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 2 of 32.
• • "The Real Mae West" • •
• • Mae West: Blonde, bold, bad, and buxom • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: All the others — Rudolph Valentino, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, and the late Wallace Reid — served an apprenticeship before the cameras of at least two or three pictures — in some instances, years — but when Mae West, blonde, bold, bad, and buxom, swaggered onto the screen for the first time, 20,000,000 people started listening to her song.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: "Goodness," she exclaimed, "what beautiful diamonds!"
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: "Goodness," retorted Mae West in that insinuating drawl of hers, "had nothing to do with them, dearie."
• • Note: Mae was tossing off a well-worn quip by Texas Guinan.
• • Note: And did Aileen see “Night After Night” [1932] starring George Raft? Because the checkroom scene certainly was not Mae’s first appearance onscreen. She's seen on the sidewalk, then entering..
• • Mae West: The only reason that a speakeasy film was re-booked • • …
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The New Movie Magazine; issue dated for June 1934.
• • On Saturday, 18 May 1912 in Variety • •
• • Frank Bohm bought a generous ad in Variety (issue dated for 18 May 1912) to help publicize his client Mae West as "The Scintillating Singing Comedienne, Late of Ziegfeld's Moulin Rouge." Billboard gave the vaudevillian's act a favorable review the following month.
• • On Thursday, 18 May 1933 in Camperdown Chronicle • •
• • Costume designer Travis Banton spoke about beauty standards in motion pictures and the measurements of Mae West, Claudette Colbert, and other top actresses. The Australian newspaper Camperdown Chronicle printed the article in a Thursday issue on 18 May 1933.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Decades ago, a saucy wiggle from Mae West or an off-color mumble from W.C. Fields could trigger the wrath of movie censors.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • New Movie Magazine mentioned Mae West.
• • “Good Dame” — B [Directed by Marion Gering. Paramount] • •
• • The same old carnival background that has served for Mae West's "I'm No Angel" and Clara Bow's "Hoop-la" has been drafted again for this item.
• • The set hasn't deteriorated but the photoplays acted before it are getting steadily worse.
• • "Good Dame" has an acute case of story trouble. …
• • Source: New Movie Magazine; published in the issue dated for June 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 4,996th 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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