Mae West: Careless Smoker

MAE WEST said this about being on TV: “too many people seeing me for free.” But now that her motion pictures are on the small screen, Mae is being newly discovered. Let's hear from Scott Marks. This is Part 8 of 8.
• • The Best of Mae West • •
• • She Done Him Wrong: Mae West’s career died for your sins.
• • Mae West: Hollywood display of religious ecstasy • •
• • Mae West portrays Ruby Carter • •
• • Scott Marks wrote: It was enough to make Jean-Pierre Coursodon call the sequence “an immensely tasteless” number in which West sings along with a “black chorus going through grotesque contortions in a repulsively Hollywood display of religious ecstasy.”

• • Scott Marks wrote: What better way to end the film that introduced the world to jazz standard “My Old Flame” — Duke Ellington and his orchestra are on hand to accompany West — than by having a flicked butt, tossed by careless smoker Mae West, miss the fireplace and literally bring the house down?
• • Scott Marks wrote: Mae West appeared in but a dozen features, and I suggest you see them all, including Myra Breckinridge. Make that especially Myra Breckinridge!
• • Part 8 ends this article written by Scott Marks.
• • Source: San Diego Reader; published on Friday, 11 December 2020.
• • On Saturday, 18 February 1933 • •
• • An article about Mae West and her new film "She Done Him Wrong" was printed in The New Yorker in their issue dated for Saturday, 18 February 1933.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • "I'm an occidental woman in an Oriental mood for love," sings the curvaceous Queen of Innuendo, Mae West, sporting a bespangled pseudo-Chinese headdress in the 1936 film "Klondike Annie." The scene is classic West and pure Hollywood kitsch.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "When a person thinks only of himself, he saves himself a lot of trouble."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article in Australia said Mae West inspired a train.
• • 'Mae West' is the new fast train • •
• • The new fast train from Mudgee to Oconabarabran has been dubbed by bright residents of the latter town the 'Mae West.'  The good Coonaberabranarians assembled In force on the railway platform to welcome Mae on arrival after her first trip with the enthusiasm reaching great heights.  ...
• • Source: Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative (NSW); published on Monday, 11 February 1935
• • 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 4,673rd 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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