Mae West: With One Hand

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 5 of 5.
• • Mae West: Sees her next role as a Russian Ruler • •
• • Erskine Johnson wrote: And there's a movie based on the life of Catherine the Great. That's the film on which she's sinking her hopes.

• • Erskine Johnson wrote: She wrote it herself after a year and a half of research about the lady who once ruled Russia with one hand and a regiment of lovers with the other.
• • Erskine Johnson wrote: Catherine, you may recall, was quite a gal, and Mae has taken her apart and put her together again.  
• • Erskine Johnson wrote: Mae says that she even had some old Russian tales translated to discover things not generally known about the Empress. “And what things!" she says.
• • This was Part 5 of five segments. We hope you enjoyed it.
• • Source: Harrison in Hollywood column written by Erskine Johnson, Syndicated Columnist;  published on Thursday, 5 November 1942.
• • On Monday, 6 May 1935 in Time Magazine • •
• • Milwaukee clerk Myrtle Lorraine Sands, while helping to re-index official records in Wisconsin, chanced upon a marriage certificate showing that Mae West had married a fellow on 11 April 1911. The groom was Frank Wallace. Was that 1911 bride the Paramount Pictures movie star herself?
• • Already famous for her wiggling and shimmying, Mae tried every move to wriggle out of this tight spot by emphatically denying it all. However, "the great fact-finding machinery of the U.S. Press began to hum," according to the May 6th, 1935 issue of Time Magazine.
• • When New York reporters located the scrawny, unprepossessing vaudevillian, who was staying "in a theatrical hotel with his dancing partner, Trixie LeMae," Frank Wallace was quite happy to talk. He affirmed the marriage was real.
• • "The nerve of a brass monkey," was Mae West's response.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West is dickering with playwright Charlotte Frances for American stage rights of her play, “Sextette.”
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "It takes two to get one in trouble."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on Atlantic City, NJ  mentioned Mae West.
• • "Atlantic City Notes" • •
• • At the Savoy, the bill includes: Mae West, George Roland and company, Willie Weston, Rose and Ellis, John Geiger, the Flying Russells, Porter and Sullivan, and Herbert and Dennis.
• • The talking pictures will be heard at the Savoy next week. . . .
• • Source: The New York Clipper; published on Saturday, 5 April 1913
• • 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 4,728th 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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