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 17.
• • Mae West in Hollywood 1932 – 1943 • •
• • Mae West: Her impeccably delivered quips • •
• • Andy Goulding wrote: Between those impeccably delivered quips and enjoyably bawdy musical numbers, “She Done Him Wrong” attempts to squeeze about two hours worth of plot into 66 minutes.
• • Note: “Diamond Lil,” Mae West’s 1928 stage melodrama, three hours long, is centered on sex trafficking and white slavery in the Bowery. Two South American procurers, Rita and Juarez, are in cahoots with Gus Jordan and a nefarious curio dealer Charlie Fong, who cages kidnapped victims in his basement until they are ready to be shipped.
• • Note: Paramount made no room for the main plot (white slavery on The Bowery) in the film version. Among Mae’s subplots is a steamy sexual affair between Juarez and Diamond Lil, which takes place in Frances's apartment on Elizabeth Street ― ― and also a chaste romance between Diamond Lil and a man disguised as a Salvation Army preacher. In reality, he is a G-man called “The Hawk,” on the premises to shut down the saloon and curio shop ― and arrest her.
• • Mae West: The 66-minute film goes to dark places • • …
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Blueprint Reviews U.K.; posted on Friday, 3 December 2021.
• • On Friday, 4 October 1918 • •
• • It was 104 years ago this October — — when 25-year-old Mae West was cast in a show produced by Arthur Hammerstein: "Sometime." Her character was Mayme Dean. Mae received top billing in the musical's review by The New York Times (published on Saturday, 5 October 1918).
• • This musical, which opened at the Shubert Theatre [225 West 44th Street, NYC] on 4 October 1918, closed in June 1919, after running for 283 performances.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Beverly West, her sister and her husband Vladimir Baikoff, will live with Miss West in the new place, which, by the way, afforded Mae opportunity to absorb rustic atmosphere for her next picture, "Go West Young Man."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "It was not that I was jaded. It was only that I had no answers to serious things."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Literary Digest discussed Mae West.
• • The New York Board of Censors insisted upon a new ending for the upcoming Mae West picture. Ruby Carter and the Tiger Kid have to head to the altar to satisfy the purity police and Paramount Pictures pays the fare to have the conclusion done over.
• • An article in Literary Digest discussed this, calling the forced ending "a sort of shotgun wedding." …
• • Source: Literary Digest; published on Saturday, 6 October 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 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 5,095th 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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