Mae West: Forgotten?

According to Playbill, MAE WEST’s playwriting has been “forgotten.” Do you agree? We do not.
• • 7 Forgotten Female Playwrights from Eras Past With Lots to Say • •
• • Meet a few of history's playwrights who questioned their place in the world (and the men who were running it.) • •
• • Mae West: “Sex” (1926) • •
• • Protagonist Margy LaMont talking to antagonist and “dirty charity” Clara: “Say, you’ve got a nerve putting yourself on a pedestal above me. The things I’ve done, I had to do for a living. I know it was wrong. I’m not trying to alibi myself. But you’ve done those same things for other reasons.”

• • Playbill’s Leah Putnam wrote: A silver screen icon, Mae West wrote a few plays, including “Sex” which landed her in jail for eight days as religious groups protested the show (sic). The play, which also starred West [as Margy LaMont], follows a cast of prostitutes trying to better their lives.
• • Note: It was Mae’s efforts to launch “The Drag,” her new homosexual play, that brought City Hall’s guillotine down on her.
• • Playbill’s Leah Putnam wrote: It opened April 26, 1926 to a commercially successful Broadway run of 375 performances and played to over 325,000 audience members before it was shut down for obscenity in February 1927.
• • Playbill’s Leah Putnam wrote: Mae West wrote the controversial work under the pen name Jane Mast.
• • Source: Playbill; published on Wednesday, 20 April 2022.
• • On Wednesday, 12 May 1971 • •
• • On Wednesday, 12 May 1971 Mae West, UCLA’s Woman of the Century, spoke to students after a screening of her 1933 classic movie “I’m No Angel.”
• • On Tuesday, 12 May 1998 • •
• • The record album "Mae Day: Masquers Club Salutes Mae West" was released on Tuesday, 12 May 1998 on the label Bacchus. The original recording date was on Saturday, 14 April 1973.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West won't have to worry about getting a job now: she's formed her own movie production company. Mae West Empire Pictures Co., James Timony, Mae's business manager said today, was incorporated at Sacramento, the state capitol, with Louis R. Lurie of Sacramento, as president. Mae is a vice president of the $5,000,000 corporation.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Well, they've sued me for everything else."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The foreign fashion press mentioned Mae West in May.
• • "London Says Mae West Curves Are Fashion's Whims" • •
• • Writing from London, Nell Murray wrote: Just to demonstrate that there must be some truth in the announcement from America that the female form divine for 1934 would weigh at least 12 pounds heavier than it did last year (in order to accommodate the threatened Mae West curves), a London dress designer took note ...
• • Source: Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Queensland); published on Sunday, 6 May 1934
• • 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 4,992nd 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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