Mae West: Talked About

In 1967, 73-year-old MAE WEST told Helen Lawrenson (during an interview for Esquire) that “if you didn’t know how old I am, a person’d think I’m twenty-six.”  
• • Eleven years later, in 1978, Mae would play a coquettish bride in "Sextette." Was it a good film or a misfire? Journalist Steve Palace has his own perspective. This is Part 1 of 6 parts.
• • "Sextette" — Mae West’s Last Movie Saw Her Play the Vamp in Her 80s! • •
• • Steve Palace wrote: Classic Hollywood siren Mae West attempted one last big screen blowout with 1978’s "Sextette." The results were much talked about… for the wrong reasons. The fondly-remembered star wanted to vamp it up at the ambitious age of 84!

• • Steve Palace wrote: The story, a musical, focused on glamorous sex symbol Marlo Manners and her octogenarian efforts at consummating a marriage with husband no. 6 Sir Michael Barrington (Timothy Dalton, in his early 30s). The setting is a hotel at which a world peace conference just so happens to be taking place.
• • Steve Palace wrote: Not only are the happy couple frequently interrupted, but Marlo Manners is called upon to serve her country in an unexpected way… by bedding former partner Alexei Andreyev Karansky (Tony Curtis). Only by sleeping with him can the planet be saved!
• • Mae West: Had an eclectic cast • • ...    
• • This feature will continue until the sixth segment.
• • Source: The Vintage News; published on Tuesday, 29 September 2020.
• • On Saturday, 11 January 1919 in Judge Magazine • •
• • The iconic publication Judge featured three hot topics in their weekend issue dated 11 January 1919 — — vaudevillian Mae West, the illustrator John Held Jr, and the Armistice.
• • The cover announced "War ends!" Judge's editorial office at that time was 225 Fifth Avenue, NYC.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Impressionable young people see the delightfully wicked Mae West grandly rewarded for her naughtiness in "She Done Him Wrong." What will be their reaction?
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: Very few people know my secret ambition to be a lion-tamer. It began when as a child my father took me to my first circus at Coney Island. Through the years I mentioned it very rarely and only to intimates.
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A headline in Singapore focused on Mae West and NBC.
• • "Mae West Is Banned Name" • •
• • The National Broadcasting Company New York recently banned the use of Miss Mae West's name in scripts broadcast by any of its managed or operated stations. ....
• • Source: The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser; published on Friday, 7 January 1938
• • 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 4,645th 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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