Mae West: Her Wisecracks

In 1934, Picture Play, piqued by a New York newcomer’s meteoric rise, pondered this: “Is MAE WEST a Fizzle? A bold discussion of an important question!” This is Part 3 of 29 segments.
• • Is Mae West a Fizzle? • •
• • Mae West: Had a ready-made audience • •
• • Dorothy Herzog wrote: Her second talking picture, "I'm No Angel," was also her own story.

• • Dorothy Herzog wrote: Mae had a ready-made audience all over the country awaiting her second picture.
• • Dorothy Herzog wrote: In my opinion, it was a big disappointment.  
• • Dorothy Herzog wrote: Two wisecracks saved it from being a stencil of the first: "Beulah, peel me a grape," and “It’s not the men in my life. It’s the life in my men that counts, dearie.”  
• • Dorothy Herzog wrote: As a result of "I'm No Angel," however, those of us who have seen other cyclonic successes in pictures began to wonder.
• • Mae West: Is an original • • …    
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Picture Play; issue dated for May 1934.
• • On Sunday, 20 January 1929 • •
• • On Sunday, 20 January 1929 Mae brought "Diamond Lil" to Chicago, where it made its Midwest debut to a packed house. For most of the 16-week engagement, the play attracted a large audience in the Windy City.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • An “imaginative” meeting between frosty, anti-social Greta Garbo and sultry sex-empress Mae West generated commentary in a number of fan magazines early in 1933.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A fan magazine mentioned Mae West.
• • Another gym addict is Warren William. He builds the Body Beautiful at the bars — and not the horizontal ones like some of the boys around town. So there should be one waistline, anyhow, in Mae West's new epic "Go West, Young Man" …   
• • Source: Modern Screen; published on Friday, 18 September 1936
• • 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 4,913th 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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