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August 15, 1921: THE MIMIC WORLD OF 1921 opens with West cast as Cleopatra in a sketch titled “Shakespeare’s Garden of Love.” Watkins: But still there's the overriding fact that they were maids, she was in charge, and that these people in these films were portrayed as maids and that's the only way you really saw them. West, who arrived in England in mid-September, was among the very first wave of American stars to perform in British theatres after the Second World War. A few months earlier, Laurel and Hardy had made their triumphant post-war return visit – and after West, there would be a steady flow of Hollywood headliners crossing the Atlantic to perform up and down the country. Many of them, like West, were no longer making hit movies, but had found that they were still a box office draw for theatres. Man: ♪ I'm just a gigolo ♪ ♪ And everywhere I go ♪ ♪ People know the part I'm playing ♪ ♪ Paid for every dance ♪ Selling each romance ♪ ♪ Oh, what they're saying ♪ West: I realized there was nothing there inducing the women.

Cho: Her parodying that, and being this temptress, that's a very offensive thing to, you know, people who live and die by what the Bible says about women. Pierpont: And there was nobody who could write what she wanted to be unless she wrote it herself, this completely independent, sexy woman who didn't want to get married, who wasn't going to die in the last act, who wasn't going to follow some man into the desert. The following photograph illustrated Famous Women March in Review in Tableaux at the Institute of Arts, by Florence Taaffe, published in The Minneapolis Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota) of Saturday 4 th November 1933: I went up to the gambling tables a few weeks ago, and there was a tall, dark, and handsome croupier.October 4, 1918: SOMETIME opens at the Shubert Theater with West as a chorus girl; she introduces the shimmy dance to Broadway; the show closes in July 1919. West: The sex personality was the thing that made me and the thing they wanted, it was the thing the censors were after, you know.

Applause ] Thomas: She was 35 with 30 years of show biz experience of how to reach an audience, how to sing, how to dance, how to act, how to present personality. Von Teese: She always acted like she had lots of men around but I think that privately, I think there were certain men that really got her.November 1957: Publisher of CONFIDENTIAL magazine is fined for printing libelous articles about West and other stars. In an interview, Cattrall is jolly […] and effervescent, occasionally letting loose with a Samantha “come-up-and-see-me-sometime” inflection. And if you see Mae West give a line that might be licentious, you can cross it out or suggest a change.

You take one thing and add it to another and you get two. Two and two is four; and five'll get you ten if you know how to work it! This is the second Tom and Jerry short to win an award, and the second such instance during World War II. Cummings: Why, no, not at all. I’m just busy, that’s all. You see, we’re holding meetings in Jacobson’s Hall every evening. Any time you have a moment to spare, I’d be glad to have you drop in. You’re more than welcome. Sex and I have a lot in common. I don’t want to take any credit for inventing it—but I may say, in my own modest way, and in a manner of speaking—that I rediscovered it.” Erasure – Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 5 December 2018.

She said later that the only thing that bothered her about it was that she had to wear cotton underwear. Doherty: And if you can make a lot of money with Shirley Temple, and nobody's calling you a smut merchant, and you're not getting a lot of hassle from the Legion of Decency, and Mae West is controversial, and has her own vision of what film should be... West: Well, what are you gonna do about it? But West got the final word—more than a word, in fact. In her aptly titled 1959 memoir, “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It,” the icon explained her relationship with sex: Malachosky: She said, I would even have to put things in the scripts that would embarrass me, just to get them to approve what I really wanted.