Mae West: An Influencer

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 12 of 32.
• • "The Real Mae West" • •
• • Mae West: How she’s influenced popular culture • •

• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Fashions, figures, diet, manners, social customs, even morals, as we shall see, have felt the influence of her strong personality.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: She was voted by the Seaman's Institute as their favorite actress.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: She was nominated a Kentucky Colonel by Governor Ruby Laffoon.
• • Mae West has a Rubens figure, ideal for bearing children • •  
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: The Central Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists endorsed her unanimously at its annual convention, whereat Dr. W. P. Holmes of Chicago delivered himself of these sentiments in regard to her Rubens figure: "If it is Mae West who is responsible for this new, yet age-old fashion, my hat is off to her. The return to plumpness is a boon to motherhood."
• • Mae West: One fan is the humorist J.P. McEvoy • • ...  
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The New Movie Magazine; issue dated for June 1934.
• • On Tuesday, 1 June 1999 • •
• • In VHS format, the 60-minute TV movie "Intimate Portrait: Mae West" [1999] was released on Tuesday, 1 June 1999.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West is the only person I ever saw who could decline to answer a question without loss of poise or some defensive bristling.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "You’re never too old to become younger."  
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The N.Y. Times interviewed playwright-actress Mae West.
• • Mae West said: “Some of the newspapers called my earlier plays garbage, but that sort of garbage was what my patrons wanted and I gave it to them. And, besides, Ibsen’s ‘Ghosts’ and ‘Sappho’ were called garbage and worse names than that when they were produced, and look at them now. ‘Ghosts’ is a classic, and maybe ten years from now they’ll want to see ‘Sex’ again and call it a classic.” …
• • Source: The N.Y. Times; published on Sunday, 22 April 1928
• • 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 5,006th 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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