MAE WEST is back onscreen. This assessment of her first starrer, by Dennis Seuling, is Part 13 of 13 segments, the finale.
• • Trailers • •
• • Dennis Seuling wrote: Six trailers [i.e., coming attractions publicity] for other Mae West films available on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber are included: Night After Night, I’m No Angel, Belle of the Nineties, Goin’ to Town, Every Day’s a Holiday, and My Little Chickadee.
• • Dennis Seuling wrote: Released in 1933, She Done Him Wrong was one of the most controversial films up to that point.
• • Dennis Seuling wrote: There was no explicit sex or nudity, but it was Mae West’s liberated attitudes that made waves in Hollywood and led to tougher censorship.
• • Dennis Seuling wrote: Pushing boundaries, the film was both a showcase for Mae West and the death knell of suggestive content on American screens for decades to come.
• • Ratings are:
• • Film/Program Grade: A-
• • Video Grade: A-
• • Audio Grade: B+
• • Extras Grade: A
• • Dennis Seuling's review has now concluded with this post. Did you enjoy it? Tell us.
• • Source: The Digital Bits; published on Friday, 28 May 2021.
• • On Thursday, 29 July 1954 • •
• • "Mae West Introducing Beef Cake to Night Club" • •
• • Las Vegas — Mae West, at 62 still blonde and curvaceous, made her night club debut last night by introducing "beef cake" to saloon shows. The queen of comedy sex was greeted with whistles and cheers at the Hotel Sahara as she made her comeback to big time show business with her usual shoulder and hip wiggles and risque songs. But her retinue of eight muscular men, including Dick DuBois, Mr. America of 1954, brought down the house in what Miss West called "the first bare chest act for lady customers in history.
• • "I know what to give the women," she murmured after the show. "A woman likes to look at any male body."
• • "Loves Them All" • •
• • "Muscles, big or small men — — men, men, I love them all," Mae chanted in that slurring voice that helped make her a star of stage and screen. ...
• • Source: The Bakersfield Californian (Bakersfield, California); published on Thursday, 29 July 1954.
• • 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 • •
• • Mae West and Jim Timony are apparently as devoted as when Mae first tackled Hollywood.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "A man in the house is worth two in the street."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article in Great Britain mentioned Mae West's long-time lover.
• • "Paul Novak: Beach hunk who became Mae West's faithful friend" • •
• • Christopher Hawtree wrote: Among the many men who used to call by Mae West's house in Santa Monica, California, after working out on nearby Muscle Beach was a wrestler called Mr Baltimore, who has died aged 76. Otherwise known as Chester Krauser, he had been in the chorus line of West's mid-1950s nightclub act. West was 62 and had currently been involved with two other hunks from her stage act. But as West recalled, the 32-year-old Mr Baltimore "had an air of serious liveliness about him one day that I supposed conveyed his happiness at having me all alone."
• • Christopher Hawtree explained: Mr Baltimore became Paul Novak during his long liaison with Mae West. Of Polish origins, he had been born Chester Ribonsky in Baltimore, and had served in the merchant navy as a gunner in the second world war and in Korea. ...
• • Source: The Guardian [UK]; posted on Wednesday, 21 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 4,788th 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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