Mae West: Obviously Sexy

MAE WEST is back onscreen. This assessment of her Blu-ray line-up is by Stephen Schaefer. This is Part 5 of 12 segments.
• • Mighty, Mighty Mae • •
• • Celebrate Mae West! • •  
• • Mae West: Her grandest Broadway success • •
• • Stephen Schaefer wrote: Mae West’s greatest Broadway success – the show that won Hollywood’s interest – was ‘Diamond Lil,’ about a ‘bad’ girl’s triumphs.  

• • Stephen Schaefer wrote: Retitled for the movies as ‘She Done Him Wrong,’ this 1890s-set clarion call to comedic double entendres is notable for West’s ‘discovery’ of Cary Grant casually walking on the lot, his sex appeal already obvious.  
• • Stephen Schaefer wrote: Mae West cast him as her lover. Both ‘Night’ and ‘She Done Him Wrong’ and all the others have audio commentaries.  
• • Stephen Schaefer wrote: The late TCM host Robert Osborne offers an intro for ‘She Done Him Wrong’ and there’s a bonus cartoon: ‘She Done Him Right.’
• • Mae West: This film was peak Mae West • •  ...
• • To be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Boston Herald; published on Tuesday, 11 May 2021.
• • On Wednesday, 11 August 1937 • •
• • It would be Mae West's least favorite photo. Mae sits on a smiling crescent cardboard moon, proudly displaying her wedding ring.
• • The Cairns Post, a Queensland, Australia newspaper, offered this vintage portrait to their readership on Wednesday, 11 August 1937.
• • "Come up and see me some time," says Mae West, photographed here with her husband, Frank Wallace, 26 years ago.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • John Miljan says Mae West is such a talented actress that the camera is unable to do justice to her many subtleties of characterization and depths of feeling.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "A quiet country estate would bore me. I'm a city gal and I like rackets — — and I don't mean what you think."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article from U.P.I.  mentioned Mae West, who had just had a stroke.
• • Mae West, the voluptuous 'Come Up and See Me Sometime' Gal • •
• • Vernon Scott wrote: HOLLYWOOD -- Mae West, the voluptuous 'Come Up And See Me Sometime' siren of the 1930s, was moved out of the intensive care unit and back to a regular room Wednesday to continue her recovery from two strokes and a serious fall.
• • Vernon Scott wrote: Miss West, who is listed in stable condition, was admitted to Good Samaritan Hospital Aug. 11 after suffering a concussion and stroke in a fall at her home. She suffered a second paralytic stroke while at the hospital. ...
• • Source: U.P.I.; published on Thursday, 14 August 1980
• • 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 4,797th 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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