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• Cal State San Marcos History Professor Paints In-depth Portrait of Mae West’s Cultural Importance in New Biography.
• This Friday, August 17, marks what would have been Mae West’s 108th birthday. Famous for the invitation, "Come up and see me sometime," West has captivated the imagination of generations. ...
• Sifting through previously untapped sources, Jill Watts, an associate professor of history at California State University San Marcos, draws a provocative portrait of the film legend in her new biography Mae West: An Icon in Black and White (Oxford University Press; August 23, 2001). This fascinating study is the first comprehensive, interpretive account of Mae West's life and work. Watts traces West's early years spent in the Brooklyn subculture of boxers and underworld figures, and follows her journey through burlesque, vaudeville, Broadway and, finally, Hollywood, where she quickly became one of the big screen's most popular—and colorful—stars.
• Exploring West's penchant for contradiction and her carefully perpetuated paradoxes, Watts argues that West borrowed heavily from black culture, music, dance and humor, creating a subversive voice for herself by which she artfully challenged society and its assumptions regarding race, class and gender. Viewing West as a trickster, Watts suggests that by appropriating for her character the black tradition of double-speak and "signifying," West was hinting at her own African-American ancestry and the phenomenon of a black woman passing for white.
• Watts began her study of West following a discussion she had with students in a class at Cal State San Marcos. After watching a clip from the movie "She Done Him Wrong," which Watts shows in a class about the Depression of the 1930s, the students began discussing West's use of blues music and her possible connections to African-American culture.
• Watts’ quest to better understand West led her to the actress’s novel, The Constant Sinner. ... “But then I saw a different level to it, where Mae West seemed to be talking about things closer to her. ...
• “I hope people who read the book will appreciate Mae’s intelligence,” says Watts. ... ” But, just as important, contends Watts, is the way in which West’s life and performance reveal how American culture is so deeply rooted in African-American traditions.
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• "This Is Living" is a fine example of Mae West at their stunning best. ... But Mae West take off from that point rather than emulate in a derivative tone & the influences that we hear are only but a springboard for the bands enigmatic shadow .
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• Mae was in the beauty shop having her hair done. she said to the operator, "How do I get rid of the white flakes, falling on my clothes when I brush my hair? The operator said have you tried head and shoulders Mae?.
• Mae replys, "How do I give shoulders?".

• Mae West Quotations ============================================================ Collected by: Richard Wanderman richard@ldresources. ... -- Mae West So many men, so little time. -- Mae West It's not the men in my life; it's the life in my men. -- Mae West Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. -- Mae West I only like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you. -- Mae West I've been in more laps than a napkin. -- Mae West I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West He who hesitates is a damned fool. -- Mae West She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. -- Mae West Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

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• Mae West was born in the 19th Century, and though her enduring fame was in film, she remained a product of the vaudeville circuit. ... But West would contend it was the world that was finally catching up with her. ...
• West wrote and starred in her own theatrical plays. ... They would shut down her plays and throw West in jail. But West understood the old saw about no bad publicity. ... But when Hollywood could no longer resist West's growing fame, making her the highest paid performer in the world, West found herself emerging in film just as the Hays Code began wielding its spurious moral authority. ... Billy Wilder offered West the lead in "Sunset Boulevard," the kind of serious acting role she had never been offered. West reportedly refused the mere suggestion of herself as a has-been. Though it was the fictional Norma Desmond who claimed she was still big, it was the pictures that had gotten small, the line seems tailor made for Mae West. ...
• Co-starring West and W. ... Fields, it is among the most famous, if not the best, of West's films. ... Mae West played one note, played it well, and did nothing in public or private to go against her image. ... The play "Dirty Blonde," written by and starring Claudia Shear, is a wonderfully entertaining theatrical love letter to West, with just enough time and distance to portray her as both a genuine hero and cultural misfit. ...

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• Working from a photograph of Hollywood star Mae West, I designed the installation of a whole apartment, including my famous Mae West Lips Sofa, of which several examples were made. ...

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• (November 20, 2003) - A modern love story plays out with the aid of Hollywood legend Mae West as the TheatreWorks wraps up its 2003 season with Claudia Shear's hit Broadway comedy, DIRTY BLONDE, opening December 5. ...
• Jo and Charlie are two lonely New Yorkers who meet at the gravesite of their idol, Mae West. ... As these two lost souls hesitantly begin to fall in love, the audience sees their relationship play out against the backdrop of West's own fascinating and groundbreaking career - from early vaudeville and Broadway scandal to movie stardom and eventual self-parody. ...
• DIRTY BLONDE moves seamlessly between the past and present by mixing occasional song and dance numbers from West's memorable stage and film roles and other anecdotes from her life with the budding relationship between Jo and Charlie. West's "against all odds" success provides inspiration for the unlikely lovebirds, and her taboo-busting sexuality offers a fitting commentary on their own relationship insecurities.
• "Mae West ruled the silver screen decades ago," said director Jane Farnol (Kent), "Even today her mystique still lingers. DIRTY BLONDE lets us peak beneath the bombshell to meet the woman that was Mae West -- a woman who became a captive of the caricature she herself created. ...
• "Who couldn't love a line, 'When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better,'" said actress Susan Pettibone who plays the roles of Jo and Mae. "Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of Mae West her is determination throughout her life. ... Through sheer force of will Mae West created one of the century's most memorable icons. ...
• Filling in the numerous other roles are Jonathan Ross (Thomaston), playing Charlie and seven others, and Steven Oliveri (Brewster, NY), who plays the important men in Mae's life - nine of them including husband Frank Wallace and performer Ed Hearn, as well as providing the show's musical accompaniment. ...
• In his review for The New York Times, Ben Brantley hailed DIRTY BLONDE as a "smart, tough, and tender-hearted comedy" and went on to call it "a wonderfully warm-blooded new play about the importance of being and worshipping Mae West. ...
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• Mae West dominated the 1930's as a sultry, sexy screen queen, although she was neither pretty nor conventional looking.
• Although West's films (many of which she wrote) were filled with sexual innuendo, and despite the fact that she tended to surround herself with good looking musclemen in her private life, Golden Age Hollywood insiders claim that Mae was always more interested in power than sex. ...
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• West was an original (although elements of her act and persona have been copied by the likes of Bette Midler, Jayne Mansfield and Fran Drescher ever since). ...
• West was a ground-breaker, and someone who understood people all too well - the plays she wrote "The Drag" (with an all-gay cast) and "Sex", were named specifically because she knew the adverse publicity and right-wing outrage would be better than a million dollars of advertising - and she was right. Prepared to suffer for what she believed in - West went to prison more than once for refusing to back down to censorship laws. ... You don't expect people in black and white films to behave like Mae West. ...
• With a penchant for burly muscular working-class men, prize-fighters and the like, Mae was reticient about her off-screen romances, preferring to keep them as private as possible. ...
• For Mae, her weakness was ultimately her undying belief in her own legend as an ultra-attractive sexual tempress. ... It was rumoured that 63-year old Mae and Mr Universe were sharing more than just a professional relationship. Mae called Mansfield a cheap blonde and Mansfield responded by asking when anyone was going to take a picture of West in a bikini. It all continued in this nasty manner until Mansfield was decapitated in a car accident in her 30s, and Mae came out with "She was so full of evil that one day her head just popped off and exploded. " But this unpleasantness apart, Mae West remains a fascinating study - she talked like a straight man and had the sexual appetite of a gay man, but she never lost her femininity or her incisive sense of humour. ...
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• Mae West's film "Klondike Annie" as described by Ramona Curry. "The film narrative opens in San Francisco's China town, where West's character is held captive as the mistress of a Chinese night club owner, Chan Lo. ...
• Ramona Curry maps out the negotiation process between MPPDA and the producers of "Klondike Ann" in her article "Mae West as Censored Commodity: The case of "Klondike Annie", Cinema Journal 31, No. ...
• The initial screening of "Klondike Annie" elicited rigorous monitoring from the PCA (Production Code Administration) for its implications of interracial sex, representations of torture and unpunished murder (which undermined the codes principle of "compensating moral values"), and for casting West as a prostitute. ...
• Concern about the sexual behavior of West's character emerges as a prime issue from the earliest correspondence. A letter at the outset of production to Paramount liaison John Hammell to Will Hays, then visiting in California promised, "The ending of our story will be a romance between West and one of the characters in our picture, and it will indicate for the future a normal life and nothing that will bring condemnation from the most scrupulous(June 29, 1935).
• Hay's response a week later expressed concern about the sexual morality of West's character: "We assume that there will be no suspicion of loose or illicit sex relationships between Miss West and the Chinese gambler or any of the characters in your story; rather as is suggested in the discussion here, it will definitely be indicated that the woman whom Miss West represents is basically good" (July 2, 1935).
• In memos written between September and October 1935 (the film's production went from June to December 1935), Joseph Breen required a number of changes in the script and in song lyrics and repeatedly cautioned the studio about maintaining decency in costuming and camera framing and especially in West's style delivery in "Klondike Annie". ... For example, West was prohibited from saying, "I'm sorry I can't see you in private," while looking the young detective (Phillip Reed) up and down; other West lines that Breen marked for deletion included "Men are at their best when women are at their worst".
• Source: Ramona Curry, "Mae West as Censored Commodity: The Case of "Klondike Annie", Cinema Journal 31, No. ...

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• Born on August 17, 1893, Mae West (Mary Jane West ) would become the first :sex clown" on film. ... When Mae was only five years old when she began on the vaudevillian stage and by the age of 14 she was being billed as "The Baby Vamp. ...
• In 1926, Mae wrote, produced and directed the Broadway show, "Sex," which led her to be arrested for obscenity. ...
• With Diamond Lil (1928), West became the toast of Broadway and in 1932 she signed with Paramount. ... " The first film to star West, She Done Hime Wrong (1933), the film version of Diamond Lil, broke box-office records and saved Paramount from selling out to MGM. The Hays office brought in a new censorship code in 1934, largely to combat the code of the West, but she led them a merry chase through several more blockbusters: I'm No Angel (1933), Belle of the Nineties (1934), Goin' to Town (1935) and Klondike Annie (1936). Her popularity declined in the late 30s and, after the failure of The Heat's On (1943), (the first West film she didn't script herself) she returned to the stage and, later, the nightclub circuit. ...
• West skirted the delicate sensibilities of Hollywood censors with sexual innuendo and double entendre and her witty observations were as widely quoted as Ben Franklin bromides: "It's better to be looked over than overlooked"; "I used to be Snow White but it drifted," etc. Although she cultivated the image of the "tough broad," West always conveyed a curious Victorian innocence coupled with a winking, self-effacing amusement at her own preposterous creation. Her popularity reached such peaks that sailors were inspired to name their inflatable life jackets after her overemphasized 43-inch "assets," ensuring West a place, like no other actress to date, in Webster's Dictionary.

• Name: Mae West, "Klondike Annie".
• Artist: Mae West.
• Description of Artwork:  Mae West's film "Klondike Annie" as described by Ramona Curry: "The film narrative opens in San Francisco's China town, where West's character is held captive as the mistress of a Chinese night club owner, Chan Lo. ...
• " Ramona Curry maps out the negotiation process between MPPDA and the producers of "Klondike Ann" in her article "Mae West as Censored Commodity: The case of "Klondike Annie", Cinema Journal 31, No. ... The initial screening of "Klondike Annie" elicited rigorous monitoring from the PCA (Production Code Administration) for its implications of interracial sex, representations of torture and unpunished murder (which undermined the codes principle of 'compensating moral values'), and for casting West as a prostitute. ... Concern about the sexual behavior of West's character emerges as a prime issue from the earliest correspondence. A letter at the outset of production to Paramount liaison John Hammell to Will Hays, then visiting in California promised, 'The ending of our story will be a romance between West and one of the characters in our picture, and it will indicate for the future a normal life and nothing that will bring condemnation from the most scrupulous. ... Hay's response a week later expressed concern about the sexual morality of West's character: 'We assume that there will be no suspicion of loose or illicit sex relationships between Miss West and the Chinese gambler or any of the characters in your story; rather as is suggested in the discussion here, it will definitely be indicated that the woman whom Miss West represents is basically good. ... In memos written between September and October 1935 (the film's production went from June to December 1935), Joseph Breen required a number of changes in the script and in song lyrics and repeatedly cautioned the studio about maintaining decency in costuming and camera framing and especially in West's style delivery in "Klondike Annie". ... For example, West was prohibited from saying, 'I'm sorry I can't see you in private,' while looking the young detective (Phillip Reed) up and down; other West lines that Breen marked for deletion included 'Men are at their best when women are at their worst'. ...
• Source: Ramona Curry, "Mae West as Censored Commodity: The Case of "Klondike Annie," Cinema Journal 31, No. ...

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