Mae West: Cupid Can Wait

Malcolm H. Oettinger profiled MAE WEST for Screenland. Since this interview has rarely been seen, let us enjoy it together. This is part 10 of 13.
• • “Going West” • •   
• • Mae West: The famous golden swan bed • •
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: She purchased the famous golden swan bed from Diamond Jim Brady. When she can't find a spot for it in a play, Mae keeps the bed in her country house.

• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: She has surrounded it with a roomful of gold furniture. "I never use that room," she said, "but it certainly looks swell."
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: Mae is not interested in matrimony.  
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: "I want to keep my mind on myself!" Mae explained succinctly. "Let them fall in love with me if they want to, but I don't fall in love with them. I got plenty to occupy me.  Pictures, personal appearances, stage plays, books. I'm too busy to be in love with anybody."
• • Mae West: Her films promise to be lusty, forthright, rowdy • • …  
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Screenland; published in the issue dated for June 1933.
• • On Saturday, 6 May 1944 • •
• • Syndicated columnist Earl Wilson reviewed "Catherine Was Great" and his comments were printed in the Los Angeles Daily News on Saturday, 6 May 1944.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Controversial news about Mae West's secret marriage to Frank Wallace in 1911 had "chased Hitler, the NRA, and the quintuplets off the front page of every newspaper in America for two weeks," explained the L.A. Times.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "You mustn't go away with the idea that men is the only subject I know anything about."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Business Times mentioned Mae West.
• • Hooray for Hollywood • •
• • Daniel Goh wrote: This spring, Gucci unleashes a cinematic collection, both lush and louche, that is a love letter to the Golden Age of movies.
• • Daniel Goh wrote: There were fur stoles (faux, of course) stolen from Jean Harlow, and Mae West evening gowns with plunging necklines dripping with bugle beads ...
• • Source: Business Times; posted on Thursday, 21 April 2022
• • 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 4,988th 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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