Mae West: Erotic Radiance

MAE WEST, always steamy, is now streaming.
• • The New Yorker's film critic Richard Brody wrote: Mae West displays free-spirited delight and cunning power in the comedic melodrama She Done Him Wrong, from 1933, set on the rowdy Bowery in the Gay Nineties, the decade of her birth. (It is in a batch of her films released on the Criterion Channel, and it is now streaming on Amazon and other services.)
• • Mae West flaunts an erotic radiance • •

• • Richard Brody wrote: Mae West, who wrote the 3-hour play on which the 66-minute film is based, lashes her regal prerogatives as Lady Lou, a high-attitude singer and a calculating collector of men and diamonds. Lou is dating the owner of the saloon (Noah Beery, Jr.) where she performs, and is also pursuing a pimp (Gilbert Roland) while her boyfriend (Owen Moore) is in jail; a shifty operator (David Landau) tries to take over the saloon, and Lou along with it, as she schemes to conquer an earnest young temperance missionary (Cary Grant) who pesters her audience.
• • Richard Brody wrote: With a tantalizing control of tempo, Mae West sashays and quips her way through a web of crime and local politics, flaunting a carefree erotic radiance that mixes business and pleasure with gleefully feigned indifference.
• • Source: The New Yorker; published on Friday, 4 December 2020.
• • On Monday, 8 February 1960 in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West got her star on the "Walk of Fame" at 1560 Vine Street on Monday, 8 February 1960.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • In an interview, D.W. Griffth named Mae West as one of the ten most interesting persons in America.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I'll never do the smart thing because it is smart. For instance, I won't go to the opera. It's all right for people who honestly love it, but a certain percentage goes just to be seen. Personally, I'd rather watch prize-fights, and I do."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Los Angeles Times wrote about Mae West.
• • “Mae West, Fields Team in Comedy of Old West” • •
• • Edwin F. Schallert wrote: Teaming Mae West and W. C. Fields commends itself as a first-class idea in showmanship. Wherefore the picture, "My Little Chickadee," will have plenty in its favor when distributed at the theaters throughout the nation.  . . .
• • Source: The Los Angeles Times; published on Sunday, 4 February 1940
• • 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 4,665th 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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