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 14 of 17 segments.
• • Mae West's Advice to Young Girls in Love by Gladys Hall • •
• • Mae West: He was nuts about me • •
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West said, “If I hadn't gone to sleep he'd never have noticed me. But he was nuts about me and he did produce the (vaudeville) act for me. I guess he must have spent over three thousand dollars for my clothes alone."
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West added, “But by that time he was so nuts about me, he didn't know the difference. And I didn't let it get too serious with him either."
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West continued, "When he'd start to make love to me, I'd start to shake all over and go for him and say, 'Oh, quit it, can't you — — can't you see I'm nervous, shaking all over like this? Wait, will you, this is business — — wait till the act is on and my nerves calm down — — And we parted good friends, at that.”
• • Mae West Says, "Look Feminine" • • ...
• • To be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Movie Classic; issue dated for August 1933.
• • On Sunday, 26 May 1889 • •
• • Another wedding in the Jacob Delker family; Delker was Mae's maternal grandfather. Matilda West's brother Carl Delker married Miss Mathilde Misdorn on Sunday, 26 May 1889.
• • Earlier that year Miss Matilda Delker had wed John West in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on Saturday, 19 January 1889.
• • On Wednesday, 26 May 1999 • •
• • Wednesday, 26 May 1999, TV viewers and Mae mavens were able to watch Intimate Portrait, Season 5, Episode 28: "Mae West." This was the original air date and it was shown on LIFE.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West's amazing new contribution to screen history, "Belle of the Nineties," reveals the Paramount screen sensation more beautiful and alluring than ever as the foremost charmer of the gallant Southland of the Gay and Naughty Nineties.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I am not defending the tricky woman, but if she is forced to battle for the place due to her, she cannot be condemned for using any ruse she can."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article about big breasts mentioned Mae West.
• • Florence Williams wrote: If there’s one thing starlets like Jayne Mansfield and Mae West understood, it was the power of their ample endowments. In her 1959 memoir, "Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It," West writes that beginning in her teens, she regularly rubbed cocoa butter on her breasts, then spritzed them with cold water. “This treatment made them smooth and firm, and developed muscle tone which kept them right up where they were supposed to be.”
• • Florence Williams wrote: Mae West has good company in doling out ridiculous breast-enhancing tips. ...
• • Source: The Jane Dough Show [defunct]; published on Friday, 11 May 2012
• • 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 4,742nd 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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