MAE WEST is introduced to a new audience whenever a documentary film pops up. Mark Kennedy analyzes the most recent PBS biography. Was it a hit or a miss, in his opinion? This is Part 3 of 8.
• • PBS invites you to come up sometime and see a Mae West doc • •
• • “Mae West: Dirty Blonde,” the first major documentary film on this cultural figure, makes its world premiere Tuesday on PBS, an attempt to look beyond West's gowns, curves and jewels.
• • Mae West: Mae's many witticisms • •
• • Mark Kennedy wrote: Mae West launched Cary Grant’s career, she was sentenced to prison, and during the Great Depression she became the second highest paid person in the entire country, behind only newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst.
• • Mark Kennedy wrote: “Mae West was this incredibly smart woman who had a message about power and sexuality and gender. And she found a way to get people to listen to her — — and that was by making them laugh,” Julia Marchesi said.
• • Mae West: More than a Sex Siren • • ...
• • To be continued.
• • Source: Associated Press (syndicated content); published on Monday, 15 June 2020.
• • On Wednesday, 26 March 1958 • •
• • Rock Hudson, age 32, and Mae West performed the song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” together, in point style, at the 30th Annual Academy Awards on Wednesday, 26 March 1958.
• • The 1957 Academy Awards were presented at the RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, California and broadcast on NBC-TV.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • An enormous international cast was assembled to do justice to Mae West's ambitious screenplay "Now I'm a Lady" centered around the horsey set. Script approval would be granted by the Hays Commission on Monday, 1 April 1935.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I was told I could pay the fine and get out of going to jail, but I made up my own mind. I decided it would be more interesting to go to prison. I was always fascinated by prisons and mental institutions... “
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article in Look quoted Mae West.
• • "Raquel Welch, Mae West Talk about Men, Morals and Myra Breckinridge” • •
• • Jack Hamilton wrote: The personality chasm between these two women yawns deep.
• • Jack Hamilton wrote: Mae West dotes on what she is and has always been — an immortal sex symbol. .. But didn't Raquel know what she was getting into? ...
• • Source: Look Magazine; issue dated for Tuesday, 24 March 1970
• • 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 4,699th 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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