Mae West: Erotic Tension

When Helen Lawrenson came up to see MAE WEST, Esquire's first female journalist was closing in on her sixtieth birthday and the Brooklyn bombshell was 73. A color photo by Diane Arbus flashed across the double-page-spread, hunched under half the title as if warding off a punch in the nose.
• • Enjoy her seldom seen interview. This is Part 20 of 46 parts.
• • "Mirror, Mirror, on the Ceiling: How'm I Doin’?" • •
• • Not bad, Mae, for a woman of seventy-three • •
• • Mae West: When she was 61 years old • •
• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: In 1954, when she was sixty-one, the thirty-year-old winner of a Mr. America contest was asked what woman he most wanted to meet.  

• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: Naturally, he said Mae West. Who else?  
• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: When she took his hand, he said to her, according to her account, “Mae, you are the end of my search for an ideal; my dream come true.”  
• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: She looked at his billowing biceps and felt “a subtle tension.” Ah, sweet mystery of love — again.  
• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: However, there was scant time for dalliance, as her agent had booked her into Las Vegas.  
• • Mae West: Why not? • • . . .   
• • Helen Lawrenson's interview will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Esquire; published on Saturday, 1 July 1967.
• • On Thursday, 6 November 2008 in Design Week • •
• • On 6 November 2008, Voxpop wrote: Actress Mae West, who died almost 30 years ago, has been revived in a branding exercise.
• • Which star would you bring back to life and how would you use their brand? ...
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • It was a star-studded premiere of Mae West's "I'm No Angel" at Grauman's Chinese and the Paramount newsreel cameras were there to capture it all for Hollywood on Parade, a series of shorts produced between 1932 and 1934 that were intended to showcase the studio's talent roster.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "I see good in every man. That's why I'm not married."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on Grand Coulee Dam mentioned Mae West.
• • On Monday, 18 June 1934, bids are opened in Spokane for the first phase of construction of Grand Coulee Dam, the centerpiece in a massive project to irrigate the desert in Central Washington with water from the Columbia River.
• • The bid opening was the culmination of a 16-year campaign to replicate in concrete an ice dam that had blocked the Columbia River during prehistoric times.  ...
• • One of the bidders was the actress Mae West, who told the engineers that if they encountered any difficulties, they should "Come up and see me sometime" ....
• • Source: Bureau of Reclamation History Program, Denver, CO; published 1998
• • 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 4,598th 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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