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 32 of 32.
• • "The Real Mae West" • •
• • Mae West: Typifies all that is seductive • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Popular as she always has been with boys and men, Mae West has never married [sic] and she has very definite reasons why she, who typifies all that is seductive and charming to mankind, has preferred to pursue her career in real life alone.
• • Notes • •
• • Oddly enough, though New Movie Magazine chronicled Tinseltown and West Coast screen stars, it was located on the East Coast in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
• • New Movie Magazine’s editorial offices operated from 55 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. This commercial building presently houses Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and numerous businesses.
• • Who was the London, England native Aileen St. John Brenon [17 April 1894 — 23 September 1967]?
• • The Brenons were a musical and theatrical family.
• • Aileen’s father Algernon had been a music critic, and her uncle Herbert Brenon was a prolific film director who directed the first cinematic adaptation of “The Great Gatsby” (1926).
• • Aileen’s sister Juliet [1895–1979] was a silent movie actress.She married the artist and influential theatrical designer Cleon Throckmorton; they lived in Greenwich Village.
• • Aileen was a music critic and theatrical publicist whose husband was art critic Thomas Craven.
• • The first part of Mae West’s “life story” has now concluded with this post.
• • The second part of Mae West’s “life story” by Aileen St. John Brenon will appear in due course.
• • Source: The New Movie Magazine; issue dated for June 1934.
• • On Friday, 29 June 1934 • •
• • Mae heard more than enough objections about "It's No Sin" from Joe Breen, Catholic priests, and the censors in New York State. "If they think it's too warm, I'll cool it off," Mae told a Newsweek reporter. On Friday, 29 June 1934 an article appeared in The Los Angeles Herald. Mae assured the paper that she wanted to satisfy the censors.
• • "You can never say," emphasized Mae West, "that I refused to meet somebody half way."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Frank Wallace, who says he is the husband of Hollywood movie star Mae West, sued her business manager James Timony and five John Does for $105,000 damages today. Mae West is unavailable for comment.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "A man in the house is worth two in the street."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Associated Press mentioned Mae West.
• • "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 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 pictures. ...
• • Both the Mae West "It Ain't No Sin" and the Miss Del Rio biographical picture were withdrawn from application for licensing in New York. The censors 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. ... The announcements came a few days after leaders of Catholic and Jewish faiths joined in a nationwide drive against indecent movies. ...
• • Source: AP; reprinted by Nevada State Journal; published on Thursday, 28 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 • •
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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.
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• • By the Numbers • •
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