In 1942, when MAE WEST was feeling her Hollywood halo slipping, she decided to reinvent herself. The place to tell the entertainment world her intentions was the famous "Harrison in Hollywood" column, started by Paul Harrison, and now penned by Erskine Johnson.This is Part 3 of 5.
• • Mae West: Leaving Diamond Lil behind • •
• • Erskine Johnson wrote: She's been trying to break away from that image, she says, for a long, long time. After her second picture, in fact. But film producers would not listen to her; they said they knew best.
• • Erskine Johnson wrote: "I knew that all that 'come up and see me some time' and 'you can be had, big boy' stuff couldn't go on after my second picture," Mae West says. "But would the producers listen to me? No. 'Mae,' they said, 'that's what the public wants. So let's give it to 'em.' Well, we gave it to 'em — — until everybody in show business was imitating my stuff."
• • Mae West: Would be “washed up” • • ...
• • To be continued with Part 4 tomorrow.
• • Source: Harrison in Hollywood column written by Erskine Johnson, Syndicated Columnist; published on Thursday, 5 November 1942.
• • On Saturday, 4 May 1935 • •
• • A Los Angeles Times columnist noted on Saturday, 4 May 1935, that the news about Mae West's secret marriage to Frank Wallace had "chased Hitler, the NRA, and the quintuplets off the front page of every newspaper in America for two weeks."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • "Night After Night" — George Raft attains stardom in a peppy, but otherwise commonplace gangster picture, in which George runs a speakeasy and falls in love with a society girl (Constance Cummings). Newcomer Mae West almost steals the picture. (Paramount)
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Let me have around me men — — and let it go at that."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on censorship mentioned Mae West.
• • The Wales Padlock Law. ...
• • The trouble was, as always, that the reformers saw smut in everything that chafed their own highly developed sense of sex; to them, a serious treatment of a serious theme, like “Maya,’’ was as filthy as “Pleasure Man.”
• • A number of well-known and respected actors and actresses found, themselves hauled into night court because they had had the audacity to appear in plays dealing with adult themes.
• • A number of young ladies who allowed the public to see them clad in their native modesty, and not much else, were also rounded up by red-faced patrolman. So was Mae West. ...
• • Source: Variety; published on Wednesday, 2 January 1952
• • 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 4,726th 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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