Mae West: Warren's Blazin' Blondes

MAE WEST will be on the lips and on the hips of Maggie Worsdale this weekend.
• • At 2 pm on Saturday, 14 December jazz singer and actress Maggie Worsdale will pay tribute to Mae West, Marlene Dietrich, and Sophie Tucker in a show called “Blazin’ Blondes.”  The program, 75 minutes of sinfully good singing and roisterous romping, is geared toward adults only.
• • Where: The Warren Township Library in Warren,  NJ. Free admission.
• • Registration is required. Phone 908-754-5554 ext 64 to register. 
• • Tell them you heard about it on the Mae West Blog.
• • On Thursday, 12 December 2013 • •
• • A silver cigarette case signed by Mae West will be sold by Holt's today.
• • Holt's said: "Forces sweet heart and American icon Mae West met Borgan Mogilinicki in 1941 on one of her many 'moral-boosting' tours and signed his sterling silver cigarette-case. The signature has been declared authentic by the Imperial War Museum and a copy of the verification letter accompanies the lot in."
• • Holt's added: The sale will take place at Holt's Princess Louise House, 190 Hammersmish Road, London on Thursday, 12 December 2013. Don't miss out.
• • Mae West on NBC, Sunday, 12 December 1937 • •
• • Perhaps no other radio segment of The Chase and Sanborn Hour has sparked more commentary than the Sunday, December 12th, 1937 broadcast starring Mae West, the 44-year-old movie queen, who usually hid the fact that she was unable to read a script without eyeglasses.
• • Writer Arch Obler on Mae being very nearsighted • •

• • "Now one thing the powers-that-be forgot," recalled Arch Oboler, "that in those days, unlike today, there were three things that an actress could not do. One was to have a child out of wedlock. Two, she could not swear. And three, she could not wear glasses."
• • Arch Obler added:  "It was thought terrible for an actress to be seen in spectacles. Well, Miss Mae West, having all the usual good sense of all of us, did not wear her glasses during the rehearsals so she, being very nearsighted never saw my script. She bluffed her way through. It wasn’t until air time that she walked on stage waving these glasses, put them on . . . and for the first time saw the script. The result was a disaster. What she did to ‘Adam and Eve’ the Arabs had never done so miserably."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • You should have seen Mae West practicing rope-twirling in the wide-open spaces of the Paramount lot! "It's a good idea," murmured the hair-patting, hip-swinging blonde. "I've never had much trouble roping in my men, but this ought to make it even easier!"
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I'm not just an actress. I'm a playwright, I produce and direct my own shows and look after every little detail."
• • Mae West said: "A man in the house is worth two in the street."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article about Hollywood movies mentioned Mae West "who is definitely still everyone's favorite actress."
• • Kate Dries wrote: Everyone's favorite actress and regular star of Tweet Beat, Bette Midler, is joining an HBO movie in development about the life of Mae West, who would have been a regular star of Tweet Beat if Tweet Beat had existed during her time and who is definitely still everyone's favorite actress. ...
• • Source: Article: "Bette Midler Is Your New Mae West" written by Kate Dries printed in Jezebel; published on Tuesday, 10 December 2013
• • By the Numbers • • 
• • The Mae West Blog was started nine years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2808th blog post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a newspaper or a magazine and/ or summaries, links, or photos, the mainstay of this blog is its fresh material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American original.

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Mae West: Violent Racketeers

The Hawk (Cary Grant) nails Lou (Mae West)

MAE WEST will be seen this week in New Jersey and you won't want to miss her.
• • The Cinema Series at Bridgeton Public Library presents a night of Pre-Code Hollywood featuring "She Done Him Wrong" [1933], starring Mae West and Cary Grant.
• • Here's how librarians in The Garden State, using the Joisey form of English, described it: "Based off of West’s Broadway hit 'Diamond Lil' and set during the Gay 1890s, 'She Done Him Wrong'’ concerns Lady Lou (West), a Bowery saloon singer who struggles against the violent racketeers of her workplace and the reformist tendencies of a Salvation Army director (Grant)."
• • "Based off of West’s Broadway hit" — — why the elegance of the phrasing is not unlike the eloquence of a William Shakespeare or a writer for "The Jersey Shore."  Incomparable, is it not?
• • Along with the screening of “She Done Him Wrong,’’ Cinema Series host Patrick Boyle will offer a brief talk on the history of the Motion Picture Production Code.
• • WHEN: 7 o'clock on Thursday, 5 December 2013
• • WHERE:  Bridgeton Public Library: 150 East Commerce Street, Bridgeton, New Jersey 08302; T.  (856) 451-2620
• • On Thursday, 2 December 1943 • •
• • Critic Guy Savage wrote: "The Heat’s On" (a.k.a. "Tropicana") is a sly knock at censorship and how it affects the entertainment industry. Broadway legend Fay Lawrence (Mae West) is in "Indiscretions" — — a show destined to flop — — until producer Tony Ferris (William Gaxton) gets the bright idea to rustle up free publicity on an indecency issue. ...
• • On Saturday, 2 December 1989 • •
• • "Mae West, Wilt, and the King" was written by Ira Berkow, who had interviewed Charles Miron. This article appeared in The N.Y. Times on Saturday, 2 December 1989.
• • On Monday, 2 December 2013 • •
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 2800th post! Hooray!
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The Mae West picture, "Go West, Young Man," was completed right on schedule. Emanuel Cohen, president of Major Pictures, celebrated with a party at the studio upon the completion of the picture, which was directed by Henry Hathaway, with a cast headed by Warren William, Randolph Scott, Lyle Talbot, Alice Brady, Isabel Jewell, Elizabeth Patterson, Margaret Perry, and others.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "When I was eleven years old, there was a break. I wasn't one of those curly, cute, theatricals kids any longer."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Film Daily mentioned Mae West.
• • "Mae West's Personals" • •
• • Mae West is booked to make a personal appearance at the New York Paramount November 18, following a week in Chicago. Rudy Vallee is another booking to precede Miss West. ...
• • Source: Item in The Film Daily; published on Saturday, 17 October 1936 
• • By the Numbers • • 
• • The Mae West Blog was started nine years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2800th 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: Princeton Premiere

"MAE WEST to Open Summer Theatre" was the headline on Thursday, 5 June 1952 in a New Jersey newspaper.  Herbert Kenwith was announcing the world premiere of "Sextette," a play written by Frances Hope and adapted by the movie queen.

• • PRINCETON —- Herbert Kenwith, producer-director of Princeton Summer Theatre announces that he will open his sixth season of summer stock at the McCarterTheatre in Princeton, with Mae West in the world premiere of her new play "Sextette."  Beginning Monday night, June 23rd, the play will be shown for one week through Saturday night, June 28th.

• • "Sextette" was written by Frances Hope and adapted by Miss West to her own expressive idiom. It is a comedy in three acts with one set, the bridal suite of a swank London hotel. The play is modern and will have a cast of eight characters.  Miss West will play the role of a top movie star on her honeymoon with an English lord, who has only discovered after the wedding that he is the sixth in her sextette of husbands.  The action will give the star an opportunity to sing, also to wear a lavish wardrobe, one costume made entirely of sequins.

• • Miss West made her first appearance in summer stock last year at the Princeton Summer Theatre where, in "Diamond Lil,'' she broke all records for a week's engagement of a straight play in a summer theatre.  It was due to the happy circumstances surrounding her visit there last summer that Miss West chose Princeton for the premiere of her new play.

• • Source: Article: "Mae West to Open Summer Theatre" (on page 4) of the Raritan Township and Fords Beacon, published on Thursday, 5 June 1952.

• • Philo McCullough [16 June 1893 — 5 June 1981] • •

• • Born in San Bernardino, California on 16 June 1893, Philo McCullough launched his Tinseltown ambitions in 1914 and stayed in cinema country until 1969.  He was 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 in the month of June — — on 5 June 1981. He was 87.

• • On Thursday, 5 June 1975 • •

• • Stanley Musgrove's Log dated for Thursday, 5 June 1975 recalled Mae West explaining that her own method of birth control was a silk sponge tied to a string.  Mae also claimed she taught this barrier method to Fanny Brice who, until then, had several abortions. An odd conversation topic perhaps during June 1975, when Mae was 81, but there you have it.

• • On Saturday, 5 June 2010 in New Zealand • •

• • Mae West is still on the music charts.  Mae's rendition of "Mister Deep Blue Sea" charted on Saturday, 5 June 2010 on New Zealand's Jazz Music Chart at position 104.

• • In Her Own Words • •

• • When Mae arrived in Pasadena, California on The Chief in June 1932, she was unimpressed by the cities she passed during the train ride. "I'm a big girl from a big town," Mae told Los Angeles reporters, "coming to a little town."

• • Quote, Unquote • •

• • An article in The Catholic Herald focused on "a splendid Catholic" Mae West.

• • The Catholic Herald wrote: Mae West, the well-known film actress, is a fairy godmother to Catholic churches and charities, to which she regularly devotes large portions of her earnings.

• • So declares an American showdrummer, Jock Powell, who has recently been touring the United States with her.  In an interview with a C.H. reporter on Wednesday, Jock Powell described Mae West as "a splendid Catholic and a grand scout."

• • He said also that "she is a fine woman in the home.  . . ."

• • Source: Article: "Mae West: A Grand Scout" written by The Catholic Herald [UK] and printed on page 1; published on 3 February 1939

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2322nd 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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