MAE WEST came to the attention of Tinseltown ninety years ago in 1932. Step into the Time Machine with me for a long, leisurely ride. This is Part 15.
• • Mae West in Hollywood 1932 – 1943 • •
• • Mae West: Which is her best film? • •
• • Andy Goulding wrote: But is “She Done Him Wrong” West’s best film?
• • Andy Goulding wrote: There is much to admire here, from director Lowell Sherman’s evocative opening scenes of the Bowery of the 1890s to the handsome barroom setting.
• • Andy Goulding wrote: But it is, of course, Mae West who provides the bulk of the entertainment value.
• • Andy Goulding wrote: Icy cool but with a greater sense of human vulnerability layered in, West’s diamond-encrusted saloon singer Lou is a more well-rounded character than in “Night After Night” (1932) where Mae West played an entertaining but one-note Maudie Triplett, the bawdy ex-girlfriend of bootlegger Joe Anton (George Raft).
• • Mae West: Sex positivity and immortal one-liners • • …
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Blueprint Reviews U.K.; posted on Friday, 3 December 2021.
• • On Sunday, 30 September 1934 • •
• • Noted film critic Andre Sennwald wrote an article "Lines for a Mae West Scrapbook." It was published in The New York Times on Sunday, 30 September 1934.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Born in Philadelphia in September 1943, singer, dancer, and actress Toni Basil was part of the uncredited cast in "Myra Breckinridge" [1970]. Toni had a bit part as a cigarette girl wearing bright red ribbons. Did you spot her?
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I'm just as busy when I'm not making my latest motion picture in Hollywood."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Nation, a magazine, defended Mae West on Wednesday, 30 September 1931.
• • "In Defense of Mae West" • •
• • Their erudite columnist Joseph Wood Krutch appreciated Mae's "personality" and, though he felt her current Broadway play was "simple-minded, lurid, and crude," Krutch emphasized that it was better than many other plays "because it is at least not dull with that discouraging, anemic dullness characteristic of half the respectable plays produced on Broadway. It is dramatically as sound and intellectually as respectable as a play like Belasco's 'Lulu Belle' which ran for a year in one of our temples of art."
• • Joseph Wood Krutch concluded "if someone will arise to proclaim in appropriate style that 'they ain't done right by our Mae,' I, for one, will whistle and stamp my feet."
• • Joseph Wood Krutch applauded Mae West as an antidote to Mrs. Grundy and Anthony Comstock. …
• • Source: The Nation; published on Wednesday, 30 September 1931
• • 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 5,093rd 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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