Mae West: The Gangster

MAE WEST is back onscreen. This assessment of her Blu-ray line-up is by Stephen Schaefer. This is Part 4 of 12 segments.
• • Mighty, Mighty Mae • •
• • Celebrate Mae West! • •  
• • Mae West: Demanded script input • •
• • Stephen Schaefer wrote: It was George Raft, today best known as the gangster Spats in ‘Some Like It Hot,’ who asked for Mae West to be in his 1932 speakeasy drama ‘Night After Night’ (All 9 films: Blu-ray, KL Studio Classics, Not Rated) and begin her career in films.

• • Image: "Night After Night" poster • •
• • Stephen Schaefer wrote: Like West, Raft was a Broadway [sic] veteran. For ‘Night After Night’ Mae West demanded — — and got — —to rewrite her scenes.  
• • Stephen Schaefer wrote: She enters the film and a hatcheck girl marvels, ‘Goodness! What beautiful diamonds’ and West replies, ‘Goodness had nothing to do with it.’ Raft was later quoted as saying, ‘She stole everything but the cameras.’
• • Mae West: Her grandest Broadway hit • • ...
• • To be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Boston Herald; published on Tuesday, 11 May 2021.
• • On Monday, 10 August 1936 • •
• • Production of "Klondike Annie" starring Mae West began on Monday, 10 August 1936 and was finished by September.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • "Watching Mae West stroll down the avenue, I always catch myself musing on the sway of all flesh," Jimmie Fidler wrote in his daily Hollywood gossip column. He often mentioned Mae West.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "Keep cool and collect."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
 • • An ad for "I'm No Angel" in August 1934 said this:
• • Castle Theatre, Newcastle, Wyoming — Last Time Tonight: Thursday, August 9th — Mae West in "I'm No Angel" — A vehicle for Mae West which fits every curve of her fascinating personality. Her blinding swift wit is ever present.  ...
• • Source: The News Letter Journal (Wyoming); published on Thursday, 9 August 1934
• • 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 4,796th 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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