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Hollywood film censor Joe Breen's name turns up on an awful lot of correspondence involving MAE WEST. Someone had a brilliant idea to title her next picture "It Ain't No Sin." This would be retitled several more times before it was sent out into the world as "Belle of the Nineties." Let's follow the backstage drama, shall we? This is Part 2.
• • in cases where our letters indicate serious danger • • . . .
• • Joe Breen wrote, "It is our thought that in cases where our letters indicate serious danger, the heads of the companies in New York promptly get busy with the studio executives, most probably." Breen tells Hays that they will accede to Paramount's request, but will keep accurate records as evidence "in the case of troublesome pictures, that we warned the studio of the danger."
• • "There is much "under cover" work going on," Breen continues, "that smacks to me of a desire on the part of the studios definitely to outsmart and outwit the machinery of the Code, and to fly a lone kite in the matter of production, without any counsel, guidance, or reference to New York offices. ... The general attitude we have found here [in Hollywood] with regard to the public criticism which has become so widespread [is for Hollywood filmmakers to] belittle it all, to sneer at [their] critics and to continue to make pictures to suit [themselves.]
• • "I am deeply concerned about it all" • • . . .
• • Source: Notes [from TCMDb Archive Materials].
• • To be continued tomorrow with Part 3, the last excerpt.
• • On Sunday, 6 June 1976 in the U.K. • •
• • In Britain the Sunday Times did an article that quoted Stanley Musgrove, who was serving as Mae's deputy for the film project "Sextette," and communicating with the young producers Dan Briggs and Robert Sullivan. The feature was printed on Sunday, June 6, 1976.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • W. C. Fields and Mae West spoof the Old West in the 1940 classic film "My Little Chickadee."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “Cultivate your curves. They may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A feature in Star Pulse mentioned Mae West.
• • Star Pulse asked: And who would you say was your greatest lover?
• • Mamie Van Doren responded: Oh god, so many of them were good! Then, there were the bad ones. I talked about Burt Reynolds. He was the worst. But nobody cares about Burt Reynolds today. [She laughs.]
• • Mamie Van Doren responded: I had one guy, Steve Cochran, but no one probably knows him. He was Mae West’s lover. He was very good and I didn’t mind sharing a lover with Mae West. She had very good taste. I never experienced a lesbian encounter. ...
• • Source: Interview: “Legendary Mamie Van Doren on 'Playing the Field'” written by Stephanie Nolasco for Star Pulse; posted on Monday, 3 June 2013
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 12th anniversary • •
• • Thank
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milestone recently when we completed 3,700 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started ten years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3719th blog post.
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Joseph Ignatius Breen [1888 — 1965] was a Hollywood film censor whose name turns up on an awful lot of correspondence involving MAE WEST. Someone had a brilliant idea to title her next picture "It Ain't No Sin." This would be re-titled several more times before it was sent out into the world as "Belle of the Nineties." Let's follow the backstage drama, shall we? This is Part 1.
• • Notes [from TCMDb Archive Materials] • •
• • Paramount's Hollywood office asked the Hays Office to refrain from sending Emanuel Cohen a letter stating the Office's decision on this film in an effort to keep Paramount executives in New York from becoming involved in the controversy.
• • On June 2, 1934, Breen wrote to Hays Office director, Will H. Hays, stating that Hollywood producers were conspiring, in a "sort of off-the-record understanding," to keep censorship decisions from their studio heads in New York, who received carbon copies of Hays Office correspondence.
• • According to Breen, a few days previous to Paramount's request, Louis B. Mayer had also requested that the Office stop writing him letters.
• • in cases where our letters indicate serious danger • • . . .
• • To be continued tomorrow with Part 2.
• • On Saturday, 5 June 2010 in New Zealand • •
• • Mae West is still on the music charts. Brava! Mae's rendition of "Mister Deep Blue Sea" charted on Saturday, 5 June 2010 on New Zealand's Jazz Music Chart at position 104.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Salvador DalÃ's Mae West Lips Sofa is such a famous image to us now that it's easy to forget that it was an object designed as a mouth you could sit on.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I consider myself above changing. I haven't time to change. I'm not looking backward at what I've done or what success has come my way. The minute you do that and stand around on what's already come your way, you're headed back in the other direction."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A syndicated columnist mentioned Mae West.
• • "Dorothy Kilgallen Reports on Broadway" • •
• • "Mae West Tells All About Love" • •
• • Mae West, that eminent psychologist, is about to do a series titled "Mae West Tells All About Love," in which the star of stage and screen will answer letters from video viewers with problems of the heart. ...
• • Source: Item in The Voice of Broadway by Dorothy Kilgallen; published on Sunday, 24 August 1958
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 12th 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 3,700 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started ten years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3718th 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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• • Photo: • • Mae West • • in 1958 • •
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