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 40 of a lengthy piece.
• • Laughing off the “Fatness” ― Mae West’s Body Image and Female Spectators in the Early 1930s • •
• • Mae West: Was Mae the same woman onscreen and offscreen? • •
• • No clear division between extractional and fictional personae • •
• • Mio Hatokai wrote: As for Mae West, there seems to be no clear division between extractional and fictional personae in terms of reception.
• • Mio Hatokai wrote: That is to say, contemporary fans most likely saw the actress herself behind her on-screen characters, and regarded Mae West in real life synonymous with her on-screen personae in terms of reception.
• • The Age When Legs Were Confidential • •
• • Mae West: Paramount films focused on her curvy figure • • ...
• • Mio Hatokai’s lengthy article will continue on the next post.
• • Source: Academic anthology on film stars released by Waseda University, 2015.
• • On Thursday, 14 December 1944 • •
• • On Thursday, 14 December 1944, the motion picture was onscreen in Adelaide at the Mayfair Theatre.
• • Much good material has been included and the film makes fair entertainment, though the burlesque queen herself achieves nothing more than her usual quota of powerful presences and ageing wisecracks.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Hollywood psychic Kenny Kingston started talking about Mae West. I don’t know how her name came up. Maybe he’d somehow gotten onto the subject of women with shoulders like an NFL linebacker. At any rate, Kingston let it drop that Mae West is gainfully employed in the afterlife.
• •“Right now, Mae West is greeting people on the Other Side,” he said. “She’s a greeter.”
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Nearly all my work is based on true facts."
• • Mae West said: "Tired of all those jokes about my figure and my man talk? No, if people expect me to be the same off-stage — — why I call that flattery."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The New Yorker featured an article on Mae West.
• • “The Strong Woman: Mae West” • •
• • Claudia Roth Pierpont wrote: In her final film, the all but posthumous "Sextette," the eighty-three-year-old Mae West played an ageless sex goddess. …
• • Source: The New Yorker; published on Sunday, 3 November 1996
• • 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 4,886th 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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