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It was truly a WEST END date on the 25th day of January 1948 when MAE WEST opened the United Kingdom tour of "Diamond Lil" at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London town. The broad from Brooklyn had never been abroad before.
• • "Who else can manage to 'shimmy' sitting down?" wrote one British drama critic in wonderment.
• • The production was directed by William Mollison who died in the month of October — — on19 October 1955 — — in London England at the age of 61.
• • In the London cast were Richard Bailey as Captain Cummings; David Davies as Gus Jordan; Hal Gould as Chick Clark; Noele Gordon as Rita; Bruno Barnabe as Juarez, etc.
• • The Prince of Wales Theatre is a legitimate playhouse located at 31 Coventry St., London, England, W1D 6AS near Leicester Square in the City of Westminster. It was established in 1884 and rebuilt in 1937 — — and extensively refurbished in 2004 by Sir Cameron Mackintosh, its current owner.
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MAE WEST was attracted to tall, dark, and handsome gents. Calvin Lockhart certainly fit this description.
• • Born as Bert Cooper in Nassau in the month of October — — on 18 October 1934 — — he was raised in the Bahamas before relocating to The Big Apple with ambitions of becoming a civil engineer. He entered Cooper Union but dropped out to forge a performing arts career. The story goes that he was a cabdriver when he was discovered by playwright Ketti Frings, who was so impressed with his arrogance that she cast him in her play "The Cool World" [1960]. From there the six-foot-two hunk aroused controversy on Broadway when he played a black sailor in love with a white girl in the racially-themed "A Taste of Honey" starring Angela Lansbury.
• • The year 1970 was a high-profile time for the actor. A strong, confident, smoothly handsome presence, Bahamian-born Calvin Lockhart first caught moviegoers' attention in the supercharged urban films "Cotton Comes to Harlem" (1970) and "Halls of Anger" (1970) before becoming a fairly steady fixture in the "blaxploitation" movies of the early-to-mid 1970s.
• • In "Myra Breckinridge" [1970] Calvin Lockhart was cast as Irving Amadeus.
• • Complications from a stroke brought about his demise. He died on 29 March 2007 in his homeland, Nassau, Bahamas.
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Imagine how MAE WEST felt midway through a poorly received run. After all that effort, by mid-October the advance ticket sales were totally tepid. Weeks later, on 4 November 1931, the final curtain would come down at the Royale Theatre on "The Constant Sinner" starring and written by Mae West. 
• • Set in Harlem, the play opened on 14 September 1931 and ran for only 64 performances on Broadway.
• • The Great Depression increased the number of jobless adults and, by 1931, the unemployment rate had reached nearly 16 percent. Obviously, the bleak economic downturn took a bite out of the box office, lowering everyone's prospects for profitability — — not only Mae West's productions. But the storyline of "The Constant Sinner" — — Babe Gordon's love for Money Johnson, a dark-skinned Harlem hoodlum with a bootlegging empire, kept many theatre-goers away. Miscegenation was a touchy subject in 1931, as Mae West knew. The Harlem Breakfast Club scenes also featured inter-racial couples. Racial attitudes being what they were during the 1930s, several critics who reviewed the play said that these scenes "turn the stomach."
• • Mae West had a large pool of African-American talent to pick from. She cast fourteen black actors and actresses, many with serious stage credentials. However, Mae was not allowed to cast the dashing, debonair actor she really wanted — — LORENZO TUCKER, billed as "The Black Valentino" — — for the role of "Money Johnson."
• • The Shuberts and Jim Timony refused to let Mae West cast a black man as her lover, afraid this would trigger police raids and worse. Forced to give in, Mae agreed to hire vaudevillian George Givot to play the Harlem hotshot during the play's Broadway run. George Givot [shown here in 1936] played the role in blackface. The Shuberts wrote it into his contract that, at the end of each performance, Givot would have to remove his wig to assure the audience that it was a Caucasian who was embracing the curvy blonde "Babe Gordon" [Mae West] onstage.
• • When a detective warns Babe Gordon she is in a tight spot, she shoots back, "I can always handle tight spots."
• • Another suggestive line was this one from Babe Gordon: "COME UP SOMETIME, BOYS," she purrs to a group of guys. "I'LL TELL YOUR FORTUNE."
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According to biographer Emily Wortis Leider: The Ginger Box served up wall-to-wall MAE WEST. In addition to featuring her as Circe, turning her lovers into swine, it presented Mae West as a Broadway vamp (played to Harry Richman's victim), Mae West singing "I Want a Cave Man," Mae West clowning to Tommy Gray's "I'm a Night School Teacher," and torching a song whose regretful tone she would later rule out: "Sorry I Made You Cry." 
• • The libretto credit went to Paul Dupont, and the music credit went to Arthur H. Gutman. Promotional material printed by Jerome H. Remick & Co. indicated the first number was to be Mae's introductory song "Come Over" followed by "Canoodle-Ooodle-Oo," then "Eugene O'Neill, You've Put a Curse on Broadway" — — also meant for Mae.
• • Born during the month of October, Eugene O'Neill started his life in a Broadway (New York City) hotel room in Times Square. The site is now a Starbucks (1500 Broadway, Northeast corner of West 43rd & Broadway). A commemorative plaque is posted on the outside wall with the inscription: "Eugene O'Neill, October 16, 1888 — November 27, 1953 America's greatest playwright was born on this site then called Barrett Hotel, Presented by Circle in the Square."
• • During the 1910s, Eugene O'Neill was a regular on the Greenwich Village literary scene, where he also befriended many radicals, most notably Communist Labor Party founder John Reed.
• • "The Hairy Ape" is an expressionist play by Eugene O'Neill (1922), and this was the drama being mocked in Mae's song. "Lemme up! I'll show ya who's an ape!" Imagine it, if you will.
• • O'Neill's involvement with the Provincetown Players began in mid-1916. Four years later, his first published play, "Beyond the Horizon," opened on Broadway in 1920 to great acclaim, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. O'Neill also received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his writing. Then in 1936 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Despite this outstanding acclaim, however, his portraits invariably show the unsmiling author with the most miserable expression.
• • Across the street from O'Neill's birthplace, Paramount Pictures established their iconic headquarters at 1501 Broadway and debuted many Mae West motion pictures in their street-level theatre during the 1930s.
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MAE WEST spoofed the snobbism of opera in her motion picture "Goin' to Town" [release date: 25 April 1935] — — costumed, hilariously, as the Biblical temptress Delilah. Portraying the star-crossed strongman Samson she serenades was none other than Mae's pesky in-law Vladimir Bykoff [billed as "the Tenor"]. Classical music buffs are either amused by Mae's spunkiness or astonished by an affornt to composer Camille Saint-Saens.
• • But everybody wants to get into a Mae West mode nowadays, including The Met.
• • Daily News Theatre Critic Joe Dziemanowicz just interviewed Jean Braham, a chorus member at the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan.
• • Joe Dziemanowicz writes: Jean Braham, a soprano who lives in Washington Heights, has sung fulltime in the chorus for 12 years. Like other sopranos, she double duties as a peasant and a rich lady in waiting. . . . And there's more to come. Upcoming roles for Braham include a working woman in "La Boheme," which starts on Saturday. In February she'll play a Chinese farmer in "Nixon in China." And in April she's Mae West in the Met's hallucinatory "Orfeo" — — one of her favorite parts, she says. Good-bye, bread and tears. Hello, come up and see me some time.
• • We are grateful to Joe Dziemanowicz for this information. Mae West in the Met's hallucinatory "Orfeo" — — who knew?
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• • Article: "Metropolitan Opera's 'Boris Godunov,' by Mussorgsky, is a showcase for Rene Pape but also the chorus"
• • By Joe Dziemanowicz | DAILY NEWS THEATRE CRITIC
• • Published on: Thursday, 14 October 2010
• • Published on: http://www.nydailynews.com/
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MAE WEST was a big fan of The Clef Club. As rehearsals began in early July 1922 for "The Ginger Box Revue," the producer had booked this exciting group — — New York's premiere African-American musicians — — to play between the acts. This organization had been established by James Reese Europe and Henry Creamer, two gentlemen whose musicianship found a lifelong fan in Mae West.
• • Born in Richmond, Virginia, Henry Creamer [21 June 1879 — 14 October 1930] was an American popular song lyricist. He co-wrote many popular songs in the years from 1900 —1929, often collaborating with Turner Layton, with whom he also appeared in vaudeville.
• • In 1918, Henry Creamer wrote the words for the hit "After You've Gone" — — and every major artist has covered it. Here's a snippet from the chorus:
• • • • After you've gone and left me crying
• • • • After you've gone there's no denying• • • • You'll feel blue, you'll feel sad,
• • • • You'll miss the bestest pal you've ever had . . . .
• • Mae West performed "After You've Gone" in "Sextette" [1978], a song she fondly remembered from her New York years when she frequented the hottest night spots in Harlem. That she had schemed and planned to bring recognition to The Clef Club in her 1922 show (and others) is also significant. This was at a time when many Caucasian entertainers were still refusing to appear in a mixed-race revue.
• • Though Henry Creamer died on October 14th, many singers are still applauding. How lovely to be remembered, after you've gone.
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Before she was famous, MAE WEST was often cast in stage productions as an Irish maid. Starring in a Hollywood movie in 1933, the Brooklyn bombshell added a goodly number of black actresses to the cast, seasoned performers who would play Tira's maids.
• • One of these charmers was Gertrude Howard, who was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas in the month of October — — on 13 October 1892.
• • In her role in "I'm No Angel" as Tira's maid Beulah Thorndyke, Gertrude Howard would be forever linked to the line: "Beulah, peel me a grape!"
• • The five-foot-four character actress began working in the motion picture industry in 1925. Two years later, the 35-year-old would be featured as Uncle Tom's wife Chloe in the screen version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" [1927].
• • Mae was quite saddened by Gertrude Howard's untimely death in Los Angeles on 30 September 1934 — — and she was actively involved in making preparations for this Hollywood funeral.
• • • • Cast for "I'm No Angel" • • • •
• • Tira . . . Mae West
• • Jack Clayton . . . Cary Grant
• • Bill Barton . . . Edward Arnold
• • Slick . . . Ralf Harolde
• • Barker . . . Russel Hopton
• • Alicia Hatton . . . Gertrude Michael
• • Kirk . . . Kent Taylor
• • Thelma . . . Dorothy Peterson
• • Benny Pinkowitz . . . Gregory Ratoff
• • Beulah Thorndyke . . . Gertrude Howard
• • The Chump . . . William B. Davidson
• • Bob, the Attorney . . . Irving Pichel
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MAE WEST cherished immutability. 
• • Charles Darwin may have challenged the fixity of species, however, Mae made up her mind that she would only play characters who were in their twenties — — women who were sexy, ambitious, sought after, in control, and decorated with diamonds.
• • The autumn of 1964 brought Mae face to face with her fears: mortality and mutability.
• • Though Mae had taken good care of her health, shortly after her 71st birthday she was hospitalized and her ailments were scrutinized. The diagnosis was diabetes.
• • As Mae was quietly convalescing at home, with Paul Novak at her side, she received the worst news. Her beloved brother John Edwin West, 64, had a massive heart attack.
• • As he matured, her kid brother's career had stalled. More than once, he had turned to his movie-queen sister for assistance. But Mae also remembered how much she had counted on John's unfailing loyalty during her court trials. In 1930, for instance, when the Pleasure Man court trial had bankrupted her, and she was too upset to seek work, John supported his two unemployed sisters and set up a nice household for the three of them in an apartment building on West 57th Street (across the street from Carnegie Hall).
• • Born on 11 February 1900, John Edwin West died during October — — on 12 October 1964. Mae made arrangements for his body to be sent back to Brooklyn to the family crypt.
• • Two weeks later, Mae — — who hated to think about death — — made a Will.
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MAE WEST worked with many bit part players — — and the inglorious label "uncredited" often defined these two hard working gentlemen who plied their trade in Hollywood for decades.
• • Born in Japan in the month of October — — on 11 October 1907 — — Rollin Moriyama was cast as the Japanese Delegate in "Sextette" [1978]. The Oriental character actor was seen in "Mash" as General Park and in many other productions. After decades of work before the camera, Moriyama died on Christmas Day 1992 in Santa Clara, California at the age of 85.
• • London born in 1920, Richard Peel was cast as Christian, the Sussex Score Hotel chef in "Sextette" [1978]. Actively cast in numerous cinematic roles during the 1950 and 19060s, Richard Peel died in October — — on 11 October 1988 — — at the age of 68.
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MAE WEST worked with energetic vaudevillian Eddie Cantor — — who left his fans during October.
• • Born on the Lower East Side on 31 January 1892, Eddie Cantor was a native New Yorker who launched his career as an actor, a singer, a songwriter, and who became one of the most popular entertainers in the USA in the early and middle 20th century. He was known to Broadway, radio, and early TV audiences as "Banjo Eyes" and "the Apostle of Pep." Cantor was regarded by millions as "a member of the family" because of his intimate radio shows that involved anecdotes and antics about his wife Ida and their five daughters.
• • Stages where Mae and Eddie Cantor both performed in New York City include the Paramount (the one in Manhattan as well as the Brooklyn venue), The Palace, Hammerstein's Victoria, and many places in Coney Island.
• • On 20 January 1934, Eddie Cantor was the M.C. during a stage show at the Paramount Theatre (Broadway and West 43rd Street). In one number, he appeared in a Mae West costume. Yes, this actually happened onstage, so try to imagine it.
• • On 22 January 1934, both Mae West and Eddie Cantor entertained at the New Amsterdam Theatre [214 West 42nd Street] — — at the 52nd annual benefit for the Actors' Fund.
• • Eddie Cantor died at the age of 72 in the month of October — — on 10 October 1964. He is being remembered this month as a hard-working performer, a humanitarian, a native New Yorker, and an old trouper whose artistry Mae West enjoyed.
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Though MAE WEST, by choice, did not do much TV work, her fans really enjoyed her star turn on "Mr. Ed" — — broadcast on 22 March 1964. Word comes that the complete 4th season of the iconic program will be available next month, along with the Mae West episode.
• • According to David Lambert: Mister Ed — — 26 more episodes of the legendary series are available in mid-November
• • David Lambert writes: Earlier this week we reported that Shout! Factory is preparing a mid-November DVD release of Mister Ed — — The Complete 4th Season. The 4-disc set will be available exclusively via the Shout! Select program at the studio's online store. Now Shout! Factory has informed us that the official ship date for this title will be November 16th, and they've provided us with this description as well:
• • • • Here for the first time on DVD are all 26 episodes from the fourth season of the classic TV sitcom. Architect Wilbur Post (Alan Young, "The Time Machine") and his wife Connie (Connie Hines) are once again up to their ears in trouble — — and hilarity — — with the mischief brought on by their meddlesome talking horse. This season Ed helps the Dodgers clinch the National League pennant, hits an inside-the-parker off Sandy Koufax, starts a one-horse band, visits San Francisco, plays Santa, and runs off to live with Mae West! Guest stars include Mae West, Leo Durocher, Sandy Koufax, John Roseboro, Willie Davis, Bill "Moose" Skowron, Vin Scully, Sharon Tate, Butch Patrick, Jack Albertson and Abigail Van Buren (aka "Dear Abby"). ...
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• • Article: "Mister Ed" — — Ship Date Revealed for Shout! Select Release of The Complete 4th Season
• • Byline: David Lambert
• • Published by: TV Shows on DVD — — http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/
• • Published on: 8 October 2010
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MAE WEST, costumed as "Maudie Triplett" in her slinky evening gown from "Night After Night," is the first comedienne featured in a brand new slide show highlighting female achievement in cinema.
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• • Saul Austerlitz writes: For someone telling the story of the American comedy film, one of the most striking subplots is the relative paucity of great female comedians onscreen. Especially when compared with television, which has nurtured the brilliant likes of Lucille Ball, Mary Tyler Moore and Roseanne Barr, the American film has remained mostly inhospitable to female comedians. The ranks of critically and commercially successful comic stars, past and present, have been dominated by men. And yet, with such luminous performers as Mae West, Katharine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, and Barbara Stanwyck, the American comedy is studded with remarkable women in unforgettable roles. ...
• • Saul Austerlitz describes "She Done Him Wrong" (Lowell Sherman, 1933) like this: "She Done Him Wrong" was batting practice for comedian extraordinaire Mae West (who also wrote the film's script), its script a series of softballs tossed the way of her amorous, amoral Lady Lou, each smacked out of the park with lackadaisical assurance. Cary Grant, unrecognizably young, is the official straight man here, representing the massed forces of overbearing gentility, but truth be told, there are nothing but straight men here. Their lines all serve as setups to West's wise, witty punch lines.
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• • Byline: Saul Austerlitz
• • Article: Funny Girls: 10 Great Comedies of Our Time — — Culture buff and author Saul Austerlitz outlines his picks for the best female-centric comedies of the last 100 years.
• • Published by: The Women on the Web — — www.wowowow.com/
• • Published on: 7 October 2010
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Two gentlemen, linked to MAE WEST and motion pictures, share a date in the month of October — — namely the 7th of October.
• • Born in Flagstaff, Arizona, Andy Devine [7 October 1905 — 18 February 1977] had a long career on the silver screen and on TV as a character actor and comic cowboy sidekick, always known for his distinctive raspy voice. Andy Devine was cast as Coyote Bill in "Myra Breckinridge" [1970] when he was in his mid-60s.
• • Born in Toronto, Canada on 7 October 1929, Graeme Ferguson became a director, producer, cinematographer during his student days.
• • Graeme Ferguson, co-founder of IMAX Corporation and its president from 1970 — 1990, found his calling via a summer job at the National Film Board in 1950 while studying political science and economics at the University of Toronto.
• • Ferguson was the co-writer (and co-producer with Saul J. Turell) of "The Love Goddesses" [1965], which featured Mae West. Two years earlier, he was the screenwriter, director, and producer of "The Legend of Rudolph Valentino" [1963], an actor Mae especially admired.
• • Graeme Ferguson is 81 years old today and we wish him well.
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Inspired by her Brooklyn visits to Bostock's lions in Coney Island, MAE WEST wrote "I'm No Angel," which was released in the month of October — — on 6 October 1933. 
• • Here's what New York Times critic Mordaunt Hall thought after the advance screening in 1933:
• • Mordaunt Hall wrote: Arrayed in a variety of costumes which set off her sinuous form, Mae West is appearing at the Paramount in her latest screen vehicle, "I'm No Angel," a title which, as might be surmised, fits the leading character. Here Miss West, who wrote the story herself from "suggestions contributed" by Lowell Brentano, is beheld as a circus beauty named Tira, who wins applause and admiration by risking her blond head in a lion's mouth twice daily.
• • It is a rapid-fire entertainment, with shameless but thoroughly contagious humor, and one in which Tira is always the mistress of the situation, whether it be in the cage with wild beasts, in her boudoir with admirers or in a court of law.
• • Tira is ever ready with a flip double entente, and she permits no skeleton to be found behind her cupboard doors. She has an emphatic personality, which proves a magnet for even social lights with millions. Se receives costly presents, including diamond necklaces, but she is hardly a gold-digger. She refrains from posing, preferring to keep her natural slangy speech in her journey through the story from a tent to a penthouse.
• • She admits that she has thrown discretion to the winds and she sometimes finds herself in an awkward predicament, but through a wily lawyer she succeeds in proving that she is guiltless. The feeble parts of this picture are those in which a criminal known as Slick is introduced. The less one sees of him the better one feels, for the production is interesting only as long as it proceeds on its merry route.
• • The glimpses of Tira making her impressive entry to the circus arena and then proceeding to the big cage with the roaring lions are depicted shrewdly. Tira does not actually stick her whole head in the lion's mouth, but contents herself by putting her face between the beast's jaws, which is quite enough. Even this is set forth with a certain degree of fun, and one feels that Tira probably has a pistol ready for an emergency and that other circus employee are ready to shoot in the event that the beast starts to close its mouth. But one is apt to wonder whether they could possibly be quick enough. Society among the spectators is thrilled, all except one snobbish girl, who is furious because her fiancé is very enthusiastic over the performer's courage — — and her beauty.
• • Later there comes the time when Tira puts her fair head into a court of law as the plaintiff in a breach-of-promise case. She sues Jack Clayton, whom she really loves, for $1,000,000, and it is not Tira's artful counsel who wins the case, but the circus queen herself. She cross-examines the defendant's witnesses and turns their testimony in her own favor, the unusual proceeding being countenanced by a judge whose sympathy Tira wins with the utmost ease.
• • Miss West plays her part with the same brightness and naturalness that attended her send film role. There is no lack of spontaneity in her actions or in the utterance of her lines. She is a remarkable wit, after her fashion. Cary Grant is pleasing as Clayton and Walter Walker is excellent as the considerate old judge. Gregory Ratoff does well as Tira's lawyer.
• • Wesley Ruggles has directed the film with his usual intelligence.
• • Paramount production and release. Stars Mae West.
• • I'm No Angel, 1933 / 87 min.
• • Starring Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff, Edward Arnold, Ralf Harolde, Kent Taylor
• • Cinematography Leo Tover
• • Art Direction Hans Dreier
• • Original Music Harvey Brooks, Karl Hajos, Gladys DuBois, Ben Ellison
• • Story, Screenplay and Dialogues by Mae West
• • Produced by William LeBaron
• • Directed by Wesley Ruggles
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• • Byline: Mordaunt Hall
• • Published by: The New York Times
• • Published on: 13 October 1933
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Another New York City building has claimed MAE WEST as a former inhabitant — — though we have never heard of her living at this address. Typically, the article is hazy on specifics such as what year she was in residence or what floor she lived on. If she really lived (stayed) here, there ought to be some details preserved in writing, no?
• • According to The New York Post columnist Steve Cuozzo, the next big Manhattan hotel to go on the market will be the giant Park Central at 870 Seventh Avenue. Located between West 55th and West 56th Streets near Central Park, the generously appointed inn has nearly 1,000 rooms.
• • Steve Cuozzo notes that the 1920s-vintage Park Central, which recently underwent a $65 million renovation, has had a colorful history under several different names. Residents have included Mae West, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Jackie Gleason, while he was making "The Honeymooners," his popular TV series. Mobsters Arnold Rothstein [1882 — 1928] and Albert Anastasia [1902 — 1957] were assassinated there.
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When Paramount was in production with their latest MAE WEST vehicle "Go West, Young Man," the studio turned to Johnny Burke. 
• • Born in Antioch, California in the month of October — — on 3 October 1908 — — John Burke was a light-hearted American lyricist. It was 1936 when the pianist and vaudeville songwriter was hired by Paramount Pictures, where he would turn out movie music for two decades.
• • After Burke moved to Hollywood, he was paired with composer Arthur Johnston (who created lots of songs for Mae), and they were assigned to their first project: "Go West, Young Man," released that November. No hits emerged from that film, however, Burke and Johnston’s next project was more successful. They were lent, along with Bing Crosby, to Columbia Pictures and had five songs in "Pennies from Heaven," including the title song, which topped the hit parade for Crosby and earned an Academy Award nomination.
• • Between 1930 — 1956, Johnny Burke penned tunes for almost 50 motion pictures often with his collaborators James V. Monaco or Arthur Johnston. Occasionally, he composed as well. He specialized in optimistic even whimsical songs.
• • On 25 February 1964, Johnny Burke died in New York. He was 56 years old and very fondly remembered for his million-sellers such as “Swinging on a Star," "Moonlight Becomes You,” “Sunday, Monday or Always,” as well as other notable numbers.
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Costumed as MAE WEST, vivacious vixen (and young-at-heart senior) Viviam Tremblay gives the audience some "decent exposure" during her solo performance yesterday, 1 October 2010 in The Peachtree State. Viviam was there with the Delmar Darlin's and Gent's show at Delmar Gardens of Gwinnett on Friday afternoon in Lawrenceville. 
• • According to reporter Shane Blatt: Now in its 11th year, the group performs every month at senior centers, nursing homes, and churches across metro Atlanta. ... Each month, the group piles on a bus and treks across metro Atlanta to entertain audiences in Lawrenceville, Suwanee, Dacula, Bethesda and Conyers, among others. The spry seniors have become so popular, they have had to turn down bookings. ...
• • The lovely costumes worn by Scarlett O'Hara, Rhett Butler, Shirley Temple, Dolly Parton, Minnie Pearl, Carol Channing — — played by emcee Claudette Butler — — and other celebrity impersonators are too delightful to ignore. Go read this heart-warming article at the link below.
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• • Article: "Lawrenceville seniors strut stuff for Oscar"
• • By: Shane Blatt
• • Published by: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — — Gwinnett County News
• • Published on: 1 October 2010
• • PHOTO CREDIT: Jason Getz — jgetz@ajc.com
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One more actor who worked with MAE WEST has entered the pearly gates after suffering a fatal heart attack on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 in Nevada.
• • Handsome Tony Curtis was in the curious motion picture directed by Ken Hughes [1922 — 2001] and released in 1978. Though Curtis was cast as a diplomat, he invariably would persist in making undiplomatic remarks about working with his legendary leading lady.
• • If you saw "Sextette," perhaps you remember the scene when newly wed Marlo Manners (now Lady Barrington) and her groom Sir Michael Barrington finally are snug inside their hotel suite. However, the lovebirds are unable to go beddy-bye and celebrate their marital bliss because of noisome botherations. Coitus interruptus (sort of)! These cinematic intrusions are provoked by the demands of milady's career (such as interviews, dress fittings, and photo sessions). Additionally, there are entreaties and knock-knocks from men, including some ex-husbands. Apparently, the vast enrollment of membership in the Marlo Manners Fan Club includes: diplomat Alexei Andreyev Karansky (Tony Curtis), director Laslo Karolny (Ringo Starr), gangster Vance Norton (George Hamilton), and an entire athletic team from the USA, all of whom desire to have sex with Marlo. And, after all, Mae West once did tell an interviewer she had a special interest in foreign affairs.
• • Born on 3 June 1925, the Bronx native started out in life with the ho-hum ethnic moniker Bernard Schwartz. The five-foot-nine leading man enjoyed spreading urban legends about his Herculean feat of doing his cameo as "sexy Lexei" [Alexei Andreyev Karansky] — — and Mae's difficulties on the set.
• • In a kind-hearted obituary, Associated Press had this to say: Tony Curtis, an actor who rose to movie stardom in the 1950s by blending street attitude with near-pretty looks, gave compelling dramatic performances in "Sweet Smell of Success" and "The Defiant Ones" and became a comic icon as a cross-dressing Jazz Age musician in "Some Like It Hot," died of cardiac arrest Wednesday at his Las Vegas-area home. He was 85.
• • Associated Press also noted: Tony Curtis was a veteran of more than 100 films of wildly varying quality. ... He also had a minor role in Mae West's final movie, "Sextette" (1978) . . . . Curtis attributed his long career slump to alcohol and cocaine addictions spurred by alimony payments to his ex-wives and anger toward his peers, whom he felt never accepted him as an actor. ...
• • Two Jewish old-timers gone in the space of a week: Eddie Fisher and Tony Curtis.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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