MAE WEST worked with an actor whose screen time was cut short, though not his career.
• • Mae West cast David Newell in “The Wicked Age" (1927).
• • David Newell [1905 ― 1980] • •
• • Born in Carthage, Missouri on Monday, 23 January 1905, David Newell was 22 when Mae West tapped him for the role of Bob Miles in "The Wicked Age;" the cast numbered 70 players.
• • By 1929, the handsome six-foot-two newcomer was attracting leading man attention in "The Marriage Playground" (1929), based on an Edith Wharton novel, "Murder on the Roof" (1930), "Runaway Bride" (1930). But by the early 1930s, he was slotted into supporting character parts, then only filling uncredited roles.
• • As a character actor, used for minor parts, he amassed 148 credits.
• • Unfortunately, David Newell suffered a serious disfigurement in an auto accident. Consequently, he switched his focus, becoming a motion picture and TV make-up artist until his retirement in 1967.
• • David Newell died on Friday, 25 January 1980 in Los Angeles, California. He was 75.
• • On Thursday, 12 July 1934 in Hollywood Reporter • •
• • Hollywood Reporter printed an article about Mae West's upcoming project. "New Orleans Kicks on Mae West's 'Belle'" was printed on the front page in the issue dated for Thursday, 12 July 1934.
• • July 2004: Mae West Blog launches • •
• • What are we up to, writing about the Brooklyn-born bombshell for 17 years now?
• • We’re here to keep Mae mavens up to date, correct errors, celebrate each revival of a play she wrote, post the latest Westian stage and book reviews. And answer our fan mail!
• • The light’s still on. Come up and see Mae every day.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Rifts in Tinseltown — — For David Newell, former Broadway leading man for Mae West and Ethel Barrymore, and Katharine Lewis, Hollywood actress.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "He who hesitates is a damned fool."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A fan magazine mentioned Mae West.
• • "Goin' to Town" — Paramount — Mae West, pursuing the man instead of being pursued, in a fast-moving, wise-cracking film, that will keep you laughing. (May)
• • Source: Photoplay Magazine; published in the issue dated for July 1935
• • Note: In case you assumed that script was solely meant for Mae West, think again.
• • In her syndicated column, Motion Picture Editor Louelle O. Parsons wrote this in 1933: Gene Markey and Kathryn Scola have written an original for Jimmy Cagney called "Goin' to Town" and, although Jimmy plays a race track Jockey, he tries no rough tactics. In fact, he breaks into society and becomes the idol of the Four Hundred. "Goin' to Town" follows "The Heir Chaser" and it's one to a million he will have Joan Blondell with him on account of popular demand. ...
• • Source: A syndicated gossip column item rpt in The Reading Times (Reading, Pennsylvania); published on Saturday, 2 December 1933
• • 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 17th anniversary • •
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• Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during
these past seventeen 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 4,775th 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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