want our critics to see the list of enduring favorites that are to be made into films.
• • We are laying little stress on the Mae West pictures, the Gables, the Crawfords, the Rogerses because we know that the admirers of these stars will come out as usual, but we are stressing the pictures made from popular books because we know that is the best and most positive way to answer our critics, and at the same time reach that large group of folks who only rarely attend our theatres. …
• • Source: Motion Picture Daily; published on Saturday, 1 September 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 4,552nd 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.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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