Mae West: Noele Gordon

Folks in Manchester, England fondly remember when MAE WEST came to Great Britain.   This is Part 2 of 2.
• • Mae West says ‘Come up and see me sometime at the Palace Theatre, Manchester • •
• • ‘Diamond Lil’ • •  
• • Marilyn Shalks wrote: The main star of the show was Mae West — — but it also starred Noele Gordon, then 28 years old, who became a television icon as Meg Richardson in “Crossroad Motel.” In 1947 she was a rising star learning her trade in various Rep companies up and down the country.
• • Marilyn Shalks wrote: Diamond Lil, Queen of the Bowery, was a diamond-draped prostitute, a singer in a gin joint, and the live-in lover of the Boss of the Bowery, Gus Jordan. He was the man in Lil’s life, who showered her with jewels and furs. He was a candidate for the sheriff and a sex trafficker who operated from his saloon on Chatham Square.
• • Marilyn Shalks wrote: Mae West wrote the play with Adeline Leitzbach [sic].
• • [Editor: This is incorrect, however, Mae and Adeline did collaborate on other plays.]

• • Marilyn Shalks wrote: Mae West correctly believed that the American theatre-goer, tired of living under the dry restrictions of prohibition would welcome a “melodrama of the underworld” that took place during a friskier era when a nickel bought a generous glass of beer. This play was turned into a film in 1933 called ‘She Done Him Wrong’ with both her and Bristol born Cary Grant as the headliners.It was to Cary Grant that she uttered the famous line: ”Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?”  
• • Joan Noele Gordon [25 December 1919 – 14 April 1985] was a British stage, film, TV actress and presenter. Noele played the part of Russian Rita opposite Mae West's Diamond Lil.
• • Source: Manchester Theatre History; published on Tuesday, 12 November 2019.
• • On Tuesday, 29 September 1914 • •
• • The newspaper the Philadelphia North American reviewed the more prominent variety artists who were performing onstage in the City of Brotherly Love on Tuesday, 29 September 1914. The arts critic thought well of Mae, who was then calling herself "The Original Brinkley Girl." When he referred to her stage act, he called her a "nut comedienne."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • What could be funnier than W. C. Fields as a patent medicine vendor turned masked bandit, and Mae West, late of the honky-tonks, as a little desert flower blooming brighter every hour?
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Most of my fan mail has a laugh in it. Those writing to me evidently take me at my screen word that I enjoy a laugh — — even on paper."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An Illinois fundraiser mentioned Mae West.
• • Meet Mae West in livestream benefit for Steel Beam Theatre of St. Charles
• • Join Martina Mathisen in her inimitable one-woman show, "Meet Mae West," a fundraiser for Steel Beam Theatre in St. Charles that will livestream at 7 p.m. Sept. 27, 2020, a news release stated.
• • Mae West shattered box office records and public sensibilities. She rocketed from Broadway to become the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. Her one-liners scandalized the censors yet made her an icon. She rescued studios from bankruptcy and created stars. Without her, Cary Grant might have remained a nobody. Meet the woman behind the wit.
• • The production kicks off a series of livestream events continuing the theater's season themed "Women of Steel." . . .
• • Source: Shaw Media; published on Monday, 14 September 2020
• • 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 • •
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