Mae West: Buy Me a Bridge

California fans of MAE WEST were delighted to see this on Thursday, 7 April 1938.
• • Madera Theatre: Mae West on Same Program • •
• • "Venez me voir, comme ci, comme ca, quelque fois.”
• • In English it’s just plain, “Come up and see me some time,” but in her latest picture, “Every Day’s a Holiday," Mae West is Mademoiselle Fifi, an importation fresh from the music halls of Paris who sweeps New York off its feet.
• • Mae this time is a dark-haired belle of La Belle France, speaking the language of the Boulevardiers, doing a scene from "Camille” after the manner of the divine Sarah Bernhardt, representing the land of the Arc de Triomphe, Lafayette, the Champs Elysees, and the Popular Front! But Fifi is only a disguise for Mae, the toast of the Bowery, whose habit of selling the Brooklyn Bridge brings her into conflict with the New York police.
• • Source: Review in Madera Daily Tribune; published on Thursday, 7 April 1938.  
• • On Sunday, 7 April 1940 • •
• • On Sunday, 7 April 1940 the San Bernardino Sun announced that the new film "My Little Chickadee" starring Mae West and W.C. Fields would be in the local cinema on Sunday and Monday.
• • On Wednesday, 7 April 1954 in Variety • •
• • The death of James Timony [on 5 April 1954] was announced in The L.A. Times on April 6th and in Variety on April 7th. Mae was prostrated by grief at the death of her long-term companion and very shrewd manager. She was unable to receive callers and dealt with his funeral arrangements. Jim Timony's body was sent back to Brooklyn, New York and buried in a family plot at Holy Cross cemetery.
• • On Wednesday, 7 April 1976 • •
• • Dorothy Manners wrote:  As usual when she appears, Mae West, in virginal white, her long blonde hair hanging shoulder length, stopped the action at the cocktail party hosted by producer Ross Hunter and Jacque Mapes at Ross's home.  Her amusing feature, filled with details, was part of her syndicated column, circulated on Wednesday, 7 April 1976.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Strip-cropping has nothing to do with Sally Rand, nor does contour farming have any relation to the shape of Mae West.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "A man's kiss is his signature."
• • Quote, Unquote • •

• • An Indiana paper mentioned Mae West.
• • Attend The Midnight Show Tonight at 11:30 when Mae West goes North and Alaska goes West! Co-starring Victor McLaglen. Paramount Pictures.  Mae Sings 3 New Songs! . . .
• • Source: Item in The Daily Banner (Indiana); published on Tuesday, 7 April 1936
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 11th anniversary • •
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past eleven years. The other day we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 3,400 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • • 
• • The Mae West Blog was started ten years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3415th 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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Mae West: North to Alaska

Released on 21 February 1936 was MAE WEST's motion picture "Klondike Annie."
• • In his "All Movie Guide," Paul Brenner observed: Mae West butts heads with Victor McLaglen in Raoul Walsh's "Klondike Annie." But the real victor was the Legion of Decency, whose censorship strictures transformed a saucy and spicy gumbo into something closer to chicken noodle soup. West plays Rose Carlton, the kept woman of Chan Lo (Harold Huber), who takes her from walking the streets to pacing the floors of her high rent apartment. Rose ends up killing Chan and beats it from San Francisco to the frozen north. She boards a ship where burly sea captain Bull Brackett (McLaglen) takes a shine to her. When he finds out she killed Chan, he blackmails her into coming up and seeing him sometime. Boarding the ship in Seattle is missionary Annie Alden (Helen Jerome Eddy), who dies on the way to Alaska. Rose assumes Annie's identity and, upon arrival in Alaska proceeds to preach the Good Book, saving sinners by unorthodox methods. Mountie Jack Forrest (Philip Reed) arrives in town searching for Chan's murderer and he falls in love with Rose, unaware that the woman he loves is the killer he seeks.
• • Native New Yorker Raoul Walsh [11 March 1887 — 31 December 1980] directed.
• • This project also happened to be a reunion between Victor McLaglan and Walsh, the director who guided him to stardom in the silent war drama, "What Price Glory?" (Fox, 1926), and two of its three sequels.
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