Mae West: Odd Couple Act

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 7.
• • Mae West in Hollywood 1932 – 1943 • •
• • Mae West: The scene-stealing Maudie Triplett • •
• • Andy Goulding wrote: Hollywood stalwart Leo Karns is fun as Joe’s devoted companion Leo and Wynne Gibson is memorably edgy as the jealous Iris.
• • The Odd Couple Act • •

• • Andy Goulding wrote: But “Night After Night” really belongs to two performers.
• • Andy Goulding wrote: Mae West, of course, as the boisterous Maudie Triplett, an ex-girlfriend of Joe Anton, and Alison Skipworth as Mabel Jellyman, a repressed older woman whose simmering potential is unlocked by an unlikely friendship with Maudie.
• • Note: And don't forget they've been drinking all night, presumably for free, as the guest of Joe Anton (George Raft), a bootlegger turned high-end speakeasy owner.

• • Andy Goulding wrote: In their clamour to hand the film lock, stock, and barrel to the scene-stealing Mae West, many movie critics have overlooked that Mae is, in fact, working here as half of a very effective odd-couple double act with the fantastic Alison Skipworth, whose demure eloquence (as a plain-faced matron who is on duty here as Joe's tactful deportment coach) beautifully offsets Mae West’s streetwise colloquialisms.
• • Mae West: Skipworth’s character thinks she is a prostitute • • …
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Blueprint Reviews U.K.; posted on Friday, 3 December 2021.
• • On Friday, 20 September 1940 • •
• • The New Zealand Movie Editors wrote: At the Grand Theatre — "My Little Chickadee" — Mae's back in a lusty farce of the frontier days in the bad old West!
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Michael Sarne was writing a lot to Mae West during the autumn of 1969 as he developed the cinema version of "Myra Breckinridge." He promised that he was giving more thought to other ways to involve her character, Leticia Van Allen, in the central plot.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I get my satisfaction from  handing others an hour of entertainment, of putting 'em out of what's bothering 'em, and in handing 'em a personally prepared motion picture."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article about upcoming shows on TV mentioned Mae West.
• • "TV News Shorts" • •
• • TV Guide wrote: Hollywood — 13 September 1958. Mae West, now 66, will soon star in a five-a-week, late-night, quarter-hour show locally, then has plans for a film series, "Klondike Lou."  ...
• • Source: TV Guide; published on Saturday, 13 September 1958
• • 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 5,085th 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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