Mae West: Sugarcoated Sex

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 4 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: Should sex on the screen be sugar-coated? • •
• • Hilary Lynn’s interview with Mae West: "I think that might offer difficulties. Others say it should be camouflaged. I might go for that theory myself someday. Some say it isn't good for the kiddies. Well, not in overdoses,” said Mae West with a laugh.

• • Hilary Lynn’s interview with Mae West: "And who hasn't heard the old gag that there's too much sex in the movies and not enough good clean fun? Give us more musicals by Shirley Temple and Westerns by Zane Grey." 
• • Hilary Lynn’s interview with Mae West: "While others declare: 'We'll take a little sex with our movies, but we'll take it wrapped in orange blossoms and yards of Rosepoint lace. We'd like it set in a cottage for two, in a room with a view' — You know, the way they staged it when Gaynor and Farrell were screen lovey-doveying.”
• • Mae West: When sex on the screen rears its wicked head • • …  
• • Modern Screen’s lengthy article will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for April 1936.
• • On Saturday, 5 October 1918 • •
• • Mae West received top billing in the review of "Sometime" by The New York Times, coverage that was first published on Saturday, 5 October 1918.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Everything Miss Mae West wears or sponsors is immediately seized upon by Europe's smartest women," said Victor Stiebel, the famous London designer. And he frankly stated that having met his style-revolutionizer should and would increase his standing in the designing world.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "If I hadn't started writing plays when I did, I think I could have gone the other way and wasted my whole life on sex. I don't ever remember not feeling sexy. I used to get tired of feeling that way. I used to exercise, thinking that would stop it."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Spectator mentioned Mae West.
• • "The Theatre" • •
• • There is, too, an exquisite little performance by Marion Wilson as Fifi; and a series of staggering irruptions into the scene by Enid Stamp Taylor, who has clearly made an intimate and successful study of the technique of Mae West, and who sports, in solitary splendour, an accent recognisably American.  ...
• • Source: The Spectator Archive; published on Thursday, 24 September 1942
• • 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 4,836th 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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