Mae West: Negatives Are Gone

MAE WEST is back onscreen. This assessment of her Blu-ray line-up is by Stephen Bjork. This is Part 6 of his lengthy review.
• • "I'm No Angel" (Blu-ray Review) • •
• • Mae West: All the negatives are gone • •
• • Stephen Bjork wrote: All of the negatives for West’s films are long gone, so it would have been some combination of dupe negatives and/or fine grain prints.
• • "My Little Chickadee" • •

• • Stephen Bjork wrote: While the picture quality perhaps falls just a tiny bit short of the high bar set by My Little Chickadee, it comes impressively close.
• • Stephen Bjork wrote: Everything looks immaculate without even a hint of damage, but with all of the fine detail and grain intact.
• • Stephen Bjork wrote:  While it may be slightly less detailed than Chickadee, that’s as much due to the cinematography as anything else—Tover uses diffusion filters more frequently here than Joseph Valentine did on that film.
• • Mae West: Fine grain prints. Her motion pictures received a “lovely transfer” • • …
• • Stephen Bjork’s article will continue on the next post.
• • Source: The Digital Bits; published on Friday, 30 July  2021.  
• • On Sunday, 31 August 1969 • •
• •  "Sex is an emotion in motion," Mae West told The Los Angeles Times on Sunday, 31 August 1969. That's a pretty provocative way to end a hot month, eh?  
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • My favorite is "She Done Him Wrong" — because Mae West fills a long-felt movie need and her acting is better than swell.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "It is hard to see why people who wear next to nothing on public beaches object to nudity on the screen. But I'm for clean pictures and clean everything!"
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An Esquire reporter interviewed Mae West.
• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: My appointment was for two o’clock and I arrived early, but the receptionist at the desk said she wouldn’t dare call Miss West before the exact time, so I waited in the lobby, an ornate baronial hall with Moorish touches, furnished with tapestries, velvet chairs and sofas, gold-painted tables and lamps with statues for bases.
• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: On the dot of two, the receptionist called to announce me and I heard her say, “Yes, Miss West, she’s alone. Yes, Miss West, I’m sure.” (In agreeing to the interview, Mae had specified that I was to come without a photographer.)  …
• • Source: Esquire Magazine; published on Saturday, 1 July 1967
• • 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 4,811th 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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