Mae West: Hourglass Figure

MAE WEST is back onscreen. This assessment of her first starrer, by Dennis Seuling, is Part 6 of 13 segments.
• • Mae West: Hourglass Figure • •
• • Dennis Seuling wrote: The black-and-white photography nicely captures what was a bygone era, even in 1933. Mae West’s elaborate, form-fitting period gowns accentuating her hourglass figure, trimmed with plenty of glitter, sequins, feathers, and frills, stand out amid the saloon customers in street clothes.
• • Dennis Seuling wrote: Her numerous diamonds catch the light and sparkle. West wears one magnificent outfit after another.
• • Dennis Seuling wrote: There are few exteriors, but a highlight is Lady Lou’s entrance by carriage.
• • Dennis Seuling wrote: Lady Lou’s elegant apartment over the saloon, complete with maid (Louise Beavers), is appointed with silk curtains, dressing screens, settees, make-up table, and mirrors, offering a marked contrast to the stark bar and stage area of the saloon.
• • Mae West: Wit with a sexual connotation • • . . .
• • Dennis Seuling's review continues on the next post.
• • Source: The Digital Bits; published on Friday, 28 May 2021.  
• • On Monday, 20 July 1942 • •
• • Subscribers of the Reading Eagle opened their morning edition dated for Monday, 20 July 1942 and saw this juicy bit on page 14: "Mae West Requests Divorce from Wallace on 'Cruelty'."
• • Los Angeles, July 20, AP — Mae West and her onetime vaudeville partner Frank Wallace planned today to end their marriage, a ceremony kept secret for years, then widely publicized.
• • Mae asked for a divorce on the ground of cruelty. Her complaint contained no specific charges.
• • 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 • •
• • Mae West, who has not appeared in movies for a quarter of a century, will return to the screen early next year in a film version of her play — — "Sextet" — — in which she starred on stage in 1961.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "I'd rather be looked over than overlooked.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A book review mentioned Mae West.
• • In his book review for Newsweek, Ray Sawhill wrote this: In her zesty "Becoming Mae West" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Emily Wortis Leider points out that by the time she barreled into movies, Mae West had 35 years of theater and vaudeville behind her. She liked prizefighters, cross-dressers and stealing credit from collaborators.  ...
• • Source: Newsweek; published on  Monday, 14 July 1997
• • 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 4,781st 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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