MAE WEST is back onscreen. This assessment of her first starrer, by Dennis Seuling, is Part 9 of 13 segments.
• • Mae West: Racy dialogue diluted • •
• • Dennis Seuling wrote: So the title was changed and some of the racy dialogue was replaced with innuendos and double entendres. Cary Grant was in his second year as a film actor. She Done Him Wrong was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award.
• • Audio Commentary #1 • •
• • Dennis Seuling wrote: In the first commentary, film historian David Del Valle notes that She Done Him Wrong was the first film under a multi-picture deal Mae West made with Paramount.
• • Dennis Seuling wrote: Like Marlene Dietrich, West orchestrated her own costumes and lighting, but West also produced her own projects. “She was an astute businesswoman.”
• • Dennis Seuling wrote: By 1935, West was earning more money than Adolph Zukor, the head of Paramount. Mae West arrived in Hollywood not as an ingenue but as a big girl from a big city —New York City.
• • Audio Commentary #1 (continued) • • ...
• • Dennis Seuling's review continues on the next post.
• • Source: The Digital Bits; published on Friday, 28 May 2021.
• • On Monday, 23 July 1934 in Film Daily • •
• • W. C. Fields wrote: I have been approached by Mae West to consider collaborating. But I want my work to stand out individually. Besides Mae West has the wrong slant on this thing. She says she does her best writing in bed. Well, I do my best loafing there, and consider that that is the primary purpose of a bed. . . .
• • Source: Article: "W. C. Fields Talks About His Grand Passion" in Film Daily; published on Monday, 23 July 1934.
• • July 2004: Mae West Blog launches • •
• • 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 • •
• • "The Heat's On" [released in the USA on 2 December 1943] was a 79-minute musical comedy starring Mae West as Fay Lawrence. Born in July 1882, Edward Earle was cast as one of Fay Lawrence's writers.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Yes, they kinda went for me."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Guardian mentioned Mae West.
• • The inspirations for Felicity Shagwell were Ursula Andress in Dr. No, Jane Fonda's Barbarella, and Mae West — — coming back at the men with their own sexual aggression. Talking about the film, Heather Graham varies between good Mae West lines (the message of the film is love conquers all but sex is better) and admitting she took it seriously as a love story. . . .
• • Source: The Guardian; published on Friday, 16 July 1999
• • 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 • •
• • 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 4,784th 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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