MAE WEST was a soft touch for a hard luck story. Mae rarely discussed her generosity in an interview, however, which makes this seldom seen piece in Screenland worth reading. This is Part 18 of 18 segments, the finale.
• • Mae West’s Secret Self • •
• • Mae West: She didn’t like it. So she quit • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: And Mae West was getting a huge sum weekly for it, too.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: After the first night she quit. It was singing in a night club.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: She didn't like putting on her act for a lot of people, nearly all of whom were tight.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: That's a bad girl for you — a bold, bad girl. She started her career at the age of four, giving impersonations of well-known people of the day.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: She got her first job giving an imitation of Eva Tanguay, the once-famous "I don't care" vaudevillian, who has just recently had her eyesight restored — thanks to Mae West.
• • This has now been concluded with this post, the eighteenth segment.
• • Source: Screenland; issue dated for October 1933.
• • On Monday, 10 August 1936 • •
• • Production of "Klondike Annie" starring Mae West began on Monday, 10 August 1936 and was finished by September.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Bosomy actress Mae West and fan dancer Sally Rand have been invited to play Lady Godiva in Dubbo's Jubilee Week procession which will be held in October.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “I've always been two people. Most stars are just told what to think. But I told the director what to think."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A newspaper in Iowa mentioned Mae West.
• • We mentioned Mae West. "A lady who will tell anything, and does," said Mrs. Calhoun, adding, "Everything printed about her is censored by her studio. ...
• • Source: The Des Moines Register; published on Sunday, 30 May 1937
• • 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 • •
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• 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 5,056th blog
post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a
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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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