Mae West: Unless Aroused

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 2 of 17 segments.
• • Mae West's Advice to Young Girls in Love by Gladys Hall • •

• • Mae West: Unless Aroused • •
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae never sits upright unless aroused; she slouches. She was wearing a slinky black crepe dress, a short white fur coat with enormously puffed sleeves, a white hat on her blonde hair, a bit of white veil, and several "rocks" (diamonds, to you) the size of golf balls on fingers and bosom.
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae reminded me of a sleek cat: eyes half-closed, teeth slightly bared, indolent, insolent and liable to sudden fits of intense and ferocious life.
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West is one hundred percent what she is. She does little or no acting [sic] on stage or screen. She is being herself. She couldn't be anything else. She wouldn't want to be.
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West says she loves herself.
• • Mae West: Just Being Herself • • . . .
• • To be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Movie Classic; issue dated for August 1933.
• • On Friday, 10 May 1935 in NYC • •
• • On Friday, 10 May 1935, "Goin' to Town" opened in Mae West's hometown at the New York Paramount.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • "Mae West Film Big in L.A." • •
• • West Coast Bureau of The Film Daily, Los Angeles — Mae West in "Goin' to Town" established an opening day record at the Paramount. First day's receipts exceeded the previous record by $100.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "The prison doors closed behind me. That's my story."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The United Feature Syndicate discussed Mae West.
• • "Mae Sees Ghosts" • •

• • Hollywood — James Bacon wrote: Spent an afternoon with one of my favorite living legends Mae West. First time I ever visited Mae that we didn't conduct the interview in her bedroom with the mirrored ceilings and walls.
• • James Bacon added: It's not that we're both getting older. Her sister Beverly just happened to be in there, reading a book.
• • James Bacon continued: Mae is ageless.  She looks as if she invented sex yesterday, not in the 1920s. It was Mae who once observed that she was pure as the driven snow, however, she added "Then I drifted."  ...
• • James Bacon continued: Mae told me she had friends, long dead, who come to visit her right in her bedroom. She said, "I believe there is a hereafter."  ...
• • Source: syndicated Hollywood column rpt in The Milwaukee Journal; published on Saturday, 28 April 1973
• • 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 4,730th 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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