During fan magazine interviews, MAE WEST was often coy, guarded, or made a game of her responses. But during this rare sit-down with Hilary Lynn, the subject of sex on screen steered Mae into being more sincere. Since this Westian gem has been overlooked for 85 years, we dusted it off for you Mae-mavens. This is Part 10 of 13 segments.
• • Has Mae West a Dual Personality? • •
• • Mae West advises you to go after your man boldly, but Hollywood's smoothest gents claim she doesn't practice what she preaches. • •
• • Mae West: Our one-of-a-kind Miss West • •
• • Hilary Lynn wrote: “Please tell me more, Mr. Cavanagh,” I stammered. And Mr. Cavanagh proceeded to explain a few things about our one-of-a-kind Miss West which probably you, and certainly I, never heard before.
• • Paul Cavanagh: Mae West's co-star, "Goin' to Town" • •
• • Hilary Lynn wrote: According to her very dapper leading man Paul Cavanagh, off-screen, Mae West is different. Mae is difficult to know. She's built a smoke screen of reserve about herself.
• • Mae West: Quite a staggering surprise • • …
• • Modern Screen’s lengthy article will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for April 1936.
• • On Thursday, 13 October 1932 • •
• • During mid-October in 1932, Mae's jewel robbery was on the front page. One headline "Diamond Lil Robbed of Jewels" ran in the Omaha-Bee News on Thursday, 13 October 1932. This terrifying crime occurred just months after Mae had relocated to Los Angeles, California to be in the speakeasy film "Night After Night" with George Raft.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Recalling an earlier conversation with the movie queen, Rick Du Brow wrote: At that interview by the way I inquired if Mae West could cook and she replied, "Honey, nobody ever asked me." The lady is news plain and simple whatever she does.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I feel sexy all the time. And, face it, sex is behind everything you do. A divine power."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A newspaper mentioned Mae West and her new film in 1935.
• • “Goin’ to Town” • •
• • Ann Ross wrote: After that the picture settles down to melodrama with occasional rude borrowings from burlesque. Miss West prowls and growls her way through the rest of the story, falls in love with a handsome earl (Paul Cavanagh) and sings the famous aria from “Samson and Delilah” a little as though it were Frankie and Johnnie—just a little, not enough to be really funny. …
• • Source: Maclean’s Magazine (Canada); published on Saturday, 15 June 1935
• • 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 4,842nd 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.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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