Mae West: Too Willful

MAE WEST gave various accounts about the inspiration for Diamond Lil and other particulars when she was still a Hollywood newcomer. Caroline Somers Hoyt interviewed Mae in January 1933. Her piece was published in the May issue, available to subscribers at the end of April. This is Part 2 of  13.
• • Bad, Bad Woman: Meet Mae West, a truly remarkable woman • •
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt spoke to Mae for Modern Screen • •
• • Mae West: How it began • •
• • Hoyt wrote: It all begins back in Brooklyn when Mae West was a kid. A dignified aunt used to watch Mae bullying the boys in the street and say to her mother, "Tcht, tcht, that child is too willful. She'll come to no good end. Why don't you make her act more like a lady? Why do you let her have her own way? Why don't you correct her?"

• • Hoyt wrote: If that same dignified aunt could see her, now that she has become famous playing bad, bad women for the edification of thousands of audiences! If that aunt could see her jewels and her spangled gowns and could hear her say — as she said to me a few weeks ago in that husky voice:
• • Hoyt wrote: "Listen, there's some bad in all women. I work off my energies— and I've got plenty of energy— by being that sort of woman on the stage and screen,” said Mae West.
• • Mae West: There's some bad in all women • • ...  
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt's 1933 interview will continue on our next post.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for May 1933.
• • On Saturday, 22 February 1947 • •
• • The show "Come On Up" starring Mae West opened in Los Angeles, California at the Biltmore Theatre on Saturday, 22 February 1947.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Unlike Miss Dietrich, Mae West bares nothing but reveals everything.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I never expected to be sent to jail."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article in Modern Screen mentioned Mae West.
• • Mae West at the Circus • •
• • Mae West is a pretty swell gal. In her next picture, "I'm No Angel," she plays the part of a circus performer. So when the Barnes Circus was in town, Mae made several trips over to the Big Top to gain some first-hand information on trapeze artists. Upon each visit she noticed there was always a line of wistful looking children standing outside, without the price of a ticket.
• • So what does Diamond Lil do but take two hundred little orphans, including fifty negro children, to the circus one Sunday afternoon! She treated 'em to popcorn 'n' peanuts 'n' everything, and did they have a swell time! Believe you me, those kids won't be forgetting Mae West for a long time.  . . .
• • Source: Modern Screen;  published in the issue dated for July  1933
• • 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 4,675th 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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