Malcolm H. Oettinger profiled MAE WEST for Screenland. Since this interview has rarely been seen, let us enjoy it together. This is part 3 of 13.
• • “Going West” • •
• • Mae West: Smashed attendance records • •
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: Meeting Mae West is like attending a convention.
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: You meet people going, coming, waiting, and there is an air of confusion strewn thickly about.
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: She was in her Paramount theatre dressing-room, resting between two of her five performances daily.
• • Mae West: Looks less spectacular in person • • …
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Screenland; published in the issue dated for June 1933.
• • On Wednesday, 27 April 1927 • •
• • On Wednesday, 27 April 1927, shortly after daybreak, Mae West was released from her jail cell at the Women's Workhouse and then wrote about her experiences for Liberty Magazine.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • How much should Miss 1935 weigh? Considerable controversy had been aroused over an edict of the American Society of Beauticians that said the ideal American girl of 1935 should weigh only 100 pounds.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I never found anyone I liked well enough to marry. [sic] I might have, I suppose, if things had been different in my set-up. But I didn't."
• • Note: By the time she got to Hollywood, Mae West had wed twice and kept both relationships a secret — from her parents and from the world.
• • Note: In April 1911, Mae wed her skinny vaudeville partner Frank Wallace. There's a suggestion that perhaps Mae thought she might have been pregnant at the time they were on tour, in the same show ("A Florida Enchantment"), and she agreed to a wedding. But they quickly separated when they returned home to New York.
• • Note: In 1913 or 1914, Mae wed a darkly handsome, muscular, successful Italian accordionist, Guido Deiro. After Mae secretly aborted their child, Guido Deiro wanted a divorce and (soon after) he married his fourth wife, who gave him a son.
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article in The Orlando Sentinel mentioned Mae West.
• • "I met her, Mae West, not Catherine the Great, very briefly" • •
• • Allen Rose of The Sentinel Staff wrote: It was 1944, at the height of World War II. Stevens Hotel in Chicago.
• • Allen Rose wrote: Mae West was starring in a Windy City mainstage production of "Catherine Was Great," a comedy about Catherine the Great of Russia, who also found men to be the perfect pastime during a humdrum 18th century marriage to Grand Duke Peter. …
• • Source: Orlando Sentinel; published on Wednesday, 20 April 1988
• • 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 4,900 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,981st 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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