Mae West: Sex? Seriously?

MAE WEST met her fans on the silver screen and between the pages of the day’s popular fan magazines, all of whom skated dizzily on the surface of facts and never did any fact-checking. This is the first section, Part 1, segment 4 of 32.
• • "The Real Mae West" • •
• • Mae West: Boisterous philosophy • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Somehow, through her utter frankness and honesty, her double meanings are not offensive even to the most sensitive.

• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Mae West shattered every tradition of the screen as well as the box office, and has contradicted every theory of stardom by her unconventionality, her ribaldry, her boisterous philosophy.  
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: She doesn't believe that sex should be taken seriously, but with a laugh.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: She is unconventional, she says, because Joan of Arc was unconventional, and look at what she did for France.
• • Mae West: A code of her own • • ...   
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The New Movie Magazine; issue dated for June 1934.
• • On Sunday, 20 May 1934 in The L.A. Times • •
• • The article "So Mae West's Slipping? Not So She Can Notice It!" was published in The Los Angeles Times in their weekend edition on Sunday, 20 May 1934. By then Mae had two motion picture hits behind her and her third "Belle of the Nineties" would be released in September 1934.
• • Plan Ahead: Saturday, 21 May 2022 • •
• • Women and Cocaine will present Mae West in "She Done Him Wrong" (Paramount, 1933).
• • Where: London's Cinema Museum on Dugard Way.
• • British Mae mavens, head’s up, mates.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Compared to Brando, Beatty, or Stewart Granger, actress Mae West was a paragon of the Protestant work ethic. Few worked harder in Hollywood. Her famous sexual innuendo and throwaway style were the products of much rewriting and rehearsal. She remains a theatrical, and rather Victorian, figure and the film career was limited by censorship battles and studio politics.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Since man started giving woman any sort of an even chance, the female of our species has got ahead quickly. More swiftly than has man, when you think of the comparative time woman has been free to act and think for herself."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article about a movie mentioned Mae West.
• • "Bridesmaids, why women are funny, and who makes you laugh?" • •
• • Reviewing the new screen comedy "Bridesmaids," Carrie Rickey wrote: Instead, I submit Exhibits A through J as proof of Why Women Are Funny.
• • Exhibit A: Mae West calculating Cary Grant's assets while explaining her hobby in “She Done Him Wrong” [1933]: "It was a toss-up whether I went out for diamonds or sang in the choir. The choir lost." ...
• • Source: Philly (dot) com; posted on Wednesday, 18 May 2011
• • 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 4,998th 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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