Mae West: Risque Nature

MAE WEST is back onscreen. This assessment of her Blu-ray line-up is by Stephen Bjork. This is Part 2 of his lengthy review.
• • "I'm No Angel" (Blu-ray Review) • •
• • Mae West: Risque Nature • •
• • Stephen Bjork wrote: While the film was directed by Wesley Ruggles, it’s definitely Mae West’s show, all the way.

• • Stephen Bjork wrote: "I’m No Angel" is sometimes referred to as a pre-Code film, which isn’t quite accurate.
• • Stephen Bjork wrote: It was produced after the Production Code was adopted by the MPAA in 1930, but before Joseph Breen was appointed the head of the Production Code Administration in 1934.
• • Stephen Bjork wrote: During that brief period, the Code wasn’t rigorously enforced.
• • Stephen Bjork wrote: And as a result, content slipped through which never would have passed muster with the notoriously draconian Breen.
• • Mae West: Safer in a cage • • . . .
• • Stephen Bjork’s article will continue on the next post.
• • Source: The Digital Bits; published on Friday, 30 July  2021.  
• • On Sunday, 25 August 1912 in Brooklyn • •
• • Mae West was seen on the stage of the New Brighton Theatre in Brooklyn's Coney Island area on 25 August 1912. The New Brighton always booked top tier vaudeville acts.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • You should have seen Mae West practicing rope-twirling in the wide-open spaces of the Paramount lot!
• • "It's a good idea," murmured the hair-patting, hip-swinging blonde. "I've never had much trouble roping in my men, but this ought to make it even easier!"
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "It's got sex and comedy. It's my personality. I put in all the things the public expects of me. Yet it's different. None of my stories is the same. I never use anything I've done before for the basic plot. If you've seen one of my pictures, you haven't seen them all. I always forget everything I've ever done and so I start from scratch."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A famous gossip column mentioned Mae West.
• • Louella Parsons wrote: Snapshots of Hollywood collected at random: Mae West, dripping with orchids, in a ringside seat with her boy friend, Jim Timony; B. P. Schulberg and Sylvia Sidney on the other side of the ring; Roger Pryor and Ann Sothern, Adela Rogers and the new boy friend, Enzo Fiermonte, Raoul Walsh, Adolph Zukor and dozens of other film celebrities, watching these bouts;  ...
• • Source: Gossip Column by Louella Parsons rpt by The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; published on Saturday, 25 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 4,800 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,807th 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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