Mae West: Forgotten?

According to Playbill, MAE WEST’s playwriting has been “forgotten.” Do you agree? We do not.
• • 7 Forgotten Female Playwrights from Eras Past With Lots to Say • •
• • Meet a few of history's playwrights who questioned their place in the world (and the men who were running it.) • •
• • Mae West: “Sex” (1926) • •
• • Protagonist Margy LaMont talking to antagonist and “dirty charity” Clara: “Say, you’ve got a nerve putting yourself on a pedestal above me. The things I’ve done, I had to do for a living. I know it was wrong. I’m not trying to alibi myself. But you’ve done those same things for other reasons.”

• • Playbill’s Leah Putnam wrote: A silver screen icon, Mae West wrote a few plays, including “Sex” which landed her in jail for eight days as religious groups protested the show (sic). The play, which also starred West [as Margy LaMont], follows a cast of prostitutes trying to better their lives.
• • Note: It was Mae’s efforts to launch “The Drag,” her new homosexual play, that brought City Hall’s guillotine down on her.
• • Playbill’s Leah Putnam wrote: It opened April 26, 1926 to a commercially successful Broadway run of 375 performances and played to over 325,000 audience members before it was shut down for obscenity in February 1927.
• • Playbill’s Leah Putnam wrote: Mae West wrote the controversial work under the pen name Jane Mast.
• • Source: Playbill; published on Wednesday, 20 April 2022.
• • On Wednesday, 12 May 1971 • •
• • On Wednesday, 12 May 1971 Mae West, UCLA’s Woman of the Century, spoke to students after a screening of her 1933 classic movie “I’m No Angel.”
• • On Tuesday, 12 May 1998 • •
• • The record album "Mae Day: Masquers Club Salutes Mae West" was released on Tuesday, 12 May 1998 on the label Bacchus. The original recording date was on Saturday, 14 April 1973.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West won't have to worry about getting a job now: she's formed her own movie production company. Mae West Empire Pictures Co., James Timony, Mae's business manager said today, was incorporated at Sacramento, the state capitol, with Louis R. Lurie of Sacramento, as president. Mae is a vice president of the $5,000,000 corporation.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Well, they've sued me for everything else."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The foreign fashion press mentioned Mae West in May.
• • "London Says Mae West Curves Are Fashion's Whims" • •
• • Writing from London, Nell Murray wrote: Just to demonstrate that there must be some truth in the announcement from America that the female form divine for 1934 would weigh at least 12 pounds heavier than it did last year (in order to accommodate the threatened Mae West curves), a London dress designer took note ...
• • Source: Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Queensland); published on Sunday, 6 May 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 17th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past seventeen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,900 blog posts. Wow! 
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• • The Mae West Blog was started seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,992nd 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: Margy LaMont's Last

It was late on Saturday night, 19 March 1927 when the Broadway play "Sex," written by and starring MAE WEST as Margy LaMont, voluntarily closed. The newspapers reported: ". . . warrants were served on the cast and owners for staging an obscene show."
• • Several New Yorkers had seen "Sex" more than once — — including Sergeant Patrick Keneally, who had taken an exhaustive number of notes while attending three performances at Daly's 63rd Street Theatre in the line of duty.
• • Police action against "Sex" had been more in opposition to "The Drag" than to Margy LaMont's lascivious adventures, explains Jill Watts in her impeccably researched bio: "Mae West: An Icon in Black and White."
• • According to Jill Watts: While efforts to mothball "The Drag" succeeded, "Sex" played to capacity crowds for several more weeks. However, by the beginning of March [1927], attendance had died off and profits shrank. Desperate to keep the production alive, the Moral Production Corporation ordered a 25% pay cut for everyone. Several players handed in their notices.
• • Finally, on Saturday, 19 March 1927, after the evening's performance had ended, C. William Morganstern announced that Mae West was physically exhausted and was closing the play. Yet he also emphasized her determination to fight the case to its end.
• • The play "Courting Mae West" dramatizes this turmoil and legal wrangling, based on true events in Mae's life and career from 1926 — 1932.
• • Jack Bonavita [1866 — 19 March 1917] • •
• • For years, Mae talked about, and thought about, the impression Bostock's lions left on her when she saw them at Dreamland. The lead lion tamer was the dashing Captain Jack Bonavita. Born in Philadelphia in 1866, his muscular frame and courage — — not to mention his sleek military garb, knee-high boots, and sinister moustache — — made him popular with the ladies. Actress Marie Dressler, then working a concession at Coney Island, caught Jack Bonavita's act as often as she could. And it was an unparalleled performance that the 38-year-old trainer gave with his 26 trained lions. Stupendous.
• • Mae's fixation on Jack Bonavita and Bostock's lions inspired her to do "I'm No Angel," in which she fulfilled a lifelong dream of being inside the cage with the king of beasts. Born under the sun sign Leo, Mae felt destined for this — — and she insisted on performing her own stunts. The film begins with Mae riding an elephant in a tight white jumpsuit. How many other 41-year-old actresses are eager to take risks like that?
• • Unfortunately, Dreamland burned to the ground on May 1911.
• • Frank Bostock died, after a bout with influenza, in October 1912.
• • From 1913 — 1917 Jack Bonavita focused on filmmaking, working as a stunt man, a director, and an actor. His silent films always co-starred wild animals and some of the lion or jaguar tamers he had worked with at Bostock's Circus. A few flickers he starred in were: "Avenged by Lions" [1916] and "The Woman, the Lion, and the Man" [1915].
• • Mae's hero Jack Bonavita died in Los Angeles, California from a polar bear attack in the month of March — — on Saturday, 19 March 1917. He was 51.
• • On Thursday, 19 March 1914 • •
• • An item mentioning accordionist Guido Deiro's relationship with a 20-year-old Mae West was printed in The Columbus Ledger on Thursday, 19 March 1914. The Ohio based staff writer explained: “If memory serves, Miss West introduced Deiro, who was visiting here that week, as her fiancé, ‘Count Guido,’ Guido being his first name. It is refreshing to find that 'he ain’t no such animal' (as Mae seems to have clarified in her quaint Brooklynese).”
• • On Saturday, 19 March 1927 • •
• • Mae West signed the "Sex" checks. Three promissory notes dated for Saturday, 19 March 1927 from the Moral Producing Corporation, $1000 each to Harold Spielberg, signed on the verso in original ink "Mae West" together with a check drawn on the Bowery and East River National Bank, dated 2 March 1927, signed by Mae West as President of the Moral Producing Corporation.
• • Sold in 1994 by the NYC auction house Christies. The sale was "Film and Television Memorabilia" and Mae's items were Lot 65.
• • On Monday, 19 March 1934 in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West's motion picture, with a working title of "It Ain't No Sin," began production in mid-March — — on Monday, 19 March 1934. In the script, Ruby Carter, the American beauty queen of the night club and sporting world set, shifts her operations from St. Louis to New Orleans.
• • From "Belle of the Nineties" [1934] • •
• • • • Ace Lamont: Great town, St. Louis. You were born here?
• • • • Ruby Carter: Yes.
• • • • Ace Lamont: What part?
• • • • Ruby Carter: Why, all of me.
• • According to the venerable Hollywood publicist A.C. Lyles, attached for decades to Paramount Pictures, some press agents, who were assigned to promote Mae West’s next picture "It Ain't No Sin," bought 50 parrots and had the macaws trained to utter the film’s title. The intention was to ship one parrot to every notable movie columnist across the world. The entertainment editor, presumably, would unwrap the cage and immediately hear the parrot plug the film. Unfortunately, one month before the publicity department prepared to give the trained featherweights a send-off, Paramount's front office cabled that they were changing the title of the 1934 movie to "Belle of the Nineties," thanks to Will Hays.
• • "Belle of the Nineties" was in production from 19 March 1934 until June 1934.
• • On Wednesday, 19 March 1986 in The L.A. Times • •
• • Obituary: Stanley Musgrove, 61; TV Producer, Writer
• • Stanley E. Musgrove, for 20 years president of the Friends of the USC Libraries, a support group for the 16 libraries at the university, died Thursday (on 13 March 1986) of cancer at a Mission Hills Hospital. He was 61.
• • The producer and writer, who graduated from USC's School of Cinema-Television in 1947, was responsible for dinners honoring such entertainment celebrities as Cole Porter, George Cukor, Moss Hart, and Louis Armstrong. He also was publicist for Mae West, Cole Porter, and Guy Madison and at his death was preparing to produce a television film of a book on Miss West that he co-authored. [Source: The L.A. Times on 19 March 1986]• • Stanley E. Musgrove was quick to say he was not Mae's agent, but he was [or became] her publicist. He often "ran interference" for the star, screening her visitors, as well as autograph-hunters or admirers who were after her picture. Musgrove came to know many Hollywood personalities, from actors to directors. He collaborated with George Eells on Mae West: A Biography [NY: William Morrow, 1982].
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "My play 'Sex" was a work of art."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article about Queen Latifah mentioned Mae West.
• • Linda Mizejewski wrote: As this suggests, the performance is not simply tough chick but tough chick from the 'hood, and here the class and racial issues overlapping with Mae West more pointedly delineate the female bodies excluded from romantic comedy. Mae West's success as a 1930s sex symbol was highly racialized, as Wojcik has shown, particularly in her screen relationships with subordinate black female characters. These relationships constructed, through contrast, "West's glowing whiteness" (290), but the films also emphasized West's intimacy and identification with these women as winking co-conspirators about sex with men, and also as possible lesbian interests. This association, claims Wojcik, constructed West's sexuality as working-class, an effect intensified by her appropriation of a "dirty blues" singing style that in the 1930s was associated with lower-class black culture (291-92). . . .
• • Source: Review: "Queen Latifah, Unruly Women, and the Bodies of Romantic Comedy" written by Linda Mizejewski for Genders Magazine; published in Issue 46, 2007• • By the Numbers • •
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Mae West: Morgan Wallace

Morgan Wallace got to work in two motion pictures starring MAE WEST.
• • Born in Lompoc, California, Morgan Wallace [26 July 1881 — 12 December 1953] appeared in 124 films between 1914 — 1946 often in authority roles such as in "Blonde Venus" [1932} with Marlene Dietrich, when he was cast as a doctor. He was briefly seen as J. Henry Brash in "Goin' to Town" [1935] and also as a gambler in "My Little Chickadee" [1940]. Not merely a bit parts player, he also snagged several meatier assignments during the casting.
• • Like Mae, Morgan Wallace was known for his work on Broadway, where he was active from 1904 — 1946. One play he wrote, "Congratulations," was onstage in 1929.
• • Morgan Wallace, a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild, died in Tarzana, California in the month of December — — on 12 December 1953. He was 72 years old.
• • In December, Remember Mae on NBC [12 December 1937] • •
• • Perhaps no other radio segment of The Chase and Sanborn Hour has sparked more commentary than the Sunday December 12th, 1937 broadcast starring Mae West, the 44-year-old movie queen, who usually hid the fact that she could not read a script without eyeglasses.
• • The popular star of Paramount Pictures rarely appeared on radio. When she did, the sole purpose was to promote one of her films. West had guest-starred on The Shell Chateau with Al Jolson in 1936 and also Louella Parsons’ blackmailing program Hollywood Hotel on 26 April 1935, with featured guest Paul Cavanagh in an adaptation of her (then most current) screen gem: "Goin’ to Town."
• • Additionally, on 21 February 1934, the famed Mae West Jewel Robbery was dramatized on "Calling All Cars" over CBS Radio [without her personal participation in this traumatic drama].
• • When the producers of The Chase and Sanborn Hour offered the sex goddess the opportunity to appear on the weekly show — — then currently the highest-rated program of the year — — she accepted the invitation to boost the awareness of her latest film, "Every Day's a Holiday."
• • Mae West often wrote her own scripts and even produced her own plays, so she offered NBC the option of a sneak peek at some scenes from her new screen comedy set during the 1890s in New York City.
• • Interesting, but rarely commented on, is the fact that Mae wore a spectacular black gown framed by expensive furs and jewelry when she showed up at NBC's Hollywood headquarters on Sunday, 12 December 1937 — — an eyeful that could only be appreciated by the live studio audience.
• • As if to be extra-cautious, Mae donned eyeglasses and also wore a fancy lornette on a chain around her neck, not unlike the extra-careful gentleman who wears suspenders and a belt. Then she stepped up to the microphone and threw caution to the fates.
• • Skit writer Arch Obler on Mae's nearsightedness in December 1937 • •
• • "Now one thing the powers-that-be forgot," recalled Arch Oboler, "that in those days, unlike today, there were three things that an actress could not do. One was to have a child out of wedlock. Two, she could not swear. And three, she could not wear glasses. It was thought terrible for an actress to be seen in spectacles. Well, Miss Mae West, having all the usual good sense of all of us, did not wear her glasses during the rehearsals so she, being very nearsighted never saw my script. She bluffed her way through. It wasn’t until air time that she walked on stage waving these glasses, put them on . . . and for the first time saw the script. The result was a disaster. What she did to ‘Adam and Eve’ the Arabs had never done so miserably."
• • In December, Let's Remember Owen Moore [1886 — 1939] • •
• • Born in Fordstown Crossroads, County Meath, Ireland in December, Owen Moore [12 December 1886 — 9 June 1939] portrayed Chick Clark, Mae West's imprisoned ex-boyfriend in "She Done Him Wrong." The novel Diamond Lil opens with the prison inmate on page 1, chafing at Lil from behind bars, angry that she done him dirt.
• • An Irish silent film star, Owen Moore wed 19-year-old Mary Pickford [8 April 1892 — 29 May 1979] on 7 January 1911. The marriage was stormy due to Moore's drinking problem and they divorced in March 1920; she gave Owen Moore $100,000 to go along with their quickie Nevada divorce scheme. A few days later, Mary wed her dashing lover and colleague Douglas Fairbanks.
• • A long-term alcoholic, Owen Moore died in Beverly Hills, California from a heart attack at the age of 52 — — and was interred in the Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California.
• • On Sunday, 12 December 1997 in Pittsburgh • •
• • Biographer Emily Wortis Leider was at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, PA on 12 December 1997 at 7:00pm. The organizers noted: "The author of the acclaimed new biography of Mae West, Leider introduces West’s film, "She Done Him Wrong."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success — — the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights . . . into that big black space where the audience is."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • From an article by James D. Watts Jr. on the play "Sex" written by Mae West.
• • James D. Watts Jr., World Scene Writer, wrote: Putting on a play written by Mae West and titled "Sex" might not strike the average person as typical theatrical fare for the holiday season. But actress Sara Wilemon would politely beg to differ.
• • "One of the things about this time of year is that it's seen as a time of renewal, of regeneration," she said. "And that's one of the main themes of this show. The main character is someone who is determined to follow the path that is best for her, who isn't going to make herself over according to the demands of society. "And besides," Wilemon said, smiling, "isn't sex really the gift that keeps on giving?"
• • It's a crack that might be worthy of one of Mae West's own saucy quips. And it points out that there is a lot of humor in this 1926 play that the Nightingale Theater opened Friday. "Sex" was first presented in Tulsa in 2003, in a production by TheatreClub at the Nightingale. Most of the cast are new to the play; only Wilemon, director John Cruncleton and actor Craig Walters were in the original show.
• • For Wilemon, this production offers her a relatively unusual opportunity of returning to a role. She had never acted in a play before auditioning for the role of Margy LaMont, the part West played when the show premiered. Margy is a working-class prostitute determined to find a way to better her lot in life. As her adventures take her from Canada to the Caribbean to Connecticut, she mingles with all levels of society, from low-life gangsters to rich men's wives. In the process, she discovers that using one's sexuality as a means of commerce is not limited to the women who walk the streets.
• • "This was the play that really got Mae West noticed," Wilemon said. "It had been running for a year when it was raided by the police and she ended up going to jail for a few days on an indecency charge — — which just made it more of a success. And because Mae West wrote for this persona she had created," she said, "there isn't a lot variation in this character. That's one of the things that has been fun about revisiting this play — — discovering that maybe there are some different layers to this woman underneath that hard-shell exterior." ...
• • Source: Article: "In a Mae West sort of way, 'Sex' fits the holidays" written by James D. Watts Jr., World Scene Writer for Tulsa World; posted on 10 December 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2143rd 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: Tulsa Has Sex

MAE WEST wrote "Sex" and brought it to Broadway in 1926 and, for the first time, sin became a domestic product. There have been several revivals of this stage play and now it's Tulsa turn to have "Sex." Here is a lengthy excerpt written by Oklahoma reporter Brad Morris, who interviewed the leading lady and the artistic director.
• • Tulsa drama critic Brad Morris writes: Artistic Director John Cruncleton has produced the play "Sex" once before in 2003, but this time he brings it to the Nightingale stage. . . . But Cruncleton maintains that the show is relevant, though with its share of quaintness. "It's a fairly pedestrian script in a lot of ways," he said. "It's melodrama and conventional in a lot of ways. But where it rises above that, I think, is in this characterization of the lead role which Mae West wrote for herself."
• • Mae West seems to have been a forerunner of the empowerment of women — — celebrities in particular — — and "Sex" bears that out. "It's sort of a distillation of her worldview, or the one she was tapping into. She was embodying one element of the times. It had a lot to do with female independence — — taking control of one's sexuality for one's own purposes," Cruncleton said. "That maneuver is smart. You see a lot of pop stars doing that."
• • Digging a little deeper into West and the production of her work here in town reveals some surprises -- perhaps first and foremost that she was writing plays about sex and drag queens, and quite a few ideas and issues that are a bit controversial even today, depending on to whom you're speaking. So many of us perceive West as the bombshell from a more apple-cheeked era -- one where her "Come up and see me sometime" catchphrase actually meant, "Come up and see me sometime," rather than, "Let's have sex."
• • Sara Wilemon, who plays Margy LaMont, the Mae West character, said that West was trying to bring out societal elements that we, even today, tend to try to ignore, hoping they'll go away, or at least not bother us. "She was bringing this sort of — — well, I don't want to say, 'seedy underbelly,' but ..." Wilemon trails off. "It's not conventional work. At the time, she was talking about drag queens and talking about prostitutes and sex and these things that weren't being put on stage. For me, I feel like that's what Nightingale does."
• • And she's right. Not that the Nightingale promotes prostitution. But the theater (and its resident troupe) does things a little differently. ...
• • Again, though, Cruncleton referred to Mae West's delivery and writing style. While she wrote about criminals and sexual escapades, she wasn't doing so in a way so as to flaunt it, nor was she defiantly shoving anything into her audiences' throats. "Depicting the underclass and the criminal world — — she's certainly not the first writer to do that on American stage, but she did it in a fun way," Cruncleton said. "It's social commentary, but it's got all the spice of comedy, and that makes it easier to go back to that than some of the more earnest work of the time."
• • The play was a self-conceived and self-powered star vehicle for West, and things in the 1920s were pretty much the same as they are today in terms of sex and sensationalism selling tickets. But in order for that to work, there has to be a formidable force in the driver's seat. In describing that force present in the Nightingale's production, Cruncleton has high praise for Wilemon.
• • Margy LaMont does a fan dance in "Sex" in Tulsa • •
• • "If you don't have an actress that is going to go out there and project a star persona, there's really no point in doing it," he said. "We happen to have the queen of Kansas City burlesque available to perform in this." Wilemon has performed burlesque for several years, perfecting a sexy-as-hell fan dance that ends up making an appearance in Sex. Fan dance? Burlesque? Sexy? Really? Yes, really. And one look at Wilemon reveals all you need to know about her, at least in terms of seeing the show: she's a bombshell in her own right, and there's really no other way to put it.
• • As if on cue, and to ensure that she is not perceived as a flighty exhibitionist with no real brains, Wilemon dropped some knowledge: "This show started reviving in the 1990s in New York, and drag queens were playing this lead role. And there was the language. It's not really a barrier, but when West was talking about 'straight,' it meant 'legit.' When a drag queen says it, it ends up being a wink at the audience."
• • And then there's the prostitution that keeps sneaking into West's work. "She kind of pokes at society, comparing prostitutes to these women who are marrying for money," Wilemon said. "And is there a difference between those two?" . . .
• • Source: Article: "Sexual Satisfaction: Early twentieth-century 'Sex' teaches modern lessons" written by Brad Morris for Urban Tulsa Weekly; published on 7 December 2011
• • WHERE: Nightingale Theatre, 1416 E. Fourth Street [just East of Peoria on 4th St.]. Tulsa, OK.; T. (918) 633-8666. No credit cards, so please bring cash.
• • WHEN: 8pm premiere on Friday, 9 December 2011 [runs until December 17th]
• • EMAIL: info (at) nightingaletheater (dot) com
• • Tell them you heard about it on the Mae West Blog.
• • In December, Let's Remember Beverly West [1898 — 1982] • •
• • Born in Brooklyn, NY was Mildred Katherine West [8 December 1898 — 12 March 1982].
• • Mae's kid sister never liked her birthname and so, upon launching a professional career, she became "Beverly Osborne." A talented performer in her own right, she is commemorated with great affection on her birthday.
• • In December 1975 • •
• • An intriguing interview with Mae West appeared in the December 1975 issue of Oui Magazine. Lawrence Grobel sat down with the icon in Hollywood.
• • On 8 December 2011 in NYC • •
• • "I'm No Angel" [1933], starring Mae West and featuring Cary Grant (as the leading man again), will be shown at the Clearview Chelsea Cinemas, where it is an entry in its weekly Chelsea Classics. Notable NYC drag queen Hedda Lettuce will host the screening.
• • WHERE: Clearview Chelsea, 260 West 23rd Street, NYC; T. 212-777-3456.
• • WHEN: Thursday, 8 December 2011 at these showtimes: 7:00pm and 9:30pm.
• • Tell Hedda Lettuce you heard about it on the Mae West Blog.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I'd rather be looked over than overlooked."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on a sexy actress in India mentioned Mae West.
• • According to reporter Pratish Narayana: Vidya Balan is terrific as Silk, who fires brazen zingers throughout “The Dirty Picture” with chutzpah that would have made 1930s Hollywood temptress Mae West proud.
• • Pratish Narayana explains: The Bollywood movie is ostensibly based on the life of “Silk” Smitha, a southern Indian femme fatale who gained notoriety in the late 1980s playing sexually charged roles in otherwise conservative films featuring virginal heroines. ...
• • Source: Review: "Bollywood’s ‘Dirty Picture’ Evokes Seductress Mae West" written by Pratish Narayana for Bloomberg News; published on 7 December 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2139th 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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