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 1 of 8.
• • The Best of Mae West • •
• • She Done Him Wrong: Mae West’s career died for your sins.
• • Scott Marks wrote: This week we go West, Mae West, for a pair of saucy comedies: one’s pre-Code, the other isn’t.
• • “She Done Him Wrong” starring Mae West (1933) • •
• • Scott Marks wrote: Based on West’s scandalous stage play Diamond Lil, this was to be her second feature and first starring role.
• • Note: Very little of Mae's 180-minute play made it into the brisk 66-minute film. But LindaAnn LoSchiavo wrote a more faithful version based on Mae West's 1928 vesrion, "Diamond Lil, Queen of the Bowery," trimmed to 89 minutes and advertised as "all of the sex and none of the censorship." Check it out on YouTube with Darlene Violette utterly scintillating in the title role as the belle of Suicide Hall.
• • YouTube: "Diamond Lil, Queen of the Bowery"
• • Mae West: Grappled with the censors • • ...
• • Part 2 will follow tomorrow.
• • Source: San Diego Reader; published on Friday, 11 December 2020.
• • On Wednesday, 9 February 1927 • •
• • On 9 February 1927, Variety mentioned that Beverly West had been arrested on a disorderly conduct charge in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
• • The drunken brawl at the Arcade Hotel in Edward Elsner's suite is dramatized in the stage play "Courting Mae West" in Act I, Scene 2. An audience favorite, the serious-minded comedy based on true events was seen in New York and also in Australia.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Financially speaking, Mae West outpaced her male and female movieland peers. Publishing mogul William Randolph Hearst received half-a-million in 1935. Mae West was right behind her nemesis with salary checks totaling $339,166.65 during the same period.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Because of my early training in vaudeville and in stock companies, I used to learn all the parts: the villain, the heroine, the meany. When I began to write, I was so tired of formulas that I wanted something different. That's why my plays were so original."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A Singapore newspaper mentioned Mae West.
• • Mae West made her stage debut in the role of Little Eva in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." There is no evidence that, in the death bed scene, she invited those present to "Come up and see me" when they passed over. . . .
• • Source: The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser; published on Saturday, 8 February 1936
• • 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 4,666th 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/
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