Cineaste printed a tribute to MAE WEST, erroneously posting a teenage photo of Clara Bow [1905–1965] taken in 1921 by Nickolas Muray and labeling Clara as “young Mae.” The piece is fully available to subscribers (who, I hope are pointing out the incorrect picture). Since Cineaste called Mae “a ghost in the room,” their selection of a wrong picture is even more ironic. This excerpt is Part 5 of 5.
• • Playing Her Script Their Way: A Reconsideration of Mae West • •
• • Mae West: Mae was the heavy artillery • •
• • J. E. Smyth wrote: Jean Harlow, according to critic Graham Greene, “totes a breast the way a man totes a gun.”
• • J. E. Smyth wrote: Then, of course, there was Mae West.
• • J. E. Smyth wrote: She was the whole show, the woman who took no prisoners, who, as co-star and friend George Raft remembered, “stole everything but the cameras” in her first film role in "Night After Night" (1932).
• • J. E. Smyth wrote: She was the era’s sex gangster…
• • This excerpt has now been concluded. However, there is more content inside Cineaste.
• • Source: Cineaste, Vol. XLVII, No. 1; published in Fall 2021.
• • On Monday, 17 January 1944 • •
• • An article about the motion picture "The Heat's On" starring Mae West was published in Hollywood Citizen-News in Monday's issue on 17 January 1944.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • By making fun of carnality (“Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?”), Mae West took the harm out of her own salaciousness. She didn’t exude the raw danger of a Tennessee Williams a couple of decades down the line. Instead she chose to poke fun at prudish shibboleths.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Prize fights are my chief form of relaxation. Watching boys in action takes my mind off the studio and business problems."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Modern Screen mentioned Mae West.
• • The big news about Mae West at the moment is that last month she held up a bank.
• • Our Mae held the bank up for an hour after closing time, and all she had to do was phone in and tell the boys she was coming up to see them.
• • It seems Mae is one of the bank's most solvent patrons, so the entire staff waited until four o'clock, when Mae swished in accompanied by five ominous looking gentlemen who couldn't have been anything but bodyguards. …
• • Source: Modern Screen; published in the issue dated for March 1937
• • 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 4,910th 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.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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