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A former lover of Jayne Mansfield was featured in one motion picture with MAE WEST.
• • Born in Brazil, Nelson Sardelli celebrates his birthday in the month of September — — on 20 September 1934. The tall (well, 5' 11"), dark, and handsome son of Italian immigrants, who had settled in South America, has said that his father was a major role model. Sardelli pere worked as a policeman for several years before entering the field of law. This vocational calling of his parent somehow ignited his son's desire to amass an enormous trove of police paraphernalia. Not only does he collect firearms but he also picked up the little known accomplishment of "gun twirling," which he shows off during appearances in Vegas and Atlantic City.
• • From 1982 — 1963, Nelson Sardelli had only has three motion pictures to his credit. He was cast in the role of Mario in "Myra Breckinridge" [released on 24 June 1970]. He claims he prefers performing in night clubs to a live audience.
• • He will be celebrating his 77th birthday today. Felicitations and ciao bello, "Mario."
• • Mae West on the Bookshelf • •
• • "Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It" — — the autobiography of Mae West
• • Mae West offers an account of her astonishing career.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said this: "If you don't think you're wonderful, why should anyone else?"
• • Quote, Unquote • • 
• • A fascinating report after seeing Mae West in 1947 at Euston Station in England.
• • The Guardian's London correspondent wrote: All too briefly yesterday the grey gloom of Euston station was lifted by the presence of a radiant personage with strikingly blonde hair and a dazzling smile. Miss Mae West was on her way to Manchester for the opening to-morrow of her play "Diamond Lil." A quarter of an hour before her train was due to leave, Miss West swayed, the tophatted station-master at her side, along the platform to her compartment. Her arrival was the signal for crowds to desert the train and clamour for autographs. It seemed that the actress must have signed almost a hundred small photographs displaying to advantage her well-known features before she took a rest.
• • Then, in the voice Hollywood has made famous, she invited her audience to "Come around and see me in Manchester." The crowd was enchanted and some porters signified their approval of this invitation with loud whistles. Then came a more official whistle. The train started and Miss West, with the 18 men over 6 ft. tall and the 20 girls appearing with her, was carried northwards. ...
• • Source: Review: "Miss West Comes Up" written by The Guardian's London correspondent; published on 20 October 1947
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2059th 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's comedy "Go West Young Man" [1936] will be on the silver screen this month in California.
• • Friday evening, on 23 September, 2011, this motion picture will be shown at 8:15 pm. There will be three more weekend showings September 24th — 25th (at 2:30 pm and at 8:15 pm). The same moviehouse is screening old comedy favorites starring W.C. Fields. The Old Town management wants movie buffs to know that "the Mighty Wurlitzer Theater Pipe Organ is played every weekend during the first half of each show."
• • WHERE: Old Town Music Hall, 140 Richmond Street, El Segundo, CA 90245
• • On 19 September 1919 • •
• • It was on 19 September 1919 that Mae West was booked on the vaudeville circuit, where the New York City critics caught her 16-minute act. Showing off her figure in a dramatic black and white gown and one stunner made of silver shimmer, the 26-year-old performer selected three songs: "Laughing Water," "Yankee Boys Have Made a Wild French Baby Out of Me," and "Everybody Shimmies Now." Harris Music Publishers boasted in a short news article that they had published those songs.
• • Though Variety looked askance at one of Mae's more daring dance numbers, complaining that the movements were "a bit broad for vaudeville," the reviewer had to admit something. "Mae West shows a marked improvement in method and delivery," he wrote.
• • Mae West on the Bookshelf • •
• • "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: From the Secret Files of Harry Pennypacker" by Michael B. Druxman. Published by Wheatmark (2008), this 132 page paperback pretends to be the too-hot-to-handle columns of the controversial journalist Harry Pennypacker.
• • Mae West is featured in this amusing satire set in Tinseltown. The chapter about her and W.C. Fields will both amuse and astonish you.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said this: "Some men are all right in their place — — if they only knew the right places!"
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A fascinating review of the show at Proctor's Fifth Avenue critiqued Mae West.
• • Variety's man on the aisle wrote: "Miss West was an unqualified hit . . . ."
• • Source: Review: "Mae West, Songs, 16 mins." written by a critic for Variety; published on 19 September 1919
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2058th 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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Born in September, the lifelong MAE WEST friend and man-of-the-cloth Andre Penachio [18 September 1926 — 01 April 1999] campaigned vigorously in 1997 and 1998 to have the actress honored with a postage stamp.
• • In 1995, the U.S. Postal Service launched a popular series — — "Legends of Hollywood" — — and devoted the first postage stamp to the late Marilyn Monroe. Other Tinseltown luminaries soon followed, for example, comedienne Lucille Ball and Cary Grant, Mae West's co-star.
• • "Mae West deserves to be commemorated on a stamp," said Bishop Penachio. The Italian American New Yorker first met the movie queen during World War II.
• • Bishop Andre Penachio officiated at Mae West's burial at Cypress Hills Abbey in Brooklyn, New York in 1980.
• • Until his retirement, Bishop Andre Penachio had been attached to the St. Thomas Liberal Catholic Church [147 West 144th Street, New York, NY 10030; 212-283-9566].
• • Get Involved • •
• • Do you agree that the lady should be a stamp? Write a letter! Help get Mae West commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp.
• • Here's a sample letter and here is where you should write:
• • • • To: Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee
• • • • c/o Stamp Development; U S Postal Service
• • • • 475 L’Enfant Plaza SW, Room 3300
• • • • Washington, DC 20260 — 3501
• • • • SAMPLE • • • •
• • Dear Chairman — Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee:
• • Please issue a US postal stamp commemorating MAE WEST, the former Broadway star and Hollywood icon who died in 1980.
• • Comedy and entertainment are hallmarks of the popular culture of the United States of America. The U.S. Postal Department has befittingly honored screen legends Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Lucille Ball, James Cagney, Alfred Hitchcock, and Humphrey Bogart by issuing commemorative stamps depicting these adults.
• • However, none of these individuals wrote their own plays. MAE WEST wrote "Diamond Lil" and many other plays that were staged on Broadway.
• • None of these individuals wrote their own movie dialogue. MAE WEST wrote all of her own dialogue for most of the nine films she appeared in.
• • None of these individuals can match MAE WEST when it comes to numerous original quotes. Her witty sayings are often quoted in books and newspaper articles to this day.
• • Please approve the issuance of a US postal stamp commemorating a legendary American talent MAE WEST (1893 - 1980).
• • Source of this sample letter: Mae West Blog — http://MaeWest.blogspot.com
• • • • The Stamp Selection Process • • • •
• • Ideas for stamp subjects that meet CSAC criteria may be addressed to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee; Stamp Development; US Postal Service; 475 L’Enfant Plaza SW, Room 3300, Washington, DC 20260 — 3501.
• • The Committee only reads hard-copy letters. No faxes, no emails.
• • Subjects should be submitted at least three years in advance of the proposed date of issue to allow sufficient time for consideration and for design and production, if the subject is approved.
• • Submit stamp proposals in writing to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee. This allows everyone the same opportunity to suggest a new stamp subject. All proposals are reviewed by the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee regardless of how they are submitted, i.e., stamped cards, letters or petitions.
• • After a proposal is determined not to violate criteria set by CSAC, research is done on the proposed stamp subject. Each new proposed subject is listed on the CSAC's agenda for its next meeting. The CSAC considers all new proposals and takes one of two actions: it may reject the new proposal or it may set it aside for consideration for future issuance. If set aside for consideration, the subject remains "under consideration" in a file maintained for the Committee.
• • An "I Love Lucy" stamp appeared in the Postal Service's "Celebrate the Century" series. A new Lucille Ball stamp [released in 2001] is the seventh in a "Legends of Hollywood" series. Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Cagney, Alfred Hitchcock, and Humphrey Bogart are among other Hollywood icons who have been featured.
• • Actor Karl Malden had been a long-time member of the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee, which helps choose stamp subjects and designs.
• • Who • • Why • • What • •
• • As of March 2001, these were the Committee's Stamp Subject Selection Criteria:
• • It is a general policy that U.S. postage stamps and stationery primarily will feature American or American-related subjects.
• • No living person shall be honored by portrayal on U.S. postage.
• • Commemorative stamps or postal stationery items honoring individuals usually will be issued on or in conjunction with significant anniversaries of their birth, but no postal item will be issued sooner than ten years after the individual's death. The only exception to the ten-year rule is the issuance of stamps honoring deceased U.S. presidents. They may be honored with a memorial stamp on the first birth anniversary following death.
• • Events of historical significance shall be considered for commemoration only on anniversaries in multiples of 50 years.
• • No stamp shall be considered for issuance if one treating the same subject has been issued in the past 50 years. The only exceptions to this rule are traditional themes such as national symbols and holidays.
• • On 18 September 1980 • •
• • It was on 18 September 1980 that, most unfortunately, Mae West suffered a second stroke which left her right side paralyzed.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said this: "It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then — — just so long as you don't break any."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A fascinating article about gender mentioned Mae West.
• • Dr. Birute Regine writes: Some women use the negative gender schemas against them to their advantage. These women play along as if they don’t know what’s going on, when in reality they are five steps ahead of the guys. As Mae West put it, “Brains are an asset, if you hide them.”...
• • Source: Article: "Why Is It That Women Are Seen As Less Competent?" written by Birute Regine, Ed.D. for Forbes; posted on 14 September 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2057th 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's friend Roderick McDowall was born in London in the month of September — — on 17 September 1928.
• • In May 1968, at the West Hollywood home of George Cukor, there was a dinner party and Greta Garbo [18 September 1905 — 15 April 1990] and Mae West met for the first time. This small private gathering also included Gayelord Hauser, Frey Brown, and Roddy McDowall, who was 39-turning-40. Asked about it later, Roddy McDowall claims he felt rather awestruck in the presence of two screen icons, thus he barely uttered a word.
• • McDowall's film roles included Cornelius and Caesar in the "Planet of the Apes" series. He died of lung cancer in Los Angeles on 3 October 1998. He was 70.
• • Roddy as Rene Valentine • •
• • Perhaps you recall seeing the lanky Englishman when he played the female impersonator Rene Valentine in "Mae West" [1982], a made for tv bio-pic. McDowall also received credit for [gulp!] "Technical Details" — — which is astonishing since his choices in his scenes with the Brooklyn bombshell all seem false.
• • Moreover, his rift on the elegant Julian Eltinge misses the point; Roddy McDowall looks more like one of Cinderella's ugly step-sisters than the enigmatic Broadway star of "The Fascinating Widow."
• • Shouldn't someone have noticed that the bawdy over-the-top drag queen Mae most adored was the campy cut-up Bert Savoy — — and not the inscrutable Mr. Eltinge?
• • Anyway, one happy fella was Richard F. Shepard, whose New York Times review said: "Roddy McDowall is persuasive as a female impersonator who puts Miss West on the path to stardom by fixing her stage personality and appearance; he is almost scholarly and calm, the lifelong friend and confidant" [Richard F. Shepard, New York Times, 14 August 1984].
• • Directed by Lee Phillips, the 1982 bio-pic "Mae West" also featured Ann Jillian in the title role, a far too handsome James Brolin as Jim Timony, et al.
• • On 17 September 1933 • •
• • Portraits of Mae West were featured on this date in a special black & white supplement that was included in the Sunday issues of The Philadelphia Record. This section always secured pictures of the top Hollywood stars.
• • In mid-September 2005 • •
• • After New York City playwright LindaAnn Loschiavo hosted a seance for Mae West on 17 August 2005, presided over by an East Coast psychic attached to Lily Dale, TwoFour contacted her requesting her participation in their American broadcast. "Dead Famous: Ghostly Encounters," a British paranormal reality television series featuring skeptic Gail Porter and clairvoyant Chris Fleming, began scouting haunted locations linked to the Brooklyn bombshell based on Loschiavo's research. As Porter and Fleming tried to secure the consent for access to some of these places (such as the Royale Theatre where Mae and Texas Guinan held seances backstage), the producers set up the first shoot with Loschiavo on 2 October 2005 in the West Ninth Street drag cabaret that inspired Mae to write "The Drag" in 1926.
• • Explore this link to "Dead Famous: Mae West" [Part 1]. The footage features LindaAnn Loschiavo in a dashing silk hat by Eric Javits (whose grandmother made millinery for Mae), Chris Fleming and Gail Porter.
http://videonews.allinww.com/story.php?title=dead-famous-mae-west-part-15
• • Act I of "Courting Mae West" opens in this Greenwich Village drag cabaret, and dramatizes the legal troubles that will complicate the life and career of Mae West during the Prohibition Era.
• • "Courting Mae West" will be seen next in Australia on 28 January 2012. The very talented Robert Chuter will direct the cast.
• • Come up and see Mae down under, mate:
http://www.theatrealive.com.au/Whats_On/Courting_Mae_West
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said this: "I speak two languages — — English and body."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A fascinating and well-researched article about the various East Coast hucksters who specialized in "selling" the Brooklyn Bridge to gullible tourists mentioned Mae West.
• • John Kominicki writes: Sales of the Brooklyn Bridge dropped dramatically in the 1920s, when Ellis Island officials started handing out cards warning immigrants that public infrastructure in America was not for sale. The con had passed fully into the culture by 1937, when Mae West starred as the flim-flamstress and would-be bridge seller Peaches O’Day in the comedy “Every Day’s a Holiday.” ...
• • Source: Article: "Sewer deal has a familiar smell to it" written by John Kominicki for Long Island Business News; posted on 15 September 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2056th 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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Russ Powell worked with MAE WEST in the motion picture "Go West Young Man" [1936]. 
• • Born in Indianapolis, Indiana in the month of September — — on 16 September 1875 — — the rotund fellow wound up in his very first silent flickers in 1915. The 40-year-old was cast in "The Fashion Shop" as a fat customer and then in "The Boob and the Baker" as a fat man. The busy bit parts player found work in more than 200 feature films from 1915 — 1943.
• • Paramount Pictures used him as Andy, a country farmer mending a fence in "Go West Young Man" but more often he was seen onscreen as a fat chef, a cannibal chief, a hefty dinner guest, or as an all-purpose counterman.
• • Russ Powell died in Los Angeles on 28 November 1950. He was 75.
• • On 16 September 1928 • •
• • "Those Queens will sell the show . . . ."• • Mae West's play "Pleasure Man" opened on a Monday evening on 16 September 1928 at the Bronx Opera House. It was scheduled to play for a week there, and then have a short run in Queens at the Boulevard Theatre before opening on Broadway at the Biltmore on 1 October 1928. There was an advance sale of $200,000.
• • Jack Conway gave it a camp review in Variety, praising the 2 1/2 hour show with a gay theme, saying that "All the Queens are in it" and "The whole thing is backstage stuff and surefire. Those Queens will sell the show if nothing else does . . . ." In fact, the police stole the show.
• • The play "Courting Mae West" dramatizes the raid at the Biltmore on 1 October 1928 at the beginning of Act II.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said this: "Women like a man with a past — — but they prefer a man with a present.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A Los Angeles journalist mentioned Mae West in a recent column.
• • Elizabeth Snead leads off her piece with this quote: Mae West once said, "It's not the men in my life that counts. It's the life in my men." Madonna could say pretty much say the same. ...
• • Source: Article: "The men (and women) of Madonna" written by Elizabeth Snead, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer for the L.A. Times; posted on 15 September 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2055th 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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On 14 September 1931, MAE WEST's Harlem drama "The Constant Sinner" opened on Broadway.
• • Mickey's Clock Stopped on 14 September 2006 • • 
• • Born in Budapest, Hungary on 6 January 1926, handsome Mickey Hargitay became a bodybuilder. The muscular six-footer was a notable member of the ensemble cast of Mae West's stage show during the 1950s.
• • Time Magazine reported, "Mae's troupe proved invigorating even for jaded Las Vegas," and the act subsequently toured the US for a few years. One of the gorgeous chorus-boys who was hired early on was the former "Mr Universe" Mickey Hargitay who, in 1956, would become romantically involved with the blonde sexpot Jayne Mansfield.
• • When Jayne Mansfield and Mae West began to fight over Hargitay, and Mansfield made some publicly disparaging remarks about West's age, the ensuing uproar resulted in Novak's punching Hargitay — — the only occasion on which Novak made the headlines. An intensely private person, he managed for the rest of West's life to stay out of the limelight.
• • Mickey Hargitay died in Los Angeles of multiple myeloma in the month of September — — on 14 September 2006.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said this: "I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?"
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Actress Elizabeth Banks mentioned Mae West during her most recent interview.
• • Parade staff wrote about the comedic inspirations Elizabeth Banks had noted: "Women have always been successful in comedy — — going back to Mae West and even Katharine Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine and Lucy Ball. There's a very strong tradition of women in comedy. I feel like there might be a surge happening now, but there's a very long heritage of comedians who came before the ladies who are doing so well now." ...
• • Source: Article: "Elizabeth Banks: Women Take Care of Everyone But Themselves" written by Parade.com and reprinted by the Kitsap Sun; posted on 13 September 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2053rd 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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On 13 September 1953, this image of MAE WEST appeared in The Los Angeles Times.
• • On 13 September 1969 • •
• • Michael Sarne was writing a lot to Mae West during the autumn of 1969 as he developed the cinema version of "Myra Breckinridge." In a letter dated 13 September 1969, he asked Mae to hurry up and get her comments on the revised screenplay to him as soon as possible. He promised he was giving more thought to other ways to involve her character Leticia Van Allen in the central plot. Mae West, of course, got top billing.
• • Lasky's Lucky 13 • •
• • More than anything, vaudevillian Mae West wanted to be "in the legit" — — on The Gay White Way — — and Jesse Lasky gave her an opportunity.
• • In 1911, Jesse Lasky opened the "Folies-Bergere," a plush theatre restaurant on West 46th Street and he cast a pretty 18-year-old Mae to appear in the cabaret with a comedy duo, Cook and Lorenz. The extravaganza was produced by Ned Wayburn, Mae's dancing teacher and was called "A La Broadway."
• • Born in San Francisco, California in the month of September — — on 13 September 1880 — — Jesse Lasky went on to be the founder of the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company, which later merged with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players to form the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, one of the major studios of the silent era.
• • Quite versatile, Jesse Lasky started out as a reporter and then made failed plans to join the Alaska Gold Rush. Also a talented musician, Lasky then tried his hand at being a bandleader in Hawaii. Upon his return to the United States, he and his sister Blanche teamed up to play the coronet in vaudeville; this led to his becoming a vaudeville promoter.
• • In 1913 he and his brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish (who later became Sam Goldwyn) formed the first studio with Goldfish functioning as president and Lasky as the vice-president. In 1914, their first film, The Squaw Man, became a great hit and an industry milestone in that it was the first epic western; its success also helped make Hollywood a center for filmmaking. Eventually his Famous Players-Lasky company merged and merged again until it became Paramount, another major studio in American cinema history.
• • Perhaps thirteen was his special number. Born on the 13th of September, Jesse Lasky died on 13 January 1958 at age 77.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said this to an Australian reporter: "I like my sexes stable."
• • Mae West wrote this: “The wages of sin are sables and a film contract.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Mae West was mentioned in connection with a new show on Al Jolson, with whom she performed.
• • Cynthia Citron writes: Al Jolson defends himself by rattling off some of the many other performers who worked in blackface, such as Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, George Jessel, Buster Keaton, and even the young Shirley Temple. He might also have mentioned Mae West, Gene Kelly, Will Rogers, the Marx Brothers, George Burns, among many others. ...
• • Source: Article: "Jolson sings again!" written by Cynthia Citron for Examiner.com; posted on 12 September 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2052nd 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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Come up and see MAE WEST in "Fabulous," which begins this week in Los Angeles. 
• • This fascinating display commemorates the past decade of collecting at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising [FIDM] Museum. Curators have arranged a colorful exhibit that includes 175 donated and purchased garments and accessories worn by women, men, and children spanning 1800 to 2010. Highlights from two centuries of fashion are: platform heels worn by Mae West, Austrian composer Joseph Haydn's walking stick, an evening dress designed by Halston in 1974, a luxurious embroidered court suit worn by composer Johann Hummel, a Redfern court gown with regulation eleven–foot–long train, and a museum–commissioned lace peacock motif Alexander McQueen couture gown. This array of historical court costumes and documents, high fashion items, accessories, jewelry, and textiles has been photographed for their fully illustrated 375–page catalogue. "Fabulous!" is free and open to the public.
• • WHEN: Exhibition runs from 13 September 2011 — 17 December 2011
• • WHERE: FIDM Museum: 919 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90015; T. 213-623-5821
• • On 12 September 1993 • •
• • It was on 12 September 1993 that one Mae West fan's comment was printed in The New York Times.
• • Mae West's New York • •
• • To the Editor:
• • Mae West would have undoubtedly loved "Peel Me a Grape" (Aug. 22), Ron Alexander's account of her 100th-birthday celebration. However, some surprisingly omitted sidelights on the Mae West tour of New York need to be added. Mae's Broadway landmarks include the former Paramount Theater building, where the film "Night After Night" startled the world with her "goodness had nothing to do with it" rejoinder. And why not a note about the Biltmore Theater, where Mae tried to open a little opus called "Pleasure Man" but was restrained because of the then-licentious subject matter of gayness?
• • In reviewing one of Mae's later performances on Broadway, her revival of "Diamond Lil" at the Coronet Theater (another omission), Brooks Atkinson, the critic for The New York Times, called Mae West "the goddess of sex." She was one of a kind, and there's no one quite like her today.
• • Letter was written by Harold Smith of Quogue, N.Y.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West wrote this: "Sex is emotion in motion."
• • Mae West wrote this: “I was in a tight spot, but I managed to wriggle out of it.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Mae West gave interviews in England.
• • London's Evening Standard critic Milton Shulman [1 September 1913 — 24 May 2004] spoke to Mae in person in 1948 about her theatrical training as a young stock player. Mae discussed being cast as the neglected child Mary in "Ten Nights in a Bar-Room" as well as the princeling in "Richard III." But as she grew up, her sex appeal took over.
• • Mae West told Milton: "It wasn't until I got to Hollywood that I realized just what everybody was talking about. Then some psychologists told me I had this appeal physically and mentally — — in my eyes, my voice, my body movements." She felt the censors were especially hard on her. "I had to do most of my acting with my eyes," explained Miss West, rather plaintively. ...
• • Source: "How to Be a Celebrity" by Milton Shulman
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2051st 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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One native New Yorker was MAE WEST — — and she would have been horrified by the attack on the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001.
• • Today is the tenth anniversary of this day of infamy and New York City is in mourning. Keep us in your prayers.
• • 11 September 1933 • • • • It was on 11 September 1933 that Mae West wrote an enthusiastic letter of encouragement to certain American theatres to help promote her new star-turn "I'm No Angel."
• • This letter was mailed to the Manager, Affiliated Theatres, Mavins Theatre, Reseve, Louisiana.
• • Wrote Mae: "There never was any kind of dame, anywhere, that worried more about her figure than a showman does about his! I mean the one he reads and either weeps or sings about at the end of the week. . . ."
• • "I'm No Angel" grossed $2.2 million.
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• • Mae West wrote this: "I deny that the said play "The Pleasure Man" is indecent or immoral. I deny that it is in any sense objectionable. It is good, clean, wholesome dramatic entertainment. The acts of the defendants are arbitrary and tyrannical. The threats to arrest the members of the cast and to arrest me again and again are made for the purpose of demoralizing the cast, so that no performance of the play will be given. ..."• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • In an article about Twitter and how to tweet, Mae West's name was mentioned.
• • Notching up around 200 million tweets from 200 million users worldwide, Twitter certainly has generated a lot of hot air — — but most of that has been, as Tubridy would put it, 'pub conversation' — — in other words, utterly forgettable and pointless. Succinctness is an art form — — and one which only the likes of Mae West and Oscar Wilde have ever successfully mastered. ...
• • Source: Article: "Was Ryan right to say goodbye to twitter?" written by Staff for The Independent (Ireland): posted on 11 August 2011• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2050th 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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