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In 1934, MAE WEST appeared in Great Britain in the center of a political cartoon drawn by Sir David Alexander Cecil Low [7 April 1891 — 19 September 1963]. So did Swedish actress Greta Garbo [18 September 1905 — 15 April 1990], who purrs, "Ah tank I loaf you, Meester Stalin!" And that's Marlene Dietrich on the right.
• • Since this is the anniversary of the October Revolution, commonly referred to as Red October or the October Uprising of 1917, we thought you'd enjoy this drawing today.
• • "A consignment of culture to the Barbarians" • •
• • The left-wing British editors wrote this cartoon caption: The Russian people on the left, ogling glamorous Hollywood filmstars, while a statue of Karl Marx gazes doubtfully down upon a Mae West look-alike, who is purring "Come up and see me sometime." In the foreground, a nervous Stalin is being embraced by another star. [The journalist failed to identify Miss Garbo.]
• • The Evening Standard explained: One result of the agreement between Washington and Moscow is that Hollywood is to export films to Russia.
• • Source: cartoon in The Evening Standard [U.K.]; published in 1934.
• • On Friday, 24 October 1919 • •
• • In the write-up of Ned Wayburn's "Demi-Tasse Revue" at the Capitol Theatre (a movie house on Broadway with a wide stage for vaudeville acts), Variety mentioned Mae West on 31 October 1919, noting that she "also scored as a single with a burlesque 'shimmy' number."
• • On Friday, 24 October 1919 Mae West also sang "Oh, What a Moanin' Man."
• • On Tuesday, 24 October 1933 • •
• • Variety couldn't stop printing articles about "I'm No Angel" starring Mae West. "Mae West Opera Wows Newark — Cops House Record, $28,000, and Held Over" ran in Variety's issue dated for Tuesday, 24 October 1933.
• • On Wednesday, 24 October 1934 • •
• • A review of "Belle of the Nineties" penned by Otis Ferguson [1907 — 1943] was published on Wednesday, 24 October 1934.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Film critics are predicting that you will see another new and sensational star — — none other than Mae West, the "Diamond Lil" of Broadway.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "When you tell people a play is naughty, they rush to see it. I can't help that, can I?"
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • "Do Actors Enjoy Those Screen Kisses? Mae West Does, Bing Crosby Doesn't" • •
• • "You've gotta have romance, and what's romance without some kissing?" Mae West asks. "And unless kissing is real, it doesn't look real. When I kiss 'em, I give 'em something to talk about." . . .
• • Source: The Milwaukee Journal; published on Sunday, 12 January 1936
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• • The Mae West Blog was started ten years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3033rd blog post.
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Oscar Levant's scatological comments and controversial wisecracks about MAE WEST's sex life got his talk show cancelled for good in 1960. Unrestrained witticisms had gotten him in trouble before on the air, therefore, the network decided to add a safety net by taping the syndicated "Oscar Levant Show," to enable the engineers to weed out the outrageous. Probably aware that his shocking off-the-cuff opinions were the very reason viewers tuned in from 1958 — 1960 to his 10 PM program, Oscar continued to riff on Mae's enema habits or speculate on her lovers and her bi-racial open-door policy.
• • One individual claimed to recall a few of Oscar's offensive one-liners: "Now that Marilyn Monroe has converted to Judaism, Arthur Miller can eat her!"; "Zsa Zsa Gabor is busy again, doing social work among the rich!"; and "Mae West, of course, is a pro's pro. Mae would never give it away!" — — and one final crack about Mae's bed partners got the TV executives to pull the plug.
• • Born into a musical and Orthodox Jewish Russian family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the month of December — — on 27 December 1906 — — Oscar Levant moved to New York with his mother, Annie, in 1922 after the death of his father, Max. Oscar Levant gained fame as an American pianist, composer, author, humorist, and actor. He was equally known for his mordant character, off-color observations, and unpredictable digs on the air as for his music. Frequently institutionalized by his wife June, Levant had the knack of making an audience laugh and feel very uncomfortable at the same time.
• • A fatal heart attack stilled the voice of Oscar Levant. He died in Beverly Hills, California on 14 August 1972, and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. He was 65.
• • In December, Let's Remember Louis Bromfield [1896 — 1956] • • 
• • Born Lewis Brumfield in Ohio in the month of December — — on 27 December 1896 — — the 6' 2" inch journalist won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Early Autumn [1926], and then turned to writing fulltime. His short story "Single Night" (set in Larry Fay's Napoleon Club) became the backbone of the Paramount film "Night After Night" [released on 30 October 1932]. Two months after the film was distributed to moviehouses across the country, bootlegger Larry Fay met a spectacularly crimson-soaked death inside the Napoleon Club, 33 West 56th Street, on 1 January 1933.
• • Author and farmer Louis Bromfield had a more serene death, at age 60, on 18 March 1956.• • In December, Let's Remember Sam Coslow [1902 — 1982] • •
• • Born in Mae's hometown, New York City, Sam Coslow was born in December — — on 27 December 1902. He attended Erasmus Hall High School and he was still in his teens when he began writing songs. For instance, "My Old Flame" was written in 1934, with Arthur Johnston, for the Mae West film "Belle of the Nineties." His music made it into many Hollywood movies.
• • The composer died in New York, NY on 2 April 1982.
• • In December, Let's Remember Marlene Dietrich [1901 — 1992] • •
• • When Mae West was starring in "My Little Chickadee," a comedy set in the old West, Universal Pictures was also producing a Western-themed musical comedy "Destry Rides Again" [which debuted in New York on 30 November 1939]. Though the title would seem to be weighted in the direction of two actors — — James Stewart in the title role as Tom Destry, Jr. and Charles Winninger as his deputy Washington Dimsdale — — Dietrich owns the movie. This vehicle became a career reviving performance for the fishnet stockinged bar singer Frenchie, sexy and memorable despite wearing a truly hideous wig.
• • Born in Germany in the month of December — — on 27 December 1901 — — Marlene Dietrich was an actress and a singer who knew Mae West when they were both stars at Paramount Pictures.
• • The screen queens were photographed on the set of "My Little Chickadee" in 1939. Dietrich was posing in her Frenchie costume and Mae was made up as Flower Belle Lee.
• • Marlene Dietrich died in Paris of natural causes on 6 May 1992.
• • On 27 December 2002 in Chicago Tribune • •
• • Chicago Tribune readers spotted "The Party Continues" written by Nancy Maes as they ploughed through the newspaper on 27 December 2002.
• • Nancy Maes wrote: The theme of the next round classic Hollywood films in the Lunchtime Matinee series is "The Party Continues." It includes "Top Hat," (1935) starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (Monday); "Holiday" (1938) with Katharine Hepburn (the name as published has been corrected in this text), Thursday; and "My Little Chickadee," (1940) featuring Mae West and W.C. Fields. The series complements the "Matinee Idols and Movie Queens," exhibition at the Chicago Tourism Center. Lunchtime Matinee, all films at noon, Chicago Tourism Center, 72 E. Randolph St., free.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "You're never too old to become younger."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on John Kobal and "Made in Hollywood" mentioned Mae West.
• • Philippa Hawker wrote: While John Kobal was an avid collector, he was scrupulous about standards: he had a critical eye, Crocker says, and the images he amassed were of the best quality. The collection soon became an important resource and archive for historians, scholars and filmmakers. Andy Warhol — — always an ardent admirer of the old Hollywood — — was among those who drew on Kobal's images.
• • Philippa Hawker continued: John Kobal's interest was first in the photographs, then in the photographers themselves. He was on the set of "Myra Breckenridge," the notorious 1970 vehicle for an older Mae West. A photographer named George Hurrell, who first worked for MGM in 1930, was on set to take pictures of Mae West. Kobal was amazed to discover that the man whose images he admired was there, in front of him, still at work. ...
• • "Made in Hollywood" is at the Bendigo Art Gallery (Australia) from 3 December 2011 to 12 February 2012 . . .
• • Source: Article: "Made in Hollywood" written by Philippa Hawker for the Sydney Morning Herald; posted on 19 November 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2158th 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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A few years ago, two different seances were held for MAE WEST in Manhattan. One took place in 2005 on her birthday, when a female medium attached to Lily Dale had officiated. Several months later, for an episode of the TV series "Dead Famous," a longer seance was arranged (in the same eastside location) and a male medium was in charge. Dramatist LindaAnn Loschiavo, whose stage play "Courting Mae West" will be seen in January 2012 in Melbourne, Australia, organized and attended both.
• • On 15 September 2011 a rather rowdy seance will be led by psychic Char Margolis, who will be trying to tap the high-kicking spirits of the celebrity souls who once enjoyed ice cream sundaes, parfaits, macaroons, apple pie a la mode, and banana splits at Serendipity. Located a kiss stop away from Bloomingdale's, Serendipity has had a lot of A-list diners over the the past 57 years including Mae West, Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Clark Gable, Dennis Hopper, Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, Andy Warhol, Jackie O, and many more. On site will be a signed contract by Mae West along with numerous personal items and autographed photos from these individuals (and other stars) to help act as a conduit to contact the dearly departed.
• • According to the owner, Mae West dined in his restaurant in June 1970 when her film "Myra Breckinridge" opened in NYC. She was escorted by a gentleman, very likely Paul Novak. Apprehensive about flying, "Mae's 1970 trip to the East Coast was only the second time the Brooklyn bombshell had been on an airplane," remarked Mae maven Damon Devine. She preferred train travel or booking a steamship passage instead whenever long distance transportation was required.
• • Founded in 1954, the landmark NYC restaurant [225 East 60th Street, NYC] has offered forkfuls of juicy celebrity gossip ever since a columnist spotted Cary Grant with Grace Kelly, who were ensconced in a booth on a romantic rendezvous, explained the owner Stephen Bruce. September 15th's channeling begins at 11:00 AM New York City time.
• • On 15 September 1937 • •
• • It was 15 September 1937 when newsstands in the Midwest carried this headline: "Michigan Sprint Star Plays Bit in Mae West Film." The reference was to the athlete Sam Stoller [1915 — 1985] who was born in Cincinnati. After winning the 100-yard championship, Sam Stoller announced that he intended to pursue a career as "a crooner Movie Star" and, subsequently, became known as "Singin' Sammy Stoller." Screen comedian Joe E. Brown was instrumental in getting Stoller bit parts in several 1937 motion pictures along with registration with the Screen Actors Guild. Stoller's first part was in a crowd scene at the legendary New York cafe Rector's in Mae West's "Every Day's a Holiday," when he was 22 years old.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said this: "Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A journalist in India mentioned Mae West in a recent column.
• • Writing for the publication Hindu Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi leads off with a quote from Mae West: The American actress Mae West once remarked “I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.” Succumbing to, or resisting such weaknesses, may now be chargeable to service tax, since the draft paper on a negative list of services issued by the Government includes a clause “obligation to refrain from an act, or to tolerate an act or a situation, or to do an act” under the definition of service. ...
• • Source: Article: "Negative list for service tax" written by Mohan R. Lavi for Hindu Business Line; posted on 12 September 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2054th 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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MAE WEST worked with a large cast during the filming of "Klondike Annie" [1936].
• • Born in San Bernardino, California on 16 June 1893, Philo McCullough launched his cinema career in 1914 and was invariably hired as an extra for "Klondike Annie" and 254 other motion pictures. Philo McCullough did play himself in "Follow the Boys" [1944], a celebrity-studded vehicle starring George Raft and featuring Marlene Dietrich and many other notables. He also took part in 42 productions slated for TV.
• • Philo McCullough was last seen in the movie houses in "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" [1969]. He died in Burbank, California at age 87 in the month of June — — on 5 June 1981.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Turning down the role of Myra, in "Myra Breckinridge," Mae West explained: I like my sexes stable.
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Susan Salter Reynolds reviews the new book "Lives and Letters" by Robert Gottlieb [NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011, 426 pages], which discusses public figures and celebrities he encountered such as Mae West.
• • Susan Salter Reynolds writes: Robert Gottlieb [born 29 April 1931] has had front-row seats for decades to the great drama of American culture: as an editor at publishing houses Simon & Schuster and Alfred A. Knopf, and as the editor of the New Yorker after he replaced William Shawn in 1987, a time he refers to as "The Troubles." In these essays he has written about public figures, writers, performers, Hollywood stars and theater legends. Mae West, Tallulah Bankhead, Bruno Bettelheim, the Mitfords, Diana Vreeland, John Steinbeck, Judith Krantz, Rudyard Kipling and many others come under his ferocious, often protective scrutiny. . ...
• • Source: Book Review column: "Discoveries" written by Susan Salter Reynolds, The Los Angeles Times; posted on 5 June 2011
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Clearly, Robert Gottlieb enjoyed Mae West and relished writing about her, too.
• • In 2001, Robert Gottlieb explained: Poor Mae West! First, struggling up the hard way-the not-quite-savory background, burlesque, vaudeville; notoriety (well, she enjoyed that); sneered at by the classy side of Broadway and later of Hollywood (Miriam Hopkins huffed of her own films and West's: "They don't belong in the same conversation or category"); slow artistic and box-office death at the hands of the Hays Office; desperate attempts to reassert her appeal; the ghastly Myra Breckinridge (when she thought they were offering her Myra, she turned it down: "I like my sexes stable") and the even-more-ghastly Sextette (she was 84; said The New York Times , "Granny should have her mouth washed out with soap, along with her teeth"); and, ultimately, retreat into fantasy in her all-white-and-gold, all-mirrored apartment — — the preferred décor of America's infamous Diamond Lil.
• • Robert Gottlieb continued: But lucky Mae West, too — — the slow but sure progress until she had kootchy-kootched and shimmied her way up the showbiz ladder and was starring in her own plays on Broadway; overnight stardom in Hollywood in 1932, when she was 39; tremendous box office, huge salary, almost unparalleled control over her movies — — writing her own dialogue, overseeing casting, slipping and sliding around the dread Production Code until even she couldn't get away with her innuendoes and provocations; enjoying as many comebacks as Judy Garland (though unlike Garland, she remained in strict control of her work, her image, and her money). She may have been a laughingstock to some, but to others she was a brilliant original — — a woman of large talents, if not education, who triumphantly asserted the right to her rampant sexuality and created a type as unique as Chaplin, Garbo, or the Marx Brothers. Colette put it with her customary acuity: "She alone, out of an enormous and dull catalogue of heroines, does not get married at the end of the film, does not die, does not take the road to exile, does not gaze sadly at her declining youth in a silver-framed mirror …. She alone has no parents, no children, no husband. This impudent woman is, in her style, as solitary as Chaplin used to be."
• • Robert Gottlieb noted: Celebrate Mae West or mock her, you can only feel sympathy for this game (and gamy) woman now that she's been discovered by academia. First, she was taken up by the genderists — — wasn't she "empowered"? Didn't she fight for her rights as Independent Woman and prevail? She battled the censors, she battled the moguls, she defied the police (she and the whole cast of her play SEX were thrown in jail, where she seems to have had a good time). Like Catherine the Great — — whom she impersonated on Broadway — — she chewed men up and spat them out. And most important of all, she never allowed anyone — — whether in a professional or personal relationship — — to compromise her great creation, "Mae West." As much as any woman of the 20th century, she took control of her life and kept it: an essential feminist heroine, and rightly so. ...
• • Source: Excerpt from a Book Review: "Come Up and Signify Me: Mae West Meets Academia" written by Robert Gottlieb, The New York Observer; posted on 4 November 2001
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 1952nd 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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MAE WEST recorded an LP "Great Balls of Fire" that was released in 1972 — — and one track was "Rock Around the Clock," the exuberant chart-buster that Dick Clark has called "the rock and roll anthem."
• • Written in 1953 and first recorded by the Italian-American band Sonny Dae and His Knights [Arcade label], it became a phenomenal hit instead for a country music performer Bill Haley [1925 — 1981]. When Bill Haley & His Comets recorded it [Decca label] on 12 April 1954, the front man was pushing 30 and looked older.
• • Born in the USA on 26 October 1919, James E. Myers was a songwriter, producer, raconteur, promoter, and occasional actor. Myers is best known as the credited co-writer (with Max C. Freedman) of "Rock Around the Clock," written under the penname "Jimmy DeKnight." James E. Myers died of leukemia at age 81 in the month of May — — on Wednesday 9 May 2001 in Bonita Springs, Florida.
• • Keeping up with the times, Mae West offered her own sassy version on this album produced over a dozen years later.
• • Mae in the Merry Month of May • •
• • Mae West appears in the current issue of People Magazine [2 May 2011].
• • Quote, Unquote • • 
• • The popbytes.com book reviewer writes: Her approach is that of a camaraderie with the subject, intimate conversations compiled over years and years of friendship, it’s almost too good to be true that she was so close with so many stars for so many years including Mae West, Joan Crawford, Billy Wilder, Marlene Dietrich, and many others. Though it’s not only possible that there’s a fair bit of liberty taken with her biographies, I will give Charlotte Chandler the upper hand, she does give a fresh story, an exciting facet to the genre, that few others can achieve. One thing struck me, how quietly Marlene came to the surface. ...
• • Source: Review: "‘Marlene’ quietly released …" written by a reviewer for popbytes.com; posted on 4 May 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 1925th 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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When MAE WEST was starring in "My Little Chickadee," a comedy set in the old West, Universal Pictures was also producing a Western-themed musical comedy "Destry Rides Again" [which debuted in New York on 30 November 1939]. Though the title would seem to be weighted in the direction of two actors — — James Stewart in the title role as Tom Destry, Jr. and Charles Winninger as his deputy Washington Dimsdale — — Dietrich owns the movie. This vehicle became a career reviving performance for the fishnet stockinged bar singer Frenchie, sexy and memorable despite wearing a hideous wig.
• • Born in Germany in the month of December — — on 27 December 1901 — — Marlene Dietrich was an actress and a singer who knew Mae West when they were both stars at Paramount Pictures.
• • Here are Mae West and Marlene Dietrich on the set of "My Little Chickadee" in 1939. Dietrich is in her Frenchie costume and Mae is made up as Flower Belle Lee.
• • Mae-mavens will also remember former vaudevillian Charles Winninger as Van Reighle Van Pelter Van Doon in his 1937 featured role in "Every Day's a Holiday" starring Mae West.
• • Mae West & Salvador Dalì Back in Milan • •
• • Salvador Dalì is back in Milan, Italy for the first time since the solo exhibition which took place in October 1954 in Sala delle Cariatidi — — always at Palazzo Reale. This same Cariatidi’s room was so inspiring for this artist that he took it as model for his mansion in Figueras, today seat of the Fundaciò Gala-Salvador Dalì.
• • “Once again, we need Dalì to escape from an often boring and predictable condition. And this exhibition aims exactly to break the cultural conformism and express the great power of creativity at best," explains the Milan City Councillor for Culture Massimiliano Finazzer Flory. . . .
• • The set of the exhibition is designed by the architect Oscar Tusquests Blanca, friend and collaboration of Salvador Dalì: he is author, together with the master of Surrealism, of Mae West’s room in Figueras’s museum and of the famous sofa Dalilips.
• • For the first time, the Mae West room will be reproduced inside this exhibition exactly as Dalì originally imagined it: an extraordinary surprisingly installation of contemporary art. . . .
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• • Article: "Salvador Dalà Exhibition in Milan has Welcomed More than 222,000 Visitors in Two Months"
• • Published by: ArtDaily.org
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A Texas exhibition currently open to the public features MAE WEST.
• • Publicity materials announced that the title of this show "There is Never Only One Game in Town" is (supposedly) a Mae West quote and this statement is also on one of the drawings in the project starring the Brooklyn bombshell.
• • Artist Mary Beth Edelson is offering a look at work created from 1981 — 1997. Most of the 46 framed mixed-media wall pieces are being exhibited for the first time and feature collages inspired by feminine power. The artist's imagination was fed by Hollywood nostalgia, which can be seen in her renderings of marquee names such as Mae West, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich in a military uniform, Helen Reddy, and also TV's Wonder Woman Lynda Carter. There was rather too much self-important nose-blowing set adrift in the publicity materials and paraphrasing it here might actually turn off museum-goers, so just check out the artwork for yourself in The Lone Star State.
• • The exhibit will continue till 11 December 2010 at McKinney Avenue Contemporary, 3120 McKinney Avenue, Dallas, TX 75204; tel. 214.953.1212.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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