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Mae West: When Ringo Starred

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It's time to wish MAE WEST's co-star Ringo Starr a happy birthday.
• • Born in the month of July — on 7 July 1940 — in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, Ringo Starr played the role of Laslo Karolny, a European movie director and the fourth of Marlo ...

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Mae West: Dramatic

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MAE WEST would, no doubt be capable of delivering "curdling melodrama," predicted the publication Hollywood Citizen News in its issue dated 17 June 1932.
• • Correspondent Elizabeth Yeaman thrilled her readers by announcing, "Excitement will pick ...

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Mae West: Mighty "Afrodainty"

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How many children would recognize MAE WEST in an amusing parody of a Greek hero penned for the elementary school set?
• • Kirkus Reviews did not get too enthusiastic over J.P. Homer's The Thesoddy [authored by J.D. Peterson], published by Aventine...

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Mae West: Spirit of New York

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MAE WEST, always fighting City Hall and the censors, posed as Lady Liberty on a few occasions.
• • In her 1934 film "Belle of the Nineties," Mae West was first outfitted as New York's Lady of the Harbor. This prompted critic George Jean Nathan to ...

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Mae West: Independence

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MAE WEST had many fans in the military.
• • Her 1926 play "Sex" featured actors clad as sailors.
• • A flotation device was famously nicknamed "the Mae West."
• • Mae never liked to make her humor political nor bipartisan. For all that, Mae West w...

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Mae West: In the Groove

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Mae West said: "No. I won't be in it. What would I be doing in a lonely hearts' club?"
• • Naturally, Britain's Fab Four wrote personally to the Hollywood vamp, who then agreed to join Fred Astaire, Marlon Brando, Karl Marx, and others on the cove...

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Mae West: When I'm Bad . . .

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The best way to behave, MAE WEST used to say, is to misbehave. Doesn't it seems like the current crop of California starlets had taken the bad girl oath?
• • Tabloids are proclaiming, however, that the year of the blonde bad girl is over. And that...

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Mae West: Among Violets

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A MAE WEST fan, British socialite Violet Trefusis had extraordinary bad girl genes all her own.
• • Born in Great Britain during the month of June [6 June 1894], sweet Violet Keppel was the daughter of the courtesan Alice Keppel, a mistress of Kin...

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Mae West: Playing and Spinning

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MAE WEST did not do a lot of TV nor radio. However, a long-playing record — "Original Radio Broadcasts" [Mark 56 Records, 643] released in 1974 — contains an interesting sampling of Westian witchery.
• • Naturally, this compilation includes the in...

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Mae West: in June 1932

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The June 1932 issue of Vanity Fair featured MAE WEST and Queen Marie of Romania in a spoof dialogue — illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias.
• • Impossible Interviews — no.7
• • Marie of Roumania vs Mae West
DOWAGER-QUEEN MARIE: . . . I feel so neglec...

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