MAE WEST’s plump, curvaceous body was a vital element in her comedy. Academics have emphasized that “excessive body is one of the qualities of female unruliness, suggesting that she is unwilling or unable to control her physical appetites.” Japanese film historian Mio Hatokai discusses how Hollywood publicists and fan zines responded to this “fatness” in 1933. This is Part 17 of a lengthy piece.
• • Laughing off the “Fatness” ― Mae West’s Body Image and Female Spectators in the Early 1930s • •
• • Mae West: Movie-goers paid attention to her body • •
• • Mio Hatokai wrote: The release of “I’m No Angel” (1933) seems to have drawn the audience’s attention to Mae West’s plump and generously curvy body much further.
• • Bernice Gregory’s letter to The New Movie Magazine [January 1934 issue] • •
• • Mio Hatokai wrote: In Photoplay of the same month, there are four letters from the readers about West in “The Audience Talks Back” section.
• • Mae West: “The Audience Talks Back” ― and how • • ...
• • Mio Hatokai’s lengthy article will continue on the next post.
• • Source: Academic anthology on film stars released by Waseda University, 2015.
• • On Saturday, 10 November 1928 • •
• • The New Yorker published a lengthy Mae West interview titled "Diamond Mae" illustrated with a cheeky illustration on page 26. Written by Thyra Samter Winslow, this profile appeared in the issue dated for the week of 10 November 1928.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Nemo wrote: Did I mention that Mae West's whole family had moved into the same apartment house with the "St. Louis woman"? Anyhow, her sister Beverly, and husband, have one of the front suites and, while waiting for orders from headquarters, their chauffeur parks in front of the building and amuses himself by turning the auto radio on, full blast.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "If your man's dynamite to you, it's up to you to be his match."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A California newspaper mentioned Mae West.
• • Spotting Mae West • •
• • L.A. Times columnist Robin Abcarian wrote: “My first awesome celebrity sighting happened in the late 1970s when my Dad and I were driving his Dodge van over the Sepulveda Pass, and I looked down into a limo in the next lane, and Mae West was sitting in the back seat.” …
• • Source: L.A. Times; published on Wednesday, 7 March 2018
• • 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 seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,862nd 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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