MAE WEST is back onscreen. This assessment of her Blu-ray line-up is by Stephen Bjork. This is Part 5 of his lengthy review.
• • "I'm No Angel" (Blu-ray Review) • •
• • Mae West: A most quotable film • •
• • Stephen Bjork wrote: This one probably sums up the Mae West persona more than any other:
• • Stephen Bjork, quoting film dialogue: “Yeah, I'm always wonderful at night.”
• • Stephen Bjork, quoting film dialogue: “Tonight, you were especially good.”
• • Stephen Bjork, quoting film dialogue: “Well, when I'm good, I'm very good. But, when I'm bad... I’m better.”
• • Stephen Bjork wrote: I’m No Angel was shot on 35 mm film by cinematographer Leo Tover and framed at 1.37:1.
• • Stephen Bjork wrote: Unlike the Kino Lorber Studio Classics Blu-ray release of My Little Chickadee, which included detailed restoration notes in a title card at the end of the film, there’s no information available regarding the restoration process, or what elements were used.
• • Mae West: All the negatives are gone • • …
• • Stephen Bjork’s article will continue on the next post.
• • Source: The Digital Bits; published on Friday, 30 July 2021.
• • On Monday, 30 August 1948 • •
• • "Mae West Sued For Plagiarism" • •
• • Los Angeles.— U.P.I. — Mae West told a courtroom bulging with spectators that no woman could be expected to remember the order of 300 lovers. The "come up and see me sometime" star of stage and screen testified in defense of a $100,000 plagiarism suit charging she stole most of her play "Catherine was Great" from writers Edwin K. O'Brien and Michael Kane. Under cross-examination by Attorney Henry T. Moore, Miss West said she couldn't remember the sequence of Catherine the Great's lovers. When Moore became insistent, the sultry actress exploded: "I can't remember the order of them — — no woman could."
• • Miss West, dressed in slinky black satin (even to her gloves), said her play paid little attention to the actual number of Catherine's love affairs. "I did the best I could in a couple of hours of entertainment," she said. ...
• • Source: U.P.I. rpt in Statesville Daily Record; published on Monday, 30 August 1948.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Joyce Haber referred to Mae West as "the Last of the Living Legends" in The Los Angeles Times Calendar on Sunday, 30 August 1970.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "The script didn't grab me, so I rewrote my lines. You see, I already knew all the words. This was the first time I could use them. Still, I don't use any four letter words — — I don't need 'em!"
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An Esquire reporter interviewed Mae West.
• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: In her heyday she was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood, getting $300,000 a picture, plus an extra $100,000 for writing the script, no piffling sum during the Depression years.
• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: (In 1935, published Federal income tax reports credited her with earning $480,833, which made her the highest-salaried individual in the country, next to William Randolph Hearst, who topped her with $500,000.)
• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: “I haven’t done too bad, honey,” she says, with a silken smile. …
• • 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 4,810th 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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