Mae West: Insinuating Strut

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 20 of 32.
• • "The Real Mae West" • •
• • Mae West: How she acquired that insinuating strut • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Mae West's mother was a native Parisienne [sic].  
• • Note: Matilda was born in Germany; the Census noted her language as “German.”

• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Miss West says she got that insinuating strut of hers walking over men. But as long as her mother was alive, her daughter Mae accorded her a devotion and a reverence seldom seen in these days of scorn for family ties and neglect in general of the older generation.  
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Until the time of her mother's death three years ago, the two were seldom apart.  
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Miss West went to her mother for advice about her life, for counsel about her work, and for discussion of all the problems besetting an active and strenuous life.
• • Mae West: Is she “hard-boiled” in her private life? • • ...    
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The New Movie Magazine; issue dated for June 1934.
• • On Wednesday, 13 June 1956 • •
• • On Wednesday, 13 June 1956, Weirton Daily Times announced that The United States Army will throw an infantry battalion at Win this summer. The troops, along with such other visual bon-bons as Kim Novak, Mae West, and Elvis Presley, have been lined up for future assignments on NBC-TV's upcoming Steve Allen show, "The Allen Hour." ...
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Earl Wilson wrote: Mae West, who was Charles Collingwood's first guest on Person to Person, until the network cancelled it, asked him before the taping how her gown looked, "It looks chaste, simple, and enormously becoming,” said Collingwood.
• • Mae West wiggled a hip and demanded, "Whaddya mean — — enormously?”  
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "She who laughs lasts."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A California newspaper mentioned Mae West.
• • “The Heat’s On” starring Mae West, Victor Moore, and William Gaxton. To publicize his new show, starring Mae West, a promoter has the show raided...
• • Source: Daily Independent Journal (San Rafael, Calif.); published on Saturday, 13 June 1959
• • 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 • •
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