Mae West: Mae's Insecurities

For six months, a Canadian fan worked with MAE WEST in California as her “secretary-companion-slave” and all around general adorer. In his book ‘Outrageous Misfits,’ Brian Bradley explores their relationship. What began as an intimate friendship would go up in flames. This is Part 4 of 9 parts.
• • Mae West: Genuine bear rugs and artificial flowers • •
• • Brian Bradley wrote: The colors of her living room were white, cream, beige, gold, and pale pink, with expansive arrangements of artificial flowers, polar bear rugs, coffee tables with mirrored tops backed in gold, and ornate lamps with bare-breasted women playing lutes.

• • Brian Bradley wrote: The pièce de résistance was a nude statue of her likeness atop a white-and-gold piano. Her boudoir had mirrors everywhere, including on the ceiling. Why?
• • Brian Bradley wrote: “I like to see how I’m doin’,” Mae West told Craig Russell.
• • Mae West: Shared her own insecurities • • ...  
• • Brian Bradley's book preview will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Toronto Star; published on Sunday, 25 October 2020.
• • On Sunday, 22 December 1935 • •
• • Photographs of Mae's Los Angeles apartment were featured in the Sunday edition of The Los Angeles Times on Sunday, 22 December 1935.
• • On Sunday, 22 December 1963 • •
• • "Mae West Will Guest" • •
• • Hollywood — — Mae West will make one of her rare TV appearances when she is the guest star in an episode of Mister Ed, stated The Fresno Bee on Sunday, 22 December 1963.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Cliff Shirpser was a camera assistant for "She Done Him Wrong" starring Mae West.
• • Born in 1906 in San Francisco, he began his Tinseltown career during the silent era with the classic "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" [1921] when he was 15 years old. Shirpser was behind the camera on 188 projects in Tinseltown.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “I have to tell you you're the greatest of all the funny men, Groucho. Whenever you're in L.A. come up and see me."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article by UPI discussed the death of Mae West.
• • Friends of Mae West gathered today for an invitation-only funeral • •
• • UPI wrote: Two days after Miss West's death, movie tough guy George Raft, who launched her career by getting her a small role in 'Night After Night' in 1932, died of emphysema Monday.
• • UPI wrote: After the service Miss West's body will be shipped back to New York for interment in the family plot at a cemetery in Brooklyn.  ...
• • Source: UPI Archives; published on Tuesday, 25 November 1980
• • 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 4,600 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,631st 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/
________
Source: https://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml  
• • Be sure to bookmark or follow The Mae West Blog
• • Photo: • • Mae West • • at home in 1934 • •
• • Feed — — http://feeds2.feedburner.com/MaeWest