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 31 of 32.
• • "The Real Mae West" • •
• • Mae West: Discovered she liked being around boys • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: She continued her schooling, off and on, to please her mother, and when she was "going on twelve," she made another interesting discovery. It was the interest — reciprocated, she admits — she had for boys.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: "Gee, I loved the boys," she says. "Went around with lots of them and played with them. There was a gang of us in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Yeah, of course, we would have fights."
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: And since she was a husky child, she'd smack a boy on the nose as quickly as she would a girl.
• • Mae West: Typifies all that is seductive • • ...
• • The first part of Mae West’s “life story” will be concluded on the next post.
• • The second part of Mae West’s “life story” by Aileen St. John Brenon will appear in due course.
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• • Source: The New Movie Magazine; issue dated for June 1934.
• • On Thursday, 28 June 1934 • •
• • On Thursday, 28 June 1934 this article appeared in the Nevada State Journal as well as other newspapers in the USA and abroad.
• • "It Ain't No Sin," starring Mae West, Hit by Churchmen • •
• • New York, June 27, AP — — A Mae West movie of the same type that had established the swaggering actress as the premier screen siren and one featuring Dolores Del Rio as the French Madame du Barry became the first victims of a militant church campaign for decency in motion pictures. ...
• • Both the Mae West "Ain't No Sin" and the actress Miss Del Rio's biographical picture were withdrawn from application for licensing in New York State. The censors said they did not know what "sin" referred to in the Mae West film.
• • Paramount Productions Inc., producers of Miss West's pictures, announced it was being sent back to Hollywood for revision and would be reissued another time.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West performed "After You've Gone" in "Sextette" [1978]. She said this had been a song she fondly remembered from her New York years when she frequented the hottest night spots in Harlem.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Half the people in the world impersonate me. Men, women, and even children. They put their hands on their hips or something."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A Seattle newspaper mentioned Mae West.
• • Sandi Doughton wrote: The country’s first accordion superstar was Guido Deiro, who played in Seattle saloons before being hired to demonstrate the newfangled piano accordion at the city’s Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909. By 1910, he was earning $600 a week — the equivalent of $18,000 today. The debonair Italian also caught the eye of actress Mae West.
• • Sandi Doughton wrote: “One of the great female icons of the twentieth century was the lover of America’s most important accordionist — and at the time, the accordionist was the bigger star,” Triggs writes in “Accordion Revolution.”
• • Sandi Doughton wrote: Not everyone was a fan, though. One critic described the accordion as “a fearful instrument that looks like a cash register, and sounds worse.” …
• • Source: The Seattle Times; published on Friday, 20 May 2022
• • 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 • •
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• 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 5,025th blog
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career of Mae West, herself an American original.
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