Thursday, August 05, 2021

Mae West: Cactus Wins

In 1935, MAE WEST introduced her latest film: “Goin' to Town” [Paramount, 74 mins.], whose cast included Paul Cavanaugh, Ivan Lebedeff, Marjorie Gateson, Monroe Owsley.
• • Film Daily wrote: Hollywood Preview! Good Box-Office with Mae West Delivering Another Load of Wise-Cracks in a Nicely Sustained Story.
• • Film Daily wrote: "Goin' to Town" will please Mae West fans aplenty. It is loaded with wisecracks and Mae fires them frequently. She gets her man and this time he is no less than a member of the English nobility in the person of Paul Cavanaugh. He is hard to get, and Mae pursues him with a horse all the way to South America.
• • Mae West (Cleo Borden) races her horse Cactus in Buenos Aires • •

• • Film Daily wrote: The horse, Cactus, wins the big South American race, although Marjorie Gateson, society leader, and Ivan Lebedeff, her accomplice, try to get the horse out of the way.
• • Film Daily wrote: Paul tells Mae she lacks social standing, and she loses no time in making a deal to have Monroe Owsley, a penniless society playboy, marry her.
• • Film Daily wrote: Then she storms Southampton, only to have Miss Gateson try to frame her with Lebedeff. Instead Lebedeff slays Owsley. Paul Cavanaugh finally proposes.
• • Film Daily wrote: Alexander Hall's direction is excellent.
• • Film Daily wrote: Cast: Mae West, Paul Cavanaugh, Ivan Lebedeff, Marjorie Gateson, Tito Coral, Fred Kohler, Sr., Gilbert Emery, Grant Withers, Adrienne D'Ambricourt, Luis Alberni, Lucio Villegas, Mona Rico, Paul Harvey, Francis Ford, Dewey Robinson, Robert Dudley.
• • Film Daily wrote: Producer, William Le Baron; Director, Alexander Hall; Authors, Marion Morgan, George Dowell; Screenplay, Mae West; Music and Lyrics, Sam Fain, Irving Kahal; Cameraman, Karl Struss; Recording Engineer, M. M. Paggi; Editor, LeRoy Stone.
• • Film Daily wrote: Direction, A-l. Photography, Fine.
• • Source: Film Daily reviews the new films; published on Thursday, 25 April  1935.
• • On Wednesday, 4 August 1954 • •
• • "The Mae West Revue," which opened in Las Vegas, was a song-and-dance show that lasted only thirty-nine (39) minutes. Variety printed their coverage on Wednesday, 4 August 1954.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Ode to mayhem: To ask Mae West why, if she's such an infallible man-catcher, she does so little catching.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "My ideas and my texts were from the first for the stage, through the secret doors of my personal life."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on the Clark Gable paternity trial mentioned Hollywood icon Mae West.
• • Mrs. Violet Norton claims the actor Clark Gable is the father of her daughter, Gwendoline.
• • Federal Judge George Cosgrave today denied a motion for a directed verdict of acquittal.
• • Mae West was expected to become today’s star witness for the prosecution. She, like other figures in the movie colony, received mail and communications from Mrs. Norton.
• • Mae West was also being contacted by Jack L. Smith, a private detective, whom the Government alleges was also using the mail to defraud in efforts to get money from Clark Gable. ...
• • Source: Indianapolis Times; published on Wednesday, 21 April 1937

• • 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 4,792nd 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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