MAE WEST didn’t like working with W.C. Fields. But fans continue to appreciate the “Old West” comedy they made together in 1940. This is Part 1 of 2.
• • DVD Review: Mae West: The Glamour Collection on Universal Home Video • •
• • Five fine Mae West films thrown together in a shoddy white plastic package • •
• • Dan Callahan wrote: The DVD set concludes with the semi-classic “My Little Chickadee,” where Mae West met her match, W.C. Fields, another resolutely uningratiating, egocentric vaudevillian.
• • Dan Callahan wrote: “Is it possible for us to be lonesome together?” asks the Great Man, and West smiles with appreciation at his wintry, cynical solitude.
• • Dan Callahan wrote: This is the only time she really pays attention to someone else in her movies, and it makes the somewhat flat Chickadee an endlessly watchable source of delight, a pre-WWII Theater of the Absurd.
• • Mae West: Sex with Harpo Marx • • . . .
• • Dan Callahan’s amusing piece will be concluded on our next post.
• • Source: Slant Magazine; published on Thursday, 30 March 2006.
• • On Tuesday, 8 September 1914 • •
• • In early September 1914, accordionist Guido Deiro was booked at the Majestic Theatre, San Antonio, as a headliner. On Tuesday, 8 September 1914 the San Antonio Light announced the featured entertainment, noting that another variety artist was Mae West, "the Eva Tanguay of vaudeville" — — including her name (with no fanfare) among six other acts.
• • On Friday, 8 September 1922 in Variety • •
• • "Mae West, author, loses her pianist," noted Variety in their issue dated for Friday, 8 September 1922.
• • Harry Richman — — an unknown in 1922 when Mae West gave him a chance — — ditched her to join singer Nora Bayes [1880 — 1928] in her vaudeville act. Awww.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • All in all, the "Mae West Revue" is a show that is playing to capacity audiences every performance. It is a show that is being acclaimed as the finest on any night club stage.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “Well, I knew W.C. Fields was a clever man, a comedian. Universal wanted me to use him. I said fine. We started workin' together but he started gettin' envious because I wrote the thing. He asked if I'd mind him writing a few of his own scenes, and I said no as long as he didn't go write anything for me. He was plottin' though. He'd hold up the shooting on the scenes he'd written and you see they'd be vital to the story. Among other things he wanted the billing to read, ‘Mae West and W.C. Fields’ instead of ‘Mae West with W.C. Fields’."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A foreign newspaper mentioned Mae West.
• • Grand Theatre — Second Week for Mae West • •
• • Film World wrote: Only films that prove more than usually popular are permitted to occupy the screen for two weeks at the Grand Theatre and, naturally, the Mae West success, "I'm No Angel," falls into this class. It will enter on its second and final week today, giving way to the fine Claudette Colbert comedy, "Three-Cornered Moon" (Paramount), next Friday.
• • Film World added: There may be different opinions about Mae West, but there is no doubt of her popularity today. …
• • Source: The West Australian; published on Friday, 7 September 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 4,817th 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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