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 34.
• • Mae West in Hollywood 1932 – 1943 • •
• • Mae West: “My Old Flame” and its pleasing simplicity • •
• • Andy Goulding wrote: And the film trusts in the strength of the soon-to-be-standard “My Old Flame” to present it with a pleasing simplicity.
• • Andy Goulding wrote: Still, the PCA weren’t going anywhere for a few decades and West’s career from hereon in would be coloured by uncharacteristic compromise.
• • Mae West: Her films followed a certain formula • • …
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Blueprint Reviews U.K.; posted on Friday, 3 December 2021.
• • On 2 November 1969 in The N.Y. Times • •
• • A lengthy article appeared in the Sunday magazine section of The N.Y. Times on 2 November 1969: "76 — — and Still Diamond Lil" written by Steven V. Roberts and punctuated with several photos of the Brooklyn Bombshell at various career points. The first portrait showed Mae costumed by Edith Head for her role as Leticia Van Allen.
• • From Hollywood, Steven V. Roberts wrote: "I hold records all over the world. That's my ego, breaking records. So don't say they put me in someone else's room."
• • Steven V. Roberts explained: Mae West was not happy. Her soft voice took on a tense shrillness as she continued. "I'd like to see someone break records like that and I'll respect them as a star. 'Til someone can do that, I feel I'm in a class by myself. The only other person I know who could write his own movies and star in them was Chaplin.”
• • Steven V. Roberts added: The tirade had been triggered by a casual remark that Miss West was getting Barbra Streisand's old dressing room at 20th Century-Fox during the production of "Myra Breckinridge," Gore Vidal's garden of sexual hybrids.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West's bawdy take-it-or-leave-it embrace of the double entendre sent the censors into a tizzy — — and it also has made Mae West a very rich woman in the process.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "My mother, I believe, realized that perhaps her new baby was really different from what could ordinarily be expected of a daughter. She was right; I was different. And to her I owe the opportunities that allowed me to start acting when most kids my age were still taking their meals out of a high-chair and the present crop of Hollywood darlings were being coddled."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A California paper mentioned Mae West.
• • But if your fat is your fortune, as in the case of Mae West, that’s a different story! ...
• • Source: Sausalito News; published on Friday, 2 November 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 5,100 blog posts.
Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started eighteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,112th 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.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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WOW! This blog is great! Mae West is a hero of mine! Thank You for keeping her memory alive!
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