Mae West: Nuts about Him

In a revealing 1933 interview with Gladys Hall, MAE WEST talks about being madly in love (only once), the first man who gave her a diamond, and how love affairs (for her) were transactional. Was Mae being truthful? Did Mae believe in her own hard-hearted advice? This is Part 5 of 17 segments.
• • Mae West's Advice to Young Girls in Love by Gladys Hall • •
• • Mae West: “I was crazy about that man...” • •
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West  said, “And there's only one love like that in any woman's lifetime. I was crazy about that man. I was nuts about him. I was only about sixteen or seventeen — — but, say, I was old for my age. Developed. Everything. It hit me hard. I was so jealous of him, I felt sore all over when I saw him look at another girl.”

• • Mae's mother didn't like him • •
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West said, "My mother didn't like him — — not for me. And I thought a lot of my mother. I got to thinking about it, about him and me. And I says to myself, 'If you keep on like this, there won't be any Mae West.' There wouldn't have been, either."
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West continued, "And I felt I was in love with myself even then. I had a lot of ambition. But if you think my ambition and my love for that man didn't go into the arena and fight until they were bloody, you're crazy.”
• • Mae didn't want a “pack of kids” • • ...
• • To be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Movie Classic; issue dated for August 1933.
• • On Sunday, 13 May 1956 • •
• • Blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield [1933 — 1967] encountered the very handsome Mr. Universe 1956 Miklos (Mickey) Hargitay on 13 May 1956, while attending a performance of the "Mae West Revue" at the Latin Quarter night club in Manhattan.
• • Twenty months later, Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay wed on 13 January 1958. They had three children and, alas, would divorce in 1964.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West has announced that she will be getting an armored limo to protect Jim Timony and herself.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I'd never hesitate to admit I had a husband if I had one, but I haven't."    
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A newspaper mentioned Mae West.
• • Few seem to know that a war is going on between Bolivian and Paraguayan troops, there not being an upside-down stomach or a Mae West ex-husband in the lot.  . . .
• • Source: Healdsburg Tribune (California); published on Thursday, 9 May 1935 
• • 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 4,700 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,733rd 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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