Mae West: Ensemble Farce

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 47 of 68.
• • Mae West in Hollywood 1932 – 1943 • •
• • Mae West: The main attraction • •
• • Andy Goulding wrote: The main attraction of Mae West films had always been Mae West.

• • Andy Goulding wrote: This story of a movie star who becomes stranded in a small town boarding house leans more towards an ensemble farce and West feels a little lost amongst a strong cast struggling with bland material.
• • Andy Goulding wrote: As with “Klondike Annie,” Mae West gives a deliberately more subdued performance here, her lusty excesses reigned in (if still very much pivotal to the plot) and her one-liners traded for light character comedy.
• • Andy Goulding wrote: For the first time ever, a co-star is allowed to steal the film, with Isabel Jewell’s starstruck, Garbo-impersonating maid getting what few big laughs there are.
• • Mae West: Attempts to seduce • • …
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Blueprint Reviews U.K.; posted on Friday, 3 December 2021.
• • On Monday, 28 November 1932 • •
• • At the MPPDA board meeting on Monday, 28 November 1932, Adolph Zukor made promises to Will Hays that only "suitable material" would find its way into the script and the "Diamond Lil" title was already gone.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •

• • Mae West and diamonds were almost synonymous even before the creation of her most memorable character: Diamond Lil.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Everyone said I had to get thin. I figured they knew this racket and I didn’t, so I went on one of them Hollywood diets.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on Cary Grant mentioned Mae West.
• • "My Favorite Star" • •
• • Peter Bogdanovich wrote: Another big thing was gleaned from his successful experience on two pictures playing the love interest to Mae West. In both She Done Him Wrong (1932) [sic] and in I’m No Angel (1933), Cary is the object of Mae’s affections and desires. She pursues him, rather than the other way around. Indeed, she makes one of the screen’s most famous (and most misquoted) invitations to Grant in their first scene together: “Why don’t cha come up sometime, an’ see me?”
• • Peter Bogdanovich wrote: Cary Grant’s a minister [sic], and says he hasn’t the time. She responds, “Say, what’re you tryin’ to do, insult me?!”
• • Peter Bogdanovich wrote: What Cary took home was that it’s better to be wanted than to want, and once he established himself as a star in 1937, it never was otherwise. ...
• • Article (with errors) for The New York Observer; published on Tuesday, 25 November 2008
• • 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 5,100 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started eighteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,126th 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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