Mae West: $4 Million Inherited

MAE WEST enjoyed copious coverage in Time Magazine ― some of it positive such as her 1978 interview with Gerald Clarke. This is Part 4 of 15 segments.
• • "Show Business: At 84 Mae West Is Still Mae West" • •
• • Mae West: Two young producers with a $4 million inheritance • •  

• • Gerald Clarke wrote: “My Little Chickadee,” released in 1940, was her last major film.
• • Gerald Clarke wrote: Now, two young producers, who had not even heard of Mae West until a few years ago, have sunk $4 million of inherited money into a film that attempts to prove that Mae is right — that she really does look 22 — and that all the mirrors in the world are wrong.
• • Gerald Clarke wrote: The result, “Sextette,” is one of those movies rarely seen these days, a work so bad, so ferally innocent, that it is good, an instant classic to be treasured by connoisseurs of the genre everywhere.
• • Gerald Clarke wrote: It was released in Los Angeles in March but failed to win an audience.
• • Mae West: Promote it as "a high-camp movie for everyone." • • …   
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Time Magazine; issue dated for Monday, 22 May 1978.
• • On Sunday, 25 August 1912 in Brooklyn • •
• • Mae West was seen on the stage of the New Brighton Theatre in Brooklyn's Coney Island area on Sunday, 25 August 1912.
• • The New Brighton always booked top tier vaudeville acts.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West sued Hollywood Confidential Magazine for defamation and the trial began in early August 1957 in Los Angeles.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "There's a rumor going around that I broke my ankle stumbling over a pile of men."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article in a journal mentioned Mae West.
• • Dr. Jim Eckman wrote: Helen Gurley Brown, the “Cosmo Girl,” proudly displayed a Mae West quote in her office: “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”  ...
• • Source: Issues in Perspective; published on Saturday, 25 August 2012
• • 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 18th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past eighteen 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 eighteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,067th 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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