The purity police dogged the heels of MAE WEST with a Javert-like intensity. Barry Chapman analyzes how the censors affected her film Belle of the Nineties,which reused some scenes from her 1930 stage play Constant Sinner, but removed the character Money Johnson, a Black pimp in Harlem, along with the shoplifting scenes that occurred in the department store on West 125 Street. This is Part 1 of 8 parts.
• • N.B.: When Toronto Film Society presented Belle of the Nineties (1934) and My Gal Sal on Monday, January 8, 1990 as part of their Season 42, this article was first written.
• • Censorship and Belle of the Nineties (1934) starring Mae West • •
• • Barry Chapman wrote:The only other thing they have in common is Libby Taylor as the maid, plus lots of entertainment.
• • Barry Chapman wrote: The plot of Belle of the Nineties has only secondary importance unlike Mae’s previous films, She Done Him Wrong and I’m No Angel.
• • Mae West: Plot is not important • • ...
• • To be continued.
• • Source: Toronto Film Society; reprinted on Sunday, 15 November 2020.
• • Mildred Katherine West [8 December 1898 — 12 March 1982] • •
• • In the month of March, we honor Mae's younger sister Beverly.
• • In March 1924, Variety noted a new act listed on Manhattan's stagebill: "Beverly West and Co., Piano and Singing." While not mentioning that she was Mae West's sister, Variety's reviewer admitted that "she puts over her numbers acceptably." Proctor's East 58th Street location had engaged Beverly and her musicians in 1924. Back in 1895, F.F. Proctor had built his playhouse, Proctor's Pleasure Palace Palm Gardens, on 154 East 58th Street, New York, NY in midtown on the eastside [now zipcode 10022]. During the same interval (mid-March in 1924), Mae West was trouping in vaudeville in Texas.
• • Born in Brooklyn on 8 December 1898, Beverly changed her stage name a few times. She was Beverly Osborne, then it was Beverly Arden. Afflicted with polio and a limp, Beverly favored long dresses that covered her imperfect legs. Beverly died two years after her older sister on Friday, 12 March 1982. She was 83.
• • On Thursday, 12 March 1936 in The N.Y. Times • •
• • The reviewer for The N.Y. Times Frank S. Nugent was aware of the uproar from the Hays Office that delayed Mae's latest motion picture. Nugent wrote: Mae West's "Klondike Annie" really does not merit the agitation it has caused. His comments appeared in The N.Y. Times on Thursday, 12 March 1936.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • "Sextette," the 1978 film in which Ringo Starr appeared with Mae West, is being re-released in New York.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “No gold-digging for me. I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A column on Hollywood stars mentioned Mae West.
• • Mae West Trades in Diamonds Against Day of Film Fade-out • •
• • Star Has Become Shrewd Bargainer in Gems And Does Own Buying and Selling • •
• • (A.P.) One day a week (she won't say which), Mae West will set aside time for these excursions into the shifting winds of trade.
• • To her apartment, which is bolted and barred with contraptions designed to keep a door from opening, will come the diamond merchants for their negotiations. But "some of the boys" are always close at hand in the other rooms.
• • Sometimes, the movie actress said, she is interested in trading. ...
• • Source: Associated Press; published on Wednesday, 17 February 1937
• • 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 4,689th 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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