Mae West: Safer in a Cage

MAE WEST is back onscreen. This assessment of her Blu-ray line-up is by Stephen Bjork. This is Part 3 of his lengthy review.
• • "I'm No Angel" (Blu-ray Review) • •
• • Mae West: Safer in a cage • •
• • Stephen Bjork, quoting film dialogue: “Tira can handle them cats like nobody else. She's safer in that cage than she is in bed.”

• • Stephen Bjork, quoting film dialogue: “I don't doubt that.”
• • Stephen Bjork wrote: Tira is one of Mae West’s best characters, a woman who knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to do whatever is necessary to get it.
• • Stephen Bjork wrote: She isn’t ashamed of herself, and instead of being the one who has to play defense against a society which is unwilling to accept an empowered woman, she’s the aggressor in taking action against someone who she feels has done her wrong.
• • Mae West: Tira as a huntress • • . . .
• • Stephen Bjork’s article will continue on the next post.
• • Source: The Digital Bits; published on Friday, 30 July  2021.  
• • On Thursday, 26 August 1954 • •
• • According to vintage newspaper ads, the roving "Mae West Revue" opened their performance schedule in Reno, Nevada starting on Thursday, 26 August 1954.  
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • According to the Mayors of some seaport cities now in convention in New York, Mae West is TOPS!  Asked by Paul Moss, Commissioner of Licenses, who their favorite screen star was, they unanimously selected Mae so Boris Morros, in appreciation, is having the Mayors as guests of the N. Y. Paramount today. Miss West is now in her fifth week at this house with her newest motion picture, "Goin' to Town.”   
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "My pictures don't shock me, but I have been genuinely shocked by stories and some scenes I have seen in pictures."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An Esquire reporter interviewed Mae West.
• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: Mae West lives in the same apartment she has had since she first went to Hollywood in 1932. It is called The Ravenswood Apartments.
• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: Mae West tends to get deliberately vague about her financial affairs, but she has always had a reputation as a hard-nosed businesswoman, and estimates of her total take can range from four to six million. …
• • 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 4,808th 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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