Mae West: Art Deco Bracelet

MAE WEST's Art Deco diamond bracelet, purchased by Neil Lane, has been worn on notable occasions. Imagine it lighting up your wrist as you read this.  This is Part 1 of 6 parts.
• • The Love Story Behind Mae West’s Jewels • •    
• • Goodness had everything to do with it • •

• • Marion Fasel wrote: In celebration of the fabulous new PBS American Masters episode “Mae West: Dirty Blonde,” we are reupping this story about the star’s diamond Art Deco bracelet.
• • Marion Fasel wrote: A Brooklyn broad with a heart of gold, Mae West arrived in Hollywood around 1930 [sic] from New York’s vaudeville stage [sic]. The star delivered a city sass in her movies with material she often wrote herself.
• • Correction: Fasel is inaccurate. Mae was invited to Hollywood in 1932; she had been touring with her Broadway play.
• • Marion Fasel wrote: Beyond her signature invitation “Why don’t come up sometime and see me,” perhaps her other most well-known line was uttered in the 1932 film “Night After Night” to a hat check girl who gushes, “Goodness, what beautiful diamonds.” Mae West replied, “Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.”
• • Mae West: Fashions of the Gilded Age • • ...
• • This off-the-wall feature will continue until the sixth segment.
• • Source: The Adventurine; posted on Thursday, 15 November 2018.
• • On Sunday, 1 January 1978 • •
• • A review of the motion picture "Sextette," starring Mae West, was printed in Variety, the issue dated for Sunday, 1 January 1978.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •

• • Compared to Brando, Beatty or Granger, Mae West was a paragon of the Protestant work ethic. Few worked harder in Hollywood. Her famous sexual innuendo and throw-away style were the products of much rewriting and rehearsal.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Sex in grandma's day was always quaint."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on Joan Rivers's memoir mentioned Mae West.
• • Chortle's British Book Reviewer Steve Bennett wrote: Yes, Joan Rivers drops names like confetti, but what names to drop! Elvis Presley, Joan Crawford, Paul Robeson, Mae West — — all bit-players in the story of her incredible life.
• • Book Reviewer Steve Bennett wrote: Her anecdote about Mae West is especially poignant. Having snubbed the aging, demanding diva just six weeks before she died, Joan Rivers attended her funeral, to find she was virtually alone. ‘She had outlived her fame,’ Joan Rivers lamented. ...
• • Source: Chortle (U.K.): published on Tuesday, 1 January 2008
• • 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 4,639th 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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