Mae West: Wanted to Help

MAE WEST made an impression on John Robert Powers, who introduced her to Lyons Wickland, a fashion model who co-starred as Jimmy Stanton in “Sex.”
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• • Mae West: One trait is truly admirable, he said • •
• • Evelyn Williams wrote: "But there's one thing about Mae West that is truly admirable."
• • Evelyn Williams wrote: John Robert Powers, who certainly knows his Broadway history, relished telling me this story.  
• • Evelyn Williams wrote: "She doesn't say anything unless she means it. When she told Lyons that she would remember him, she was sincere. I will bet there wasn't a more surprised man in the world than Lyons Wickland when he got a message from Mae West. She wanted to help him, wanted to do something for him.”

• • Evelyn Williams wrote: "Well," finished talent agent John Robert Powers, "Mae West got Lyons Wickland a part in her motion picture [sic] at a mighty fancy salary.”
• • Mae West: Repaid a debt to Lyons in her own fashion • • …  
• • This interview will conclude tomorrow with Part 5.   
• • Source: Picture Play; published in the issue dated for January 1934.
• • On Saturday, 6 January 2001 • •

• • The screen classics starring Mae West "I'm No Angel" and "She Done Him Wrong" became the movie package acquired by Turner Classic Movies. "I'm No Angel" made its premiere on that station on Saturday, 6 January 2001.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The fact that Mae West wouldn't consent to Jack LaRue's appearing in "I'm No Angel," may develop into a feud. Everybody is watching, for LaRue hasn't hesitated to tell about this with injured emphasis.  
• • It seems Mae's objection was that she had Jack LaRue in her stage company once, and didn’t  entertain a 100 per cent opinion of him as an actor.  
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "In an Ed Wynn show, I did a shimmy. But never, never did I do the shimmy shewabble!''
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Cheat Sheet featured an article on Mae West.
• • Why Did Mae West Turn Down a Role in a Movie with Elvis Presley? • •
• • Laura Dorwart wrote: Mae West patently refused to take on the role of Maggie because she didn’t want to be seen as a maternal figure.
• • Laura Dorwart wrote: “In the original screenplay, Maggie was to be Elvis’s mother,” Sonny wrote. “That was all Mae West needed to hear. ‘I ain’t never played mothers in my life, and I’m certainly not going to now,’ she reportedly said.”
• • Laura Dorwart wrote: Ultimately, the role Mae West turned down was taken on by Barbara Stanwyck instead.  …
• • Source: Showbiz Cheat Sheet ; published on Sunday, 24 January 2021
• • 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 4,903rd 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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