MAE WEST is back onscreen. This assessment of her Blu-ray line-up is by Stephen Schaefer. This is Part 8 of 12 segments.
• • Mighty, Mighty Mae • •
• • Celebrate Mae West! • •
• • Mae West: Wrote naughty dialogue on purpose • •
• • Stephen Schaefer wrote: As her best lines continued to be cut, West countered by putting outlandishly naughty lines in knowing they would be the first to go. The censorship battle became an all-out war with ‘Klondike Annie’ (1936) where through curious circumstances West adopts the identity of her suddenly deceased friend, Sister Annie Alden, and preaches to the immoral citizens of the Alaskan Gold Rush as an evangelist.
• • Mae West: Did she joke about Hearst and his mistress? • • ...
• • To be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Boston Herald; published on Tuesday, 11 May 2021.
• • On Sunday, 16 August 1964 • •
• • An article "Return Engagement" appeared in The New York Times on Sunday, 16 August 1964. Plans were then in the works for Mae to be featured on the TV sit-com "Mister Ed" for a second episode. In her follow-up appearance, Mae was to have played a saloon keeper. This TV project fizzled out, it seems.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Meanwhile, the main supporting actors were shockingly illustrious: John Huston, in one of many late-career roles with which he willingly dissected the bluster and swagger of American masculinity (also including Chinatown and this year’s finally released The Other Side of the Wind), would growl from under a 20-gallon cowboy hat as her uncle, Buck Loner, owner of the Hollywood acting school where Myra Breckinridge ends up teaching and wreaking havoc; and none other than Mae West came out of retirement for her first screen appearance since 1943 as Leticia Van Allen, a man-hungry talent agent.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "People can get any sort of impression about me they want to have. And I'm still not doing so bad!"
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on Pre-Code cinema mentioned Mae West.
• • Jackson Upperco wrote: Night After Night, though not technically a Mae West picture, instantly becomes one the moment she steps into the film. West, along with character actress Alison Skipworth, steal the pleasant but dull film away from leads George Raft and Contance Cummings, who despite their charms, simply do not have presences strong enough to compete.
• • Jackson Upperco wrote: The skinny: unless you’re a Skipworth fan, there’s only one real reason to watch this film — Mae West. . . .
• • Jackson Upperco is still posting on his vibrant blog. Check it out.
• • Source: That's Entertainment blog; posted on Friday, 6 December 2013
• • 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 4,800 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,800th 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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