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 21 of 32.
• • "The Real Mae West" • •
• • Mae West: Is she “hard-boiled” in her private life? • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: After her mother's death, Miss West, prostrate with grief, was unable to see a living soul for days, remaining in her room alone trying to reconcile herself with the loss of the person she loved most on earth.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: But I am ahead of my story. Let's go back to the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, where a clever little flaxen-haired child lived with her parents.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Battling Jack West, the one-time light-weight prizefighter, was her father, and it was from him that she received her first interest in the manly art of self-defense.
• • Mae West: An ardent fight fan • • ...
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The New Movie Magazine; issue dated for June 1934.
• • On Friday, 14 June 1991 in T.L.S. • •
• • An article "The invention of Mae West" written by Graham McCann was published in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4602, issue dated for 14 June 1991.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Handsome bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay once said this about Mae West: "She always knew who she was. The center of the world was always her."
• • The Hungarian hunk was invited to audition for Mae after she admired him on the cover of Strength and Health Magazine.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I wash my face with bottled water and good Castile soap."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A newspaper mentioned Mae West.
• • "Mae West Cagey in Tiff With Lawyer." • •
• • Headlines on June 14th read: "Mae West Cagey in Tiff with Lawyer."
• • Los Angeles, Calif. 14 June 1938 — When lawyer Joseph Rosen asked screen siren Mae West to "come up" and give a deposition explaining how much Paramount Studios paid her for screen rights to "Diamond Lil" and other questions prefacing the $1,000,000 suit playwright Mark Linder has filed against her, Mae simply had nothing to say. Lawyer Rosen raged and stormed and even threatened Miss West with contempt of court, but to no avail. She was silent on Linder's claims that on a 50-50 agreement with Mae, he is entitled to more than the $12,500 that he has already received from the screening of her first movie, "She Done Him Wrong." ...
• • Source: Syndicated article reprinted widely; published on Tuesday, 14 June 1938
• • 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 5,000 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,015th 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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