Mae West: The Real McCoy

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 3 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: How sex should be presented on the screen • •

• • Hilary Lynn wrote: Mae West’s eyes are the poet's favorite dewy violet — and the lashes, like Greta Garbo's (as was just recently revealed after all these years of silence) are not the handiwork of a make-up man — they're the real McCoy. Black, long, silky, and with that devastating upswing.
• • Hilary Lynn’s interview with Mae West: "Love and sex may be considered old-fashioned by some," continued Mae, "but they still come in for their quota of after-dinner conversation along with the Italo-Ethiopian situation and what John Barrymore's next movie might be.”
• • Hilary Lynn’s interview with Mae West: "Everybody has his pet theory about how sex should be presented on the screen. Some say it should be done away with entirely. Personally," and here Mae West gave me one of those slow, smouldering glances and lazily stretched her white arms.
• • Mae West: Should sex on the screen be sugar-coated? • • …  
• • Modern Screen’s lengthy article will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for April 1936.
• • On Saturday, 4 October 1947 • •
• • "Shy Mae West!" • •
• • British correspondent Cecil Wilson wrote: Mae West, in London to play "Diamond Lil," was "on show" at the Savoy Hotel for newspapermen. And she put on the performance of her life to give them the Mae West they have come to  know on the screen.  ...
• • Source: The Singapore Free Press; published on Saturday, 4 October 1947.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West did her best to get around the bans with innuendo. For example, ‘Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.’
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I'm never dirty, dear. I'm interesting without bein' vulgar. I have taste."  
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An item in TV Guide in 1963 mentioned Mae West.
• • TV Guide wrote: Mae West is negotiating for a comedy cartoon series, "Pretty Mae," which would feature her voice behind a cartoon caricature of herself. Her only previous TV appearances have been the 1958 Oscar telecast and a "Red Skelton Hour" three years ago. …
• • Source: TV Guide; published on Saturday, 18 May 1963
• • 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 4,835th 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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